Director, Finance Control

2 months ago


Hoboken, United States Pearson Education, Inc. Full time
Pearson Education, Inc. - Director, Finance Control

Location: Hoboken, NJ

Job Description:

  1. Perform regular balance sheet reviews to provide insight into the balance sheet position and health of the division.
  2. Ensure the integrity and accuracy of financial reporting for NA in accordance with Pearson policies and practices.
  3. Work with Global Process Owners and Financial Operations team to set performance metrics for the processes in scope, identifying actions to improve where results are below expectations.
  4. Ensure the NA business divisions operate in line with control and process standards and comply with SOX 404 requirements.
  5. Ensure Balance Sheet reconciliations are completed to an appropriate quality on a timely basis, with action plans to resolve all reconciling items.
  6. Preparation and coordination of “Large and Unusual” processes for NA, identifying commercial and operational issues requiring involvement of technical experts within Group Accounting.
  7. Prepare accounting papers documenting methodologies used and apply Pearson accounting policies where necessary.
  8. Prepare accounting papers supporting significant accounting judgements.
  9. Work closely with Finance Global Process owners to ensure process issues are highlighted and resolved, supporting the identification of continuous improvement and automation opportunities across finance processes.
  10. Drive implementation of global Finance processes, policies, and controls within the team.
  11. Build a network of partnerships internally and externally to help drive team performance improvement.

Job Requirements:

  1. Requires four (4) years of experience in financial control or a related occupation, and a professional accounting license (CPA, CA, or equivalent).
  2. Must have four (4) years of experience in:
    1. Technical accounting
    2. Practical application of technical accounting skills
    3. Finance transformation, data stewardship, and design and process insight analysis in a global consulting practice or a large multinational company
    4. SOX control frameworks applicable to a large multinational company
    5. Excel (advanced formulas, tables, formatting, conditional formatting, advanced charting, pivot tables)
    6. Interpreting data and recommending action on a variety of analyses
    7. ERP systems
  3. Must have three (3) years of experience in audit field experience.
  4. Must have two (2) years of experience in EPM and BI systems and data models.

40 hours/week, 9:00am-5:00pm.

To apply: Send your resume to Michael Kearton, Pearson, 221 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030.

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