Assistant Controller / Senior Corporate Accountant
Posted
Company Description:
Belle Aire Creations aspires to be focus-oriented, customer driven and positioned as the top-tier middle market fragrance solution. We consider ourselves to be a truly unique company whose employees will continue to complement existing personnel and represent the goals and values of the organization.
Business Industry:
Fragrances/Cosmetics/Personal Care/Candles
Job Title:
Assistant Controller / Senior Corporate Accountant
Employment Type:
Full-Time (Fully Onsite)
Reports to:
Director of Finance & People Operations
Job Description:
The Assistant Controller / Senior Corporate Accountant owns the production of Belle Aire Creations’ Givaudan corporate reporting and supports the monthly closure. The role exists to lift the heads-down parent-company reporting workload — BOFC/SAP packages, tax and CapEx schedules, treasury support, and the monthly financial package — off the Director of Finance & People Operations, who retains overall finance and HR leadership and remains the final reviewer and Givaudan relationship owner. This is a hands-on, deadline-driven technical accounting role for someone who can operate independently in a public-company subsidiary reporting environment.
Job Responsibilities:
Givaudan Corporate Reporting (Primary Focus)
- Prepare and submit monthly corporate reporting packages in Givaudan’s required format and timelines.
- Complete required SAP / BOFC reporting packages; maintain account mapping between the local general ledger and SAP/BOFC structures.
- Upload trial balances and financial data into FIM/BOFC systems and validate successful transmission and consolidation.
- Review and reconcile control packages for completeness, accuracy, and consistency with corporate standards.
- Prepare the monthly financial package with EBITDA adjustments in the Givaudan-provided format for the Director’s review.
- Prepare monthly AR aging analyses with commentary on past-due balances, collection strategy, and expected cash receipts.
- Respond to requests from regional and global finance teams within accelerated deadlines.
Tax, CapEx & Specialized Accounting
- Prepare tax reporting schedules, effective-tax-rate calculations, and tax packages (including support for BDO review).
- Prepare CapEx reporting packages, fixed-asset schedules, and workforce/FTE reporting.
- Handle intercompany, dropship, R&D, and royalty accounting, eliminations, and related reconciliations.
- Develop and maintain new GL structures and processes to support intercompany transactions and corporate reporting.
- Support IFRS application and reconcile differences between IFRS and U.S. GAAP.
Month-End Close Support
- Prepare and review journal entries, accruals, prepaid schedules, and account reconciliations.
- Support the monthly, quarterly, and annual closure and ensure ledgers are corporate-reporting ready.
- Assist with variance analysis against budget, forecast, and prior year.
- Help maintain internal controls and corporate accounting policies.
Treasury & Integration Support
- Support the treasury transition to Citibank and participation in the global cash-pooling structure.
- Assist with weekly payment files, large-vendor approval routing, and treasury reporting.
- Support acquisition / purchase accounting, opening balance sheet, and ongoing post-acquisition integration tasks.
Audit & Compliance Support
- Prepare schedules and support for annual financial statement and regulatory audits.
- Assist with multi-state sales & use tax filings, 1099s, and inventory counts as needed.
- Document processes and procedures and contribute to continuous process improvement.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive list of duties or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties and responsibilities for this job may change at any time without notice.
Requirements Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance required; CPA or CPA candidate strongly preferred.
- 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, including month-end close and financial reporting.
- Experience with corporate / parent-company consolidated reporting; SAP BOFC (or comparable consolidation tools) strongly preferred.
- Working knowledge of IFRS and U.S. GAAP and the differences between them.
- Experience supporting tax provisions/packages, fixed asset and CapEx reporting, and intercompany accounting.
- Strong ERP proficiency (Great Plains / Dynamics a plus) and advanced Excel.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented; able to meet accelerated, non-negotiable reporting deadlines independently.
- Comfortable in a subsidiary-of-a-public-company environment with frequent corporate interaction.
Compensation:
- Competitive market-based salary and benefits package; commensurate with experience