Director, Accounting, Retail & Pharmacy Operations-Walgreens

at  Walgreens

JOB SUMMARY

Responsible for directing and managing Inventory Accounting and Cost of Sales controllership activities for the Walgreens business (8,500 stores) across multiple onshore and offshore teams, including Rx and RP Accounting, Distribution Center Accounting and Rebate Accounting. Oversees the month end close process, internal controls, procedures and policies, reporting and partnering with business and finance related to this area of accounting.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 6 years of experience in an analytical role in finance, accounting, business management, or audit or High School Diploma/GED and at least 9 years of experience in an analytical role in finance, accounting, business management, or audit.
• Experience working with financial accounting regulations.
• Experience with GAAP and financial statement analysis, preparation, and reporting.
• Experience in identifying operational issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems.
• Experience developing and delivering presentations to various audience levels within an organization.
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).
• At least 2 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.
• At least 3 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross functional team leadership
• Willing to travel up to 15% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 8 years of experience in an analytical role in finance, accounting, business management, or audit or High School Diploma/GED and at least 11 years of experience in an analytical role in finance, accounting, business management, or audit.
• Master’s degree in Accounting or MBA
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• CPA designation
• Advanced level skill in Microsoft Excel (using multiple sheets and workbooks, logical Operators ("AND” and “OR"), creating charts, and pivot tables).

• Directly leads and owns a designated functional area of Accounting with meaningful size and/or supports a single business unit with meaningful size and financial contribution to the organization.
• Directs and controls the general accounting activities, including recording company transactions, classifications, and reconciliation of account balances in accordance with GAAP and company policy.
• Establishes project teams, assigns responsibilities, and facilitates meetings to ensure timely goal attainment.
• Mentors, coaches, and develops employees through orientation, training, establishment of objectives, communication of policies and rules, and constructive discipline; builds morale and motivation. May be responsible for managing retained and outsourced staff and for providing successful service levels according to the defined Statement of Work established by the Company’s management team.
• Prepares management reports and participates in presenting monthly accounting results to senior management.
• Supports the development and implementation of accounting systems and controls; directs the documentation of accounting procedures; ensures implementation of requisite system changes to support the business units and new programs.
• Ensures compliance with accounting principles and adherence with company policy in the business units; implements new policies and changes based on the recommendation and research provided by the Corporate Accounting External Reporting and Research group.
• Plans, recommends and implements the annual expense and capital budgets.
• Works with the external public accountants in planning and executing the annual audit for Walgreens’ business units.
• Partners with other areas within Accounting to ensure the proper recording of business transactions.
• Leads Accounting Managers or other support staff as necessary for department operations. Builds employee engagement, morale and motivation. Teaches and trains business partners in all accounting matters to help raise accounting acumen within department.
• Actively participates in VCS organization planning and development activities.