Financial Reporting and Technical Accounting Manager

rsm; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

RSM, a leading provider of professional services to mid-market clients, seeks a Finance & Accounting Manager to oversee US GAAP financial reporting, internal controls, and policy development. The role builds and strengthens Workiva-based reporting, collaborates with Controllership, Treasury, Tax, Legal, Internal Audit, and external auditors.

You will manage quarterly and annual statements, prepare disclosures, and drive process improvements across reporting, controls, and data validation in a

Responsibilities

• Manage the preparation and review of quarterly and annual U.S. GAAP financial statements and the related bank reporting package.
• Prepare and review the balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flows, financial statement disclosures, and supporting schedules.
• Maintain the financial reporting calendar, deliverable checklist, responsibility matrix, and period-end reporting documentation.
• Coordinate with accounting process owners to validate significant balances, disclosures, estimates, and unusual transactions.
• Perform analytical reviews and investigate unexpected trends, relationships, or reporting results.
• Ensure financial statements and disclosures are accurately tied to the general ledger and supporting accounting records.
• Lead the buildout, administration, and ongoing enhancement of the Workiva financial reporting environment.
• Establish and maintain Workiva reporting structures, data connections, document linking, templates, workflows, user access, and review processes.
• Identify opportunities to improve reporting quality, control, efficiency, collaboration, and version management through Workiva.

Job description

We are the leading provider of professional services to the middle market globally, our purpose is to instill confidence in a world of change, empowering our clients and people to realize their full potential. Our exceptional people are the key to our unrivaled, culture and talent experience and our ability to be compelling to our clients. You'll find an environment that inspires and empowers you to thrive both personally and professionally. There's no one like you and that's why there's nowhere like RSM.

The Finance & Accounting Manager will support the Firm's financial reporting, technical accounting, and internal control activities. This role will manage the preparation of quarterly and annual U.S. GAAP financial statements and the related bank reporting package, including financial statement disclosures, supporting schedules, and reporting documentation.

The Manager will also help strengthen internal controls over financial reporting, assist with technical accounting research and documentation, and support the development and implementation of accounting policies. In addition, this position will play a major role in building, administering, and continuously enhancing the Firm's Workiva financial reporting environment.

The role will partner closely with Controllership, Treasury, Tax, Legal, Internal Audit, external auditors, and other Finance stakeholders.

Essential Duties

Financial Reporting: 40%

• Manage the preparation and review of quarterly and annual U.S. GAAP financial statements and the related bank reporting package.
• Prepare and review the balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flows, financial statement disclosures, and supporting schedules.
• Maintain the financial reporting calendar, deliverable checklist, responsibility matrix, and period-end reporting documentation.
• Coordinate with accounting process owners to validate significant balances, disclosures, estimates, and unusual transactions.
• Perform analytical reviews and investigate unexpected trends, relationships, or reporting results.
• Ensure financial statements and disclosures are accurately tied to the general ledger and supporting accounting records.
• Lead the buildout, administration, and ongoing enhancement of the Workiva financial reporting environment.
• Establish and maintain Workiva reporting structures, data connections, document linking, templates, workflows, user access, and review processes.
• Identify opportunities to improve reporting quality, control, efficiency, collaboration, and version management through Workiva.

Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting: 25%

• Support the development and enhancement of internal controls over financial reporting.
• Document significant processes, risks, controls, control owners, evidence requirements, and review expectations.
• Develop and maintain process narratives, risk and control matrices, flowcharts, and control documentation.
• Evaluate control design and execution, identify gaps or weaknesses, and coordinate remediation activities with process owners.
• Improve the precision and documentation of management review controls.
• Assist with financial reporting risk assessments, control walkthroughs, testing requests, and audit-readiness activities.
• Evaluate opportunities to strengthen controls through standardization, automation, system configuration, and improved data validation.

Technical Accounting and Accounting Policy: 20%

• Research U.S. GAAP and prepare technical accounting memoranda, position papers, and implementation documentation.
• Gather and evaluate contracts, transaction documents, financial data, and other relevant evidence.
• Support accounting analyses involving revenue recognition, leases, internal-use software, consolidations, debt, financial instruments, contingencies, acquisitions, divestitures, and other complex matters.
• Monitor new accounting standards and assist with impact assessments, implementation plans, policy updates, system requirements, and adoption documentation.
• Help translate technical accounting conclusions into journal entries, disclosures, accounting procedures, and internal controls.
• Maintain trackers for open technical accounting matters, key judgments, deliverables, responsible parties, and reporting deadlines.
• Escalate significant judgments, alternative accounting views, and unresolved matters to the Director.

Audit Support and Process Improvement: 15%

• Coordinate financial reporting, technical accounting, and internal control requests from external auditors, Internal Audit, lenders, and other reviewers.
• Maintain request lists, issue trackers, documentation repositories, and status reporting.
• Review audit support for completeness, accuracy, consistency, and appropriate approval before submission.
• Assist with explanations of significant accounting processes, estimates, transactions, judgments, and controls.
• Support finance transformation and reporting initiatives that affect accounting, financial reporting, Workiva, or internal controls.
• Develop stand