Senior Director, Financial Reporting & IPO Readiness

Alvarez & Marsal; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare plans

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Sick time (72 hours)

Federal holidays

Floating holiday

Parental leave

Job summary

Alvarez & Marsal seeks a Senior Director for Financial Reporting Advisory in Los Angeles to advise PE portfolios on US GAAP matters, pre/post-deal reporting, and IPO readiness. The role combines leadership, data validation, and project delivery across advisory and interim management engagements.

You will guide teams, manage client interviews, forecast liquidity needs, and optimize financial processes while delivering clear recommendations to senior management.

Qualifications

• Guide team members in information gathering approach and ensure all relevant sources of information are pursued
• Guide and lead client interviews, ask inquisitive questions and understand different stakeholders’ perspective
• Identify knowledge gaps, guide the team to challenge status quo, validate, disprove and/or develop better assumptions
• Identify key business challenges, accurately forecast liquidity needs, pinpoint financial/accounting process inefficiencies and assess the organization’s design, roles and team
• Ensure issues and opportunities are clearly and concisely presented
• Understanding accounting and finance process flows and how information is consolidated into the general ledger, to ensure improvement and value creation

Responsibilities

• Own and complete a workstream based on the pillars of services CFO Services provides
• Ensure that project approach, timeline and deliverables are logical, reasonable and accurate
• Set and communicate client’s expectation consistently
• Employ actionable plans (e.g. create initiatives to optimize working capital, instill a liquidity focused culture, improve transparency in processes and organizations)
• Identify risks and obstacles early on, create contingency plans and communicating timely with client
• Ability to identify where the pillars of services CFO Services provides are not functioning
• Leverage previous experience to guide and promote team to think innovatively
• Recognize the current skill set of team members and maximize their level of contribution
• Share knowledge and experience, provide coaching to teammates
• Ability to build and review various financial models, provide valuable financial analysis and evaluate accounting treatments
• Ability to provide valuable insight and improvement initiatives to senior management and board members

Skills

Leadership

Data analysis

Project management

Financial acumen

Communication

Education

CPA certification

Job description

Alvarez & Marsal seeks a Senior Director for Financial Reporting Advisory in Los Angeles to advise PE portfolios on US GAAP matters, pre/post-deal reporting, and IPO readiness. The role combines leadership, data validation, and project delivery across advisory and interim management engagements.

You will guide teams, manage client interviews, forecast liquidity needs, and optimize financial processes while delivering clear recommendations to senior management.