(CW) Accounting Manager -Intercompany& Transfer Pricing

Accountabilities: Manage Intercompany Accounting: Execute end-to-end intercompany activities, including billing, journal entries, accounts receivable and accounts payable matching, reconciliations, settlements, and balance clearing. Support Financial Close: Contribute to monthly and quarterly close processes by investigating discrepancies, identifying root causes, resolving outstanding balances, and coordinating timely corrections. Execute Transfer Pricing Activities: Process cost allocations, intercompany service charges, royalties, and periodic true-ups, validating results against accounting records and approved methodologies. Support SAP PaPM Operations: Execute and validate SAP Profitability and Performance Management (PaPM) processes, reconcile outputs, prepare reports, and resolve calculation, posting, or system issues with technical teams. Maintain Operational Continuity: Manage interim manual workarounds while system stabilization and automation initiatives progress, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and appropriate controls. Contribute to Process Centralization: Support the transition of intercompany activities into a centralized operating model, including billing, reconciliations, settlements, and operational handoffs. Improve Processes and Controls: Simplify workflows, reduce repetitive manual activities, strengthen financial controls, and maintain accurate standard operating procedures and supporting documentation. Support Business Integration: Assist with integrating acquired entities into intercompany accounting and transfer pricing processes, including transaction-flow validation, master data requirements, accounting setup, and reconciliations. Test Systems and Solutions: Participate in SAP process testing, validate interim solutions, document issues, and coordinate resolution with Finance, Tax, Accounting, and technology support teams. Support Consolidation and Reporting: Assist with intercompany eliminations, resolve consolidation and reporting discrepancies, and provide accurate information required for global financial close activities. Coordinate Cross-Functional Activities: Work closely with Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Accounts Payable, Order-to-Cash, regional Finance, and IT teams to resolve operational issues and maintain effective processes. Deliver Reliable Operational Outcomes: Take ownership of assigned deliverables, prioritize material risks, recommend practical solutions, and transition new or integrated activities into stable recurring operations. Requirements: Education: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field. A Certified Public Accountant (CPA) qualification is preferred but not required. Professional Experience: Five to eight years of relevant accounting or finance experience, including intercompany accounting, reconciliations, and month-end close activities. Intercompany Accounting Expertise: Strong understanding of intercompany transactions, billing, journal entries, balance matching, settlements, reconciliations, and financial close procedures. Transfer Pricing Knowledge: Experience with transfer pricing accounting and operational execution is preferred, particularly involving cost allocations, intercompany charges, royalties, and periodic adjustments. SAP Experience: Strong preference for SAP S/4HANA experience. Familiarity with SAP PaPM is advantageous but not mandatory. Process Improvement: Experience contributing to process optimization, system implementations, operational stabilization, or business integration projects. Technical and Analytical Skills: Advanced proficiency in Excel, strong reconciliation capabilities, analytical thinking, and the ability to investigate and resolve complex accounting discrepancies. Operational Ownership: Ability to independently manage assigned responsibilities, deliver accurate results, and become productive quickly with limited training. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Experience coordinating with Finance, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Accounts Payable, Order-to-Cash, IT, and other operational stakeholders. Risk-Based Judgment: Ability to balance accounting accuracy, internal controls, efficiency, and business priorities when making operational decisions. Problem-Solving and Adaptability: Confidence working through evolving processes, temporary manual solutions, system issues, and competing priorities while maintaining reliable financial operations. Communication and Documentation: Ability to document procedures clearly, communicate issues effectively, and coordinate solutions across technical and nontechnical teams. Change and Integration Support: Ability to contribute to operational transitions, process testing, knowledge transfer, and the implementation of sustainable accounting practices. Benefits: Remote Work: Fully remote contract opportunity within the United States. Initial Contract Duration: Six-month contract, with the possibility of extension depending on workload and business needs. Hands-On Responsibility: Opportunity to take ownership of important intercompany accounting and transfer pricing deliverables. Systems and Process Improvement: Exposure to SAP S/4HANA, SAP PaPM, process stabilization, and automation initiatives. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Opportunity to work with global Finance, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, and technology teams. Business Integration Experience: Involvement in process centralization and the integration of acquired entities into established financial operations. Professional Development: Opportunity to deepen expertise in intercompany accounting, transfer pricing operations, financial controls, and enterprise systems.