Accounting Team Leader - GL

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Business Unit Overview

This position is part of Novanta’s Corporate and Shared Services global teams. Novanta’s Corporate and Shared Services teams play an important role in executing the company’s strategic mission and operations. Included in Corporate and Shared Services are the business functions including Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal, Compliance, Corporate Development and Corporate Marketing. The Corporate and Shared Services teams work closely with all Novanta business units to support operating initiatives contributing to the organization’s financial success.

Summary

The General Ledger (GL) Team Leader is a dynamic position managing the Shared Services GL team for multiple European Novanta companies. This position ensures compliance with SOX and other internal policies requirements within the GL Accounting function, implements best practices across the GL team and is go-to person for the GL accountants in terms of complex transactions and issues. In addition, this role will also be supporting the transition of GL processing from various European sites to Brno.

Primary Responsibilities

Process Improvement & Change Management

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and understand business needs, objectives, and priorities related to process transformation initiatives.
• Analyze current business processes to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and areas for improvement.
• Ensure processes are documented and aligned to standard methodologies, best practices and organizational guidelines, promoting consistency and efficiency in operations.
• Support change management efforts by assisting in the development and implementation of training materials and stakeholder engagement strategies to facilitate adoption of new processes and systems.
• Proactively identify opportunities for continuous improvement in processes, methodologies, controls and tools to drive ongoing optimization and innovation within the organization.

Business Process Owner

• Resolve complex issues with transactions processing (go-to person for GL Accountants)
• Resolve technical issues affecting GL in cooperation with IT
• Understand functionality of each ERP/Platform used by GL team
• Mitigate knowledge/skill gaps of GL team
• Monitor key performance indicators of the team to ensure productivity levels meet established criteria
• Ability to perform GL Accountant duties
• Ensure back-up is available within GL team in case of potential absence of any GL Accountant
• Facilitate payment process via adhoc checking of payment files before they are submitted to final release in bank

Compliance & Controls

• Participation in closing activities (subledgers closing, reconciliations, accruals), cooperation with GL
• Direct cooperation with internal and external auditors
• Follow corporate accounting policies and procedures to ensure SOX compliance and Novanta Approval Matrix
• Review and approve Journal Entries preparedy by GL Accountants
• Supervise/update monthly closing checklist daily during reporting week to ensure closing activities are complete and delivered on time for all Sites in the scope of EMEA SSC Accounting team
• Address/resolve delays in closing activities (if indentified) and mitigate the risks of such delays.
• Provide monthly closing updates to Corporate Accounting on dedicated calls during reporting week
• Review and approve monthly reconciliations of smaller-scale Sites
• Implement updates in Novanta accounting/reporting policies while ensuring harmonized GL approach for all Sites in the scope of EMEA SSC Accounting team

Required Experience, Education, Skills, Training and Competencies

• Bachelor’s degree in business management, Finance/Accounting, Information Systems or equivalent.
• Experience in business analysis, process improvement or related roles
• SAP/Oracle ERP system experience
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and interpret data from various sources.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities and requirements.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
• Familiarity with project management methodologies and tools (e.g., Agile, Scrum, JIRA) is a plus
• Excellent skills with Microsoft Word Office, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook etc.
• Ability to pay attention to detail when understanding the process.
• Ability to manage time effectively and Self-learning capabilities.
• Ability to find solutions, not only causes