The Director of Accounting will serve as a key technical accounting resource for the acquired entities, ensuring compliance with GAAP and Hub Corporate Accounting Policy, installing and maintaining proper accounting controls, driving master data clean-up efforts, and supporting transactional accounting activities such as accounts receivable, accounts payable, and revenue and cost recognition journal entries.

Transactional Accounting Oversight:

• Oversee day-to-day transactional accounting operations (accounts receivable, accounts payable, revenue and cost recognition, etc.) for legacy entities operating on multiple, non-centralized systems.
• Ensure transactional accounting compliance with GAAP and company policies across acquired entities

Compliance & Control Implementation:

• Implement and enforce proper accounting controls and compliance procedures across legacy systems.
• Ensure consistency and accuracy in transactional accounting processes across the fragmented system landscape.

Technical Accounting Support:

• Serve as a technical resource for legacy accounting teams, answering complex accounting questions and ensuring proper application of GAAP.
• Provide guidance and support in transactional accounting issues, offering expertise in both day-to-day operations and more complex scenarios.

Master Data Management:

• Lead efforts to clean up and validate legacy customer, vendor, and employee master data for acquired entities in preparation for ERP migration.
• Ensure accurate and complete master data across legacy systems before migrating to the centralized ERP platform.

ERP Migration Preparation:

• Collaborate with the ERP migration team to ensure that accounting processes, controls, and data from acquired entities are properly prepared for integration into the company’s centralized system.
• Facilitate the smooth transition of entities from legacy systems to standardized processes within the accounting shared service center.

Talent Development

• Oversight of direct reports on team and talent development for internal team of 25-30 people, including performance management and goal setting processes
• Evaluate the skills and competencies of legacy accounting staff to determine fit for future roles in the centralized accounting shared service center or other areas of SPG.
• Provide recommendations on staffing decisions, including transitioning staff into new roles and identifying training needs.

M&A Integration:

• Onboard newly acquired entities into the SPG accounting ecosystem and introducing legacy accounting teams to SPG policies, procedures, and external systems and resources.
• Manage ongoing accounting compliance and technical support for future acquisitions, preparing each entity for eventual ERP and organizational consolidation into an accounting shared service center.

Process Improvement:

• Identify and implement process improvements and best practices across transactional accounting functions for the acquired entities.
• Standardize procedures where possible to align with the company’s broader accounting and compliance standards.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field; CPA required.

Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years of accounting management experience, with significant exposure to M&A transactions, integrations, and oversight of multi-entity operations.
• Prior experience in the insurance or financial services industry is strongly preferred.
• Experience operating in a Sarbanes-Oxley reporting environment
• Proven track record of managing transactional accounting processes, GAAP compliance, and internal controls.

Skills & Competencies:

• Strong technical knowledge of GAAP and accounting controls, with experience managing transactional accounting functions across multiple systems.
• Experience with ERP migrations and data validation.
• Prior experience in QuickBooks, Salesforce, AMS360, Great Plains, and/or TAM is preferred
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to guide and assess legacy accounting staff during transition to shared service center environment.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and process improvement skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.