Vice President, Global Controller
Our purpose is to positively impact people’s lives every day in every home around the world! We work very hard to provide our consumers with high-quality, exciting 5-star products that make life easier. We thrive on passion and innovation and are looking for great people, with great ideas, who want to build the next big thing and develop while they do.
Our mission to positively impact people's lives every day in every home around the world allows our employees to be thinkers and tinkerers, designers and doers, creators and number crunchers, makers of things they love. As we continue to grow, we are excited to add a VP, Global Controller to our global team.
Position Overview:
We are seeking a highly-motivated and experienced individual to join our team as Vice President, Global Controller. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in overseeing and optimizing the company's accounting and financial operations, ensuring compliance with US GAAP, maintaining a strong internal control environment, and contributing to the strategic financial direction of the organization.
This role will be expected to evolve the organization as the business continues to scale globally, providing strong financial leadership and partnership on business issues, alignment towards driving business results, and ability to deliver accurate financial information in a timely manner. The successful candidate will possess extensive accounting and leadership experience and a demonstrated ability to drive effectiveness and cohesiveness across the global finance organization.
This role reports to the Chief Accounting Officer and is based in our headquarters in Needham, MA.
Here are some of the EXCITING things you’ll get to do:
Responsibilities:
- Manage and lead the accounting and financial operations (accounts payable, accounts receivable) functions of the company, ensuring consistent application of policies and procedures across all regions.
- Ensure the integrity of the company’s internal control systems, identifying opportunities for improvement and strengthening of the control environment globally.
- Establish and maintain global company policies and procedures surrounding finance and accounting matters.
- Improve the efficiency and accuracy of the accounting close processes, driving consistency and accountability through technology and KPI tracking.
- Identify opportunities to streamline global financial operations for optimal performance, including resource structure/optimization and automation opportunities.
- Build and lead an unstoppable team across the globe. Provide strategic, inspirational leadership and build bench strength through strong hiring and development practices. Maintain the highest standards for talent and bring new thinking to recruiting and hiring practices.
- Develop value-added management reporting processes and financial systems. Use data to drive continuous performance improvement. Provide meaningful, proactive analysis to improve business decisions.
- Be a strong business partner across Finance functions, including FP&A, financial reporting, tax, and treasury, to drive improved financial close and forecasting processes, as well as with business functions outside of Finance.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance; CPA certification required.
- 12+ years progressive experience in accounting/finance roles, with a focus on global accounting operations in a public company environment
- Demonstrated ability to lead diverse global teams, driving strong collaboration and alignment.
- Possess strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to partner cross-functionally. Must be able to link business operations or strategic objectives with accounting activities, convey a message that is clear and concise, and motivate high performance.
- Detail-oriented, organized, accurate and adaptable. Excellent decision making and time management skills.
- Comfortable working with ambiguity, with an ability to make a decision, start executing, and course correct as needed.
- Demonstrated ability to work on competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Growth Mindsets:
- Experience seeking out learning opportunities for yourself
- Ability to adapt to new environments
- Relying on your resilience and influential ability, partner with internal colleagues cross-functionally, and with global teams, to liberate thinking and drive outcomes.
At SharkNinja, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are vital to our global success. Valuing each unique voice and blending all of our diverse skills strengthens SharkNinja’s innovation every day. We support ALL associates in bringing their authentic selves to work, making an impact, and having the opportunity for career acceleration. With help from our leadership, associates, and our community, we aim to have equity be a key component of the SharkNinja DNA.
YOUR ROLE in leading our SUCCESS DRIVERS & representing our UNIQUE MINDSET
- Lead us to be “RARELY SATISFIED”
- Make things better each day; “PROGRESS OVER PERFECTION”
- Use your knowledge of our consumer, understand that “DETAILS MAKE THE DIFFERENCE”
- Deliver something great; “WINNING IS A TEAM SPORT”
- Be clear and honest, “COMMUNICATING FOR IMPACT”
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