Position Summary
Leads the month end close for hub or group of plants. Oversees accountants to ensure completion of ledger accounts and financial statements and financial information is reported accurately and in the proper period. Calculates, posts and verifies data for complex accounts. Responsible for compliance to US GAAP, Internal Controls and corporate guidelines and processes established by RRD. Evaluates and makes appropriate improvements to internal accounting processes ensuring that practices are in line with the overall goals of the organization. Offers suggestions about resource utilization, strategies and assumptions underlying budget forecasts. Ensures systems in place for proper information flow and accurate reporting and liaison with operational team to ensure data is entered and captured properly for accurate reporting. Drives special projects needed for process improvements and efficiencies and ensures existing processes and reporting are updated for changes in the business and structure.
Responsibilities
Journal entries for complex/material accounts
Balance sheet reconciliations
Balance sheet analysis
Commission review and approval
Internal Controls, processes and procedures
Compliance – checklists, signoffs, reviews, close checklists
Audit
Business Reviews for explanation of actual results
Owns month-end close and reporting of financial result
Review and communicate top customer reporting and other monthly reporting of actual results
Analyze accounts, records, reports, accounts receivable and payable. Journal vouchers, general and subsidiary ledgers and other accounting documents for accuracy and completeness
Investigate and resolve accounting problems for the area of responsibility
Ensures proper retention, filing, and handling of accounting records
Ensures the billing process is completed on a timely, accurate basis in accordance with RRD’s revenue recognition policies.
Oversees related commission calculations in accordance with company commission plan
Supervises accounting and administrative staff and is responsible for managing the team to ensure that work is properly allocated and completed in a timely and accurate manger.
Understands risk management program, including types of business insurance coverage.
Identifies and coordinates any business insurance claims.
Oversees monthly physical inventory counts and is responsible for tracking/valuing all materials, work in progress, and finished goods at month-end. Performance and documents inventory obsolescence in accordance with RRD policy.
Signs off on key/material JE’s
Signs off on key/material balance sheet reconciliations
Required Skills
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance OR demonstrated ability to meet the job requirements through a comparable number of years of applicable work experience.
Accounting supervisory experience in a manufacturing profit center environment
Highly proficient in Microsoft products and other applicable accounting and financial systems
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Chicago, IL
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, an integrated communications provider, enables organizations to create, manage, deliver, and optimize their multichannel marketing and business communications. It operates through Business Services and Marketing Solutions segments. The Business Services segment offers commercial printing products and branded materials, including manuals, publications, brochures, business cards, flyers, post cards, posters, and promotional items; and specialized transportation and distribution services.
It also provides customer billings, financial statements, healthcare communications, and insurance document statement printing services; distribution, shipping, healthcare, durable goods, promotional, and consumer product goods packaging labels; and packaging solutions, including rigid boxes and in-box print materials for clients in the consumer electronics, life sciences, cosmetics, and consumer packaged goods industries. In addition, this segment offers workflow design, assembly, configuration, kitting, and fulfillment services for clients in the consumer electronics, telecommunications, life sciences, cosmetics, education, and industrial industries.
Further, it provides invoices, order, and business forms that support the private and public sectors; and outsourcing services, such as creative services, research and analytics, financial management, and other services for legal providers, insurance, telecommunications, utilities, retail, and financial services companies. The Marketing Solutions segment offers direct marketing, such as audience segmentation, creative development, program testing, print production, postal optimization, and performance analytics for large-scale personalized direct mail programs; and in-store marketing, digital print, kitting, fulfillment, digital, and creative solutions and list services. It operates in the United States, Asia, Europe, and internationally. The company was founded in 1864 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.