Description:
Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.
Required Experience
- Proven Controller experience; managing and leading all accounting and financial reporting functions including accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, entity consolidations and intercompany eliminations, and balance sheet management
- Current or recent experience serving external clients in a consulting capacity; specifically in an interim - management role
- Previous experience preparing monthly statements of income, balance sheets and cash flow at the corporate level
- Prior experience managing bank relationships and reporting – monthly/quarterly borrowing base calculations, monthly financial statements, quarterly financial reporting and annual third party reviewed financial statements.
- Familiarity with managing external audit of financial statements.
- Experience coordinating and preparing tax schedules, return and information, managing tax planning and compliance with all required federal, state, local, payroll, property and other applicable taxes
- Established track record as a Controller for PE-owned businesses with revenues in the $250 million to $1 billion range
- Experience in Manufacturing, Health Care, Technology, Business Services or Retail preferred
- Improving the performance of a finance organization by upgrading staff skills, re-designing processes and internal controls.
- Experience leveraging the following ERPs: Oracle (R11/R12/NetSuite), SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Sage, etc
Professional Skills & Qualifications Required
- Active CPA highly preferred
- Strong written, oral, and analytical skills
- Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills
- Structured project management (time, team, and work-stream’s management)
- Initiative and drive
- Critical thinking skills
- Skill to deliver time-pressured project on-time and on-quality
- Flexible and creative thinking
- Exceptional client relationship building capability
- Ability to identify key operational performance drivers, cash flow forecasting, and flexibility to support clients with a broad array of issues
- Developing findings and making strategic recommendations
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- 10+ years of previous related financial management roles, cost accounting, general ledger accounting, accounting diligence, or restructuring experience
- Ability to traveling extensively within the US
- Existing PE relationships a plus