349 - Senior Lead - Accounting & Reporting

On; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative sportswear brand is seeking a Senior Lead in Accounting & Reporting to oversee financial operations across North America. This role offers the chance to lead a dynamic team, ensuring compliance and accuracy in financial reporting while collaborating with global counterparts. With a focus on personal and professional growth, this position is perfect for a strategic thinker ready to tackle challenges in a fast-paced environment. Join a company that values teamwork and continuous development, where your contributions will help shape the future of finance within the organization.

Benefits

Team-oriented atmosphere

Personal self-care access

Holistic development tools

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of experience in accounting and reporting with leadership roles.
• Experience in Public Accounting Firm or US public company is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the General Ledger and Accounts Payables teams for North America.
• Ensure accurate financial reporting and compliance with IFRS.

Skills

Accounting

Financial Reporting

Leadership

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

CPA License

Job description

The world’s fastest-growing sportswear brand is searching for a Senior Lead, Accounting & Reporting for North America (US, CAN) across all channels (Ecom, Retail, and Wholesale). In this role, you will collaborate with our Group Accounting & Reporting and Controlling teams at our Headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland as well as with our local Finance team, which includes FP+A, Tax, Accounts Receivable, Finance Systems, and Controls. You will directly lead the General Ledger and Accounts Payable teams for North America, work closely with the central CoE and shared services teams, and report to the regional Head of Accounting for the Americas. The expected continued fast growth of On and its regional footprint will require strong strategic, analytical, tactical, and leadership skills while providing ample personal and professional development opportunities. We are excited to offer this role to a process and numbers-driven team player that enthusiastically takes ownership of various challenges within our disruptive finance organization.

This position will be based out of our Americas HQ in Portland, OR.

Your Mission

• Directly lead the General Ledger and Accounts Payables teams
• Ensure complete and accurate financial reporting as well as the timely and compliant month, quarterly and year-end closing and reporting processes for our US and CA entities, in accordance with IFRS
• Collaborate with our Group Accounting + Reporting and Controlling teams at our Headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland as well as with our local Finance team, which includes FP+A, Tax, Accounts Receivable, Finance Systems, and Controls.
• Partner with local bank relationships and work with the Global Treasury Team on financing needs, transfer pricing, custom requirements, etc
• Own, enhance and/or develop internal controls in accordance with Group requirements in a Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) controls environment, ensuring up-to-date process and controls documentation
• Lead and/or contribute to exciting projects and ad hoc tasks in a highly challenging growth environment.

Your story

• 7-10 years of relevant work experience in accounting and reporting, including leadership responsibility. Work experience at Public Accounting Firm and / or a US public company is a plus
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or related field/equivalent years of experience
• CPA License
• Strong understanding of accounting and reporting policies and the respective process and system needs
• Strategic, analytical and problem-solving mindset and able to work independently and/or with cross-functional teams
• Strong leadership skills with experience in developing and leading high-performing teams, both directly and indirectly
• Understands stakeholder needs and requirements in a fast-changing environment with the ability to deal with deadlines and delivering based on priorities
• Entrepreneurial and results-driven mindset with strong hands-on execution and decision making skills.

About the Team

Join us as part of the forward-thinking and action-oriented Americas Finance team. We constantly strive to challenge the status quo, to drive growth and to shape tomorrow’s best practices by thinking differently, acting cross-functionally, and making use of the latest technology. In order to deliver controlled and durable growth, the team brings an entrepreneurial and results-driven mindset combined with strong analytical and hands-on execution skills.

It’s a common stereotype: an accountant buried in spreadsheets, working alone. Well, that’s not us. Our work is a relay, not an individual sprint. We work together with our global teams to help them accomplish their goals – and On’s.

Did you know Portland has more than 1.2 million trees? Our team is pretty happy to have a testing ground in the very green Pacific Northwest.

I’m challenged every day with new learnings, new perspectives and new technologies. I can feel that my horizon expands as our business grows. I’m on this exciting journey of never-ending personal development, which is crucial to me.

What we offer

On is a place that is centered around growth and progress. We offer an environment designed to give people the tools to develop holistically – to stay active, to learn, explore and innovate. Our distinctive approach combines a supportive, team-oriented atmosphere, with access to personal self-care for both physical and mental well-being, so each person is led by purpose.

On is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that is fair and inclusive, where all decisions related to recruitment, advancement, and retention are free of discrimination. We are requesting that you provide sensitive demographic information such as gender identity and race/ethnicity to help us ensure that we are creating equitable and fair experiences for all potential future team members. You are not required to provide this demographic information and this information will in no way impact your eligibility for hire.

We want to set everyone up for success, so here’s the lowdown on how we hire. Our process is a two-way street – bringing you into our culture, while helping us learn how you think.

Our full process can last about eight weeks from application to offer, because we care about getting it right. These steps explain how we usually do things.

Step One:

It starts with you...

You'll start by submitting your application to a specific role.

We try to keep this step as simple as possible. We do get a lot of applications, but we review them all. We ask that you allow around 14 days for us to come back to you with a response. If you are a good fit to the role, someone will follow up with you within that window. If you didn't receive a reply, or were unsuccessful this time around, we encourage you to look for other possible matches at On.