Senior Manager, Accounting

Job Description
The primary function of the Senior Manager, General Accounting is to ensure the accurate recording of financial transactions. This role supports the General Accounting and Reporting team in the various accounting functions, including month end close, monthly balance sheet reconciliation, SOX, and other reporting requirements, in addition to ad-hoc project support for North America and CSI Corporate functions.
CooperSurgical is a leading fertility and women's healthcare company dedicated to putting time on the side of women, babies, and families at the healthcare moments that matter most in life.
CooperSurgical is at the forefront of delivering innovative assisted reproductive technology and genomic solutions that enhance the work of ART professionals to the benefit of families. We currently offer over 600 clinically relevant medical devices to women's healthcare providers, including testing and treatment options.
CooperSurgical is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CooperCompanies (Nasdaq: COO). CooperSurgical, headquartered in Trumbull, CT, produces and markets a wide array of products and services for use by women's health care clinicians. More information can be found at .
Responsibilities
The Senior Manager plays a crucial role in maintaining the financial health of the organization by effectively managing and ensuring accurate and complete recording and reporting of various aspects of Financials. The Senior Manager will coordinate and collaborate with other departments such FP&A, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable to gather information, resolve discrepancies, and communicate accounting-related matters.
Critical to the position is also the compliance with Internal Controls, ability to work independently and as part of a team, and to take on new tasks with high level of difficulty.
The Senior Manager will be managing the managers of the General Accounting and play a critical role to the people management and training within the team.
Essential Functions & Accountabilities:

• Responsibility for team of 2-3 Managers and their staff
• Approve and review monthly journal entries
• Review of reconciliations prepared by accounting team as appropriate
• Complete monthly Flux and other required analysis, including review of team submissions
• Support efforts to maintain internal controls/processes
• Monthly, Quarterly and Annual reporting to Corporate Reporting, Insurance and Tax Departments
• Gather and review support for submission to internal and external audits
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP and generally accepted accounting policies
• Expert skills in Excel spreadsheet (i.e. Pivot tables, v Lookup, SUMIF and other Excel functions) and competency with other Microsoft Office applications
• Key contributor to ERP upgrades and improvements
• Business acumen in a fast-paced environment; collaboration across levels
• Perform additional duties as requested by management- such as process improvement projects
• Ensure complete and accurate recording of all transactions into accounting system.
• Analyse financial information and summarize financial status of owned accounts.
• Prepares documentation with proper format and consistency, allowing reviewers to easily follow and understand the flow of transactions.
• Complying with expected due dates for Month-end close and B/S Reconciliation activities.
• Plan and coordinate with other departments such as accounts receivable and accounts payable to gather information, resolve discrepancies, and communicate outstanding matters.
• Review reconciliations of various accounts to ensure accuracy and identify any discrepancies on a timely basis.
• Investigate and resolve any discrepancies or issues related to financial transactions promptly and effectively.
• Complete monthly Flux and other required analysis.
• Coordinate and support audits by external auditors, including the preparation of audit schedules and responding to audit inquiries.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to managers and junior accounting staff, fostering a collaborative team environment.
• Identify opportunities and suggest ways to streamline processes, improve efficiency, and enhance the accuracy of the accounting procedures.
• Support efforts to help drive and maintain internal controls/processes including development of controls as the business needs change.
• Manage and monitor financial accounts, ledgers, and reporting systems and ensure compliance with appropriate GAAP standards and regulatory requirements as well as internal financial policies.
• Participate in department projects and/or cross-departmental projects.
• Perform additional duties as requested by management- such as process improvement projects.
• Protects organization's value by keeping information confidential.

Travel:
Travel less than 15% domestically.
Qualifications
Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting
• 7-10 years of progressive accounting experience
• Preferred - CPA license or demonstrating progress toward achieving CPA
• Experience with ERP Systems, i.e. SAP, Oracle or Microsoft D365
• Working knowledge of Microsoft suite of products to include Excel, Word, Outlook
• High level of interpersonal, written, verbal communication skills
• Ability to work cross functionally to achieve desired results
• Maintain a high level of confidentiality and professional skepticism

As an employee of CooperSurgical, you'll receive an outstanding total compensation plan. As we believe your compensation goes beyond your paycheck, we offer a great compensation package, medical coverage, 401(k), parental leave, fertility benefits, paid time off for vacation, personal, sick and holidays, and multiple other perks and benefits. Please visit us at to learn more about CooperSurgical and the benefits of becoming a member of our team.
To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of CooperSurgical about this opening. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at CooperSurgical via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of CooperSurgical, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by CooperSurgical for this position and a valid agreement with CooperSurgical is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the CooperSurgical agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.
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