Manager, Accounts is responsible for ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of accounting and tax information through effective team leadership, strong control discipline, and close partnership with cross‑functional teams. This is a people‑manager role with broad responsibilities across financial accounting, direct and indirect tax compliance, audit support, and process automation.
Here’s where you’ll demonstrate your Core Competencies:
- Lead and manage the accounting team, ensuring high standards of accuracy, controls, and compliance
- Ensure all accounting transactions comply with GAAP and SOX requirements as defined by global accounting leadership
- Partner with multiple intercompany over monthly cross charging, financial analysis to answer questions and dig into root causes, monitoring account activity for unanticipated fluctuation in balances.
- Review and reconcile balance sheet accounts including Cash, AR, EMD, prepaid expenses, inventory, purchase accruals, expense accruals, and other assigned accounts
- Ensure compliance with direct and indirect tax regulations, including GST, E‑Invoicing, E‑Waybills, customs duty, IGST input reconciliation, transfer pricing filings, assessments, and audits
- Act as key contact for external consultants for tax compliance, assessments, and statutory filings, coordinate internal and external audit requests, ensuring timely submission of information and resolution of audit observations
- Oversee month‑end, quarter‑end, and year‑end close activities within established timelines
- Drive automation, process improvements, and standardization within accounting and tax operations
- Ensure strong communication and coordination across functions to support accurate systems, reporting, and compliance
Skills Required
- Experience in managing accounting teams
- Knowledge of GAAP and SOX compliance
- Familiarity with direct and indirect tax regulations
- Experience with financial analysis and auditing
Fortive Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fortive and has not been reviewed or approved by Fortive.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is fully paid for 12 weeks for all parents, with fertility coverage via Progyny and generous adoption/surrogacy support. Backup child and adult care plus inclusive eligibility extend support across diverse family structures.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple PPO and HSA medical options include telemedicine and second-opinion services, alongside robust mental-health access through Spring Health with no‑cost therapy sessions. The breadth of medical and behavioral health resources is highlighted as a strength.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) provides a competitive employer match each pay period, with an additional company retirement contribution after one year of service. Financial wellness tools and an employee stock purchase plan further bolster long‑term savings.
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