Accounting Manager

Posted 18 Days Ago
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Galway
Mid level
Retail
The Role
The Accounting Manager at Wayfair will oversee the month-end close process, ensuring accuracy and compliance with financial regulations. Responsibilities include preparing financial statements, supporting audit processes, and driving improvements in financial controls and processes. This role also requires effective collaboration with the finance team and senior management as well as participation in various financial projects.
Summary Generated by Built In

Wayfair’s Finance group is seeking an Accounting Manager to join our dynamic financial reporting team. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to work across various areas of accounting and finance, with a strong focus on general ledger accounting. The financial reporting team is responsible for the preparation of our financial statements and ensures compliance with US GAAP and statutory accounting and reporting. 

Responsibilities: 

  • Support the month-end close process, ensuring all financial data is complete, accurate, and timely 
  • Ensure adherence of processes to company's policies and procedures, internal and external audit requirements and local rules and regulations
  • Support strengthening of financial processes and controls 
  • Review monthly reconciliations for US GAAP and statutory financial reporting 
  • Drive projects that support company initiatives 
  • Provide accounting and financial analysis to senior management and other stakeholders as necessary 
  • Bring an analytical mindset to current processes and drive forward continuous improvement 
  • Participate in local, regional and global projects, as required 
  • Stay abreast of regulatory changes in all the different jurisdictions Wayfair operates in 
  • Assist with audit facilitation and coordination 

Qualifications: 

  • We’re looking for somebody ambitious to adapt and grow in their career, who can collaborate effectively with their immediate team and our wider Finance organisation 
  • Qualification in Accounting 2+ years post qualification experience in a similar role related to accounting, reporting or audit required
  • Experience in international accounting and reporting requirements in compliance with US GAAP 
  • Thorough understanding of financial control requirements, such as SOX 404 requirements
  • Experience of accounting and reporting requirements under Irish GAAP FRS 102
  • Experience in Regulatory Reporting 
  • Experience in managing direct reports 
  • Change agent who consistently challenges the status quo and drives improvements to processes, controls and systems
  • Excellent documentation and communication skills; fluent in English, written and verbal

About Wayfair Inc.

Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston or Berlin, or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world, we’re reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving, we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If you’re looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then you’ll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.

No matter who you are, Wayfair is a place you can call home. We’re a community of innovators, risk-takers, and trailblazers who celebrate our differences, and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger, smarter, and well-positioned for success. We value and rely on the collective voices of our employees, customers, community, and suppliers to help guide us as we build a better Wayfair – and world – for all. Every voice, every perspective matters. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Your personal data is processed in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Notice (https://www.wayfair.com/careers/privacy). If you have any questions or wish to exercise your rights under applicable privacy and data protection laws, please contact us at [email protected].

Top Skills

Accounting
The Company
HQ: Boston, MA
13,473 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2002

What We Do

Wayfair is the destination for all things home: helping everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home. From expert customer service, to the development of tools that make the shopping process easier, to carrying one of the widest and deepest selections of items for every space, style, and budget, Wayfair gives everyone the power to create spaces that are just right for them.

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