Director of Accounting
Vaco Recruiter Services, Mahwah, NJ, United States
Leadership & Oversight
Lead and mentor two Accounting Managers overseeing a subrights and royalty accounting team consisting of 5 full time employees and 4 contractors.
Serve as the senior point of contact for royalties and subrights accounting across the organization with both internal stakeholders and external auditors.
Process Improvement
Oversee the creation of process documentation and serve as the process owner for rights and royalties accounting.
Design, implement, and improve processes for monthly accruals, year‑end estimates of advance recoupments, reconciliations, account roll‑forwards, and streamline journal entries.
Partner with Finance, Contracts, and Subrights Sales teams to streamline reporting and ensure accuracy.
Drive transformation initiatives tied to ongoing system changes and new ISBN‑level accounting in SAP.
Systems & Data Management
Oversee the reconciliation of advances and royalty earnings from two different royalty systems into the SAP general ledger.
Leverage Excel and large datasets to enhance analysis, reporting, and internal controls.
Own the data definitions of royalties and subrights fields that impact the financial ledger and serve as the point of contact for technology in changes impacting the rights & royalties accounting process.
Collaboration & Reporting
Provide timely and accurate reporting to division finance teams.
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Lead and mentor two Accounting Managers overseeing a subrights and royalty accounting team consisting of 5 full time employees and 4 contractors.
Serve as the senior point of contact for royalties and subrights accounting across the organization with both internal stakeholders and external auditors.
Process Improvement
Oversee the creation of process documentation and serve as the process owner for rights and royalties accounting.
Design, implement, and improve processes for monthly accruals, year‑end estimates of advance recoupments, reconciliations, account roll‑forwards, and streamline journal entries.
Partner with Finance, Contracts, and Subrights Sales teams to streamline reporting and ensure accuracy.
Drive transformation initiatives tied to ongoing system changes and new ISBN‑level accounting in SAP.
Systems & Data Management
Oversee the reconciliation of advances and royalty earnings from two different royalty systems into the SAP general ledger.
Leverage Excel and large datasets to enhance analysis, reporting, and internal controls.
Own the data definitions of royalties and subrights fields that impact the financial ledger and serve as the point of contact for technology in changes impacting the rights & royalties accounting process.
Collaboration & Reporting
Provide timely and accurate reporting to division finance teams.
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