Director of Accounting, Shared Services

Company: Vail Resorts
Location: Broomfield
Posted on: March 24, 2020

Job Description:

Reach Your Peak at Vail Resorts. As a community of adventurers and discoverers, Vail Resorts delivers an experience of a lifetime to our guests and our employees. Our team is made whole by the brave, passionate individuals who ambitiously push boundaries and challenge the status quo. Whether youre looking for seasonal work or the career of a lifetime, join us today to reach your peak.Job Classification: Year RoundJob Type: Full TimeLocation: BroomfieldVail Resorts is literally re-imagining an entire industry. To do that, we are hiring and developing brave, ambitious and passionate people who possess a sense of urgency, who never settle, and who are seeking a professional experience of a lifetime. Working at Vail Resorts is about integrating who you are with what you do, aligning your ambitions with your passions, and pushing yourself to your fullest potential.As a publicly-traded company that has a strong focus on growth, organically and through acquisition, we are seeking individuals who are willing to explore every part of their work and every part of themselves to find new ways to make a meaningful impact on our fast-paced, growing business.Our Corporate Accounting team is hiring a new leader to become the Director of Shared Services. This team drives centralization of transactional processes within our corporate headquarters in Broomfield, CO. Our Shared Services organization works closely with the CAO and senior management team to drive further scalability in anticipation of maintaining our growth trajectory. The Director, Shared Services reports to the Senior Director of Shared Services and is based in the Companys Broomfield, Colorado headquarters.Job Summary:This role is integral in providing strategic and business leadership to continue building and re-imagining the global shared services function and to drive process transformation in our transactional processing activities. The goals of the transformation will be to operate a consolidated, sustainable & efficient global shared services organization with a focus on increasing the level of scalability as Vail Resorts continues to grow. Specifically, the transformation will include improving business processes, driving results by providing greater transparency into service level agreements, creating efficiencies through innovative solutions, with a focus on standardization, process optimization and improved governance.Job Responsibilities:

• Lead and continue to develop and re-imagine a sustainable Global Shared Services Finance organization and processes that are clearly aligned with the business strategy.
• Primary areas of leadership include:
• AR Credit, Billing & Collections
• Accounts Payable accurate and timely payments including T&E
• Credit Card Transaction Processing
• Oversee the design, development, and deployment of standard processes across the shared service organization
• Monthly reconciliation and review responsibilities
• Monthly journal entry preparation and review responsibilities
• Partner with other Finance executives and their respective teams to maintain and enhance the existing processes in the global Finance shared services center.
• Identify opportunities across Finance organization to support process efficiency and automation opportunities that could be integrated into shared service organization
• Act as a point of escalation for finance and business process owners and ensure timely remediation of issues.
• Review existing processes, structures, and systems with a focus on simplifying and standardizing them.
• Benchmark shared services organization against other companies to identify and implement process improvements.
• Align the shared services organization structure and processes as well as employee skills and responsibilities to stakeholder needs.
• Develop and report Key Performance Indicators on SLAs with a focus on providing higher quality service as well as transparency to the internal customers with the use of monthly metrics.
• Implement a governance structure so that we improve alignment with key stakeholders.
• Improve internal control environment to more efficiently monitor transaction risk and financial exposure.
• Contribute to the shared leadership of the Controllers organization by participating as one of five key leaders in the organization, cultivating a culture of authentic leadership based on candor, respect and dignity, while professionally challenging each member of the team to the highest standard of professionalism and accountability.
• Evaluate, prioritizes, and overseas deployment of relevant enabling technology.Job Requirements:
  • Minimum of 10 years of progressive/management work experience in the shared services & transformation.
  • CPA, MBA or Masters Degree in Accounting or Finance preferred.
  • Strong financial, IT and analytical skills coupled with operational focus.
  • Proven track record and a good level of comfort with driving innovation & leading organizational changes.
  • Experience building and leading highly effective teams.
  • Seasoned leadership capabilities with a focus on coaching individuals/teams to reach their potential.We offer a variety of career opportunities at our world-class resorts and corporate headquarters near Boulder, Colorado in fields like Finance & Accounting, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal, Public Affairs & Sustainability, Marketing, Sales & Communications and more. Our corporate team shares both a passion for the outdoors and a drive to re-imagine the mountain resort experience around the world. Learn more at www.vailresortscareers.comVail Resorts is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law.VRACTRequisition ID 212147

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