Senior Director, Accounting & Financial Services

• Provide strategic leadership, coaching, and development for the accounting team while establishing priorities, performance expectations, and accountability
• Direct enterprise accounting operations, ensuring accurate and timely monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes in compliance with GAAP and organizational policies
• Serve as the senior technical accounting expert, advising leadership on complex accounting issues, regulatory requirements, tax matters, and financial reporting
• Lead external financial, Uniform Guidance, and other audits, ensuring audit readiness, issue resolution, and strong partnerships with auditors and financial advisors
• Oversee preparation and review of financial statements, Forms 990, regulatory filings, grant, foundation, investment, and other specialized accounting activities
• Establish and strengthen accounting governance, internal controls, risk management practices, and compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and corporate policies
• Analyze financial performance, identify trends and risks, and provide strategic recommendations to executive leadership to improve financial and operational outcomes
• Partner cross-functionally with Finance, FP&A, Legal, Operations, Internal Audit, and business leaders to enhance financial reporting, controls, forecasting, and process effectiveness
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, ERP-enabled transformation, and operational efficiencies across accounting functions
• Foster exceptional customer service while ensuring adherence to internal SOPs, regulatory requirements, and quality standards

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required
• MBA preferred
• Thorough knowledge and application of U.S. GAAP required
• Comprehensive knowledge of current and evolving best practices and industry trends required
• CPA certification preferred
• Ten years of progressive accounting or finance leadership experience required
• Significant experience leading complex accounting operations, financial reporting, internal controls, audits, and enterprise-level process improvement
• Five years of people leadership experience, including responsibility for leading managers or professional accounting staff, required
• Two years of experience managing a hybrid workforce preferred
• Experience overseeing preparation, review, and governance of Forms 990, nonprofit tax registrations, tax exemption filings, and related regulatory filings required
• Knowledge of sales tax, property tax, exemption filings, and related compliance requirements preferred
• Experience leading accounting transformation, ERP implementation or optimization, process standardization, automation, or shared services improvement preferred
• Grant, foundation, investment, research, or specialized nonprofit accounting experience preferred
• Understanding of Payroll and benefits accounting preferred

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in U.S. GAAP, financial reporting, and accounting operations while providing strategic leadership and fostering cross-functional collaboration to enhance financial performance and compliance.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• U.S. GAAP Knowledge
• Financial Reporting
• CPA Certification
• Accounting Operations Leadership
• Audit Management

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Financial Statement Preparation
• Regulatory Filings
• Internal Controls
• Risk Management
• Process Improvement
• ERP Implementation
• Tax Compliance
• Accounting Transformation
• Data Analysis
• Performance Management

Soft Skills

• Strategic Leadership
• Coaching
• Collaboration
• Customer Service
• Communication

Certifications & Qualifications

• CPA Certification
• MBA

Industry Keywords

• Nonprofit Accounting
• Forms 990
• Uniform Guidance
• Financial Audits
• Tax Exemption Filings