Senior Director of Accounting
Churchill Downs
- Louisville, KY
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting and CPA required.
- Public accounting experience preferred.
- A minimum of 5-10 years of accounting experience with accounting leadership experience.
- Working knowledge of JDE and/or Oracle PeopleSoft accounting software preferred.
- Sound technical skills, analytical ability, good judgment, and strong operational focus.
- Extensive knowledge of Sarbanes Oxley requirements for internal controls.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Must have management experience and presence.
- Leadership with an emphasis on inter-personal relationships and a “results orientation” with the team.
- Analytical skills that will allow him/her to look at alternatives and identify discrepancies and irregularities and determine the best solution to correcting any situation.
- Strategic skills to tackle problems and develop analyses, projections, and scenarios for short- and long-term strategic planning.
- Ability to set goals, manage timetables and meet deadlines.
- Assist with accounting policies, practices, and procedures for their functional area:
- Responsible for overseeing all financial reporting, and leading the accounting team, assisting in establishing and maintaining accounting policies and procedures to ensure conformance with GAAP, and other reporting requirements.
- Develops processes and structures that improve the efficiency of the accounting and finance organization and the flow of quality financial information within the Company.
- Maintains internal controls in processes and procedures.
- Directs and manages the accounting and audit process:
- Strong management of our internal and external partners – auditors, accounting services, tax advisors, compliance, etc.
- Ensures compliance with GAAP, tax laws, and statutory reporting.
- Communicates effectively across the organization:
- Strong reporting, analytical, and operational finance experience, and aptitude.
- Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills; attention to detail and accuracy in work.
- Coaches the team to work and operate expertly across the entire organization.
0 years: Public Accounting Experience
0 years: CPA