Senior Accounting Manager

Job Description:

Confluent Medical Technologies is dedicated to collaborating with our customers, taking their projects from rapid prototypes to high-volume production. Our unparalleled technical expertise, proven experience, and partnership with our clients have allowed us to perfect the processes necessary to deliver world-class medical devices through innovative materials, science, engineering, and manufacturing methods. Our primary capabilities include nitinol components, balloon-expandable stents and balloon catheters, delivery systems, biomedical textiles, access kits, and guidewires. We take pride in our position as the leader in the medical technology space and are driven by a passion to create products that our clients have envisioned for their customers.

At Confluent, we are committed to our values of teamwork, innovation, accountability, integrity, leadership, and customer focus. We invest in a team that represents these values. Every member of our team plays a critical role in delivering high quality life-saving medical devices. We are the medical device industry's most trusted partner, and we achieve this with an organization focused on safety, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.

We are looking for a Senior Accounting Manager to join our team in Costa Rica. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and making an impact on our life-saving work, this may be a good fit for you! As a uniquely qualified candidate, you will:

Summary: The Country Controller will be responsible for overseeing the accounting operations and ensuring statutory compliance in Costa Rica (CR). The candidate would report to the VP, Corporate Controller in the US. This role requires close collaboration with our US entity and a deep understanding of both CR GAAP and US GAAP accounting standards. The ideal candidate should have experience maintaining dual books for local and US GAAP purposes and a strong background in managing statutory compliance in Costa Rica.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the following cycles in line with the global standards defined by the US Corporate Accounting team: Intercompany Revenue & Receivables, Purchases & Payables, Accounting & Reporting, and Global Fixed Asset accounting.
• Ensure compliance with CR GAAP and US GAAP accounting standards to ensure consolidations and reporting are properly coordinated and aligned with the US Corporate Accounting team.
• Prepare financial statements and reports on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis in both CR GAAP and US GAAP for review by the US Corporate Accounting team.
• Support the US Accounting team in preparing the company’s monthly operating review package that includes results, variance analysis, footnote disclosures, and forecasts for the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statements.
• Implement and maintain CR GAAP and US GAAP books and general ledgers in ERP / system of record, Epicor.
• Manage compliance with all local legal and statutory requirements for Confluent’s entity and operations in Costa Rica, including statutory filings and financial statement audits.
• Co-develop and implement Policies and Procedures in collaboration with the US Corporate Accounting team
• Team regularly with US Corporate Accounting and FP&A team on providing historical information, recasting financials for improved visibility, month-end close & forecasting, and executing the finance & accounting closing calendar ensuring deadlines are met.
• Manage audits and liaise with external auditors and third-party tax advisor on the tax provisions and local tax filings
• Support local FP&A team and Finance Manager in preparing forecasts and budgets.
• Provide ad hoc data / analysis required by senior management of the Company and Confluent USA.

Qualifications:

• Professionally qualified CA (Chartered Accountant) or CWA (Cost and Works Accountant).
• Experience with working for a Costa Rican subsidiary of a US parent (preferred).
• Knowledge of manufacturing cost accounting.
• Knowledge of Free Trade Zone Regime.
• Experience with Epicor (ERP) and Adaptive Planning (Financial Analysis) is beneficial, else experience with upper-quadrant ERP (e.g. NetSuite, Oracle, SAP, D365, TM1, Hyperion etc.) and other business systems (e.g., Blackline, Concur T&E, etc.) is preferred
• MBA in Finance (preferred).
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience in finance and accounting with at least 5 years in a leadership role in this field.
• In-depth knowledge of CR GAAP and US GAAP accounting standards.
• Proven experience with ERP systems and managing dual books.
• Strong understanding of local statutory compliance requirements in Costa Rica.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Strong verbal and oral communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and international counterparts.
• Ability to perform under the demands and challenges of being a private equity backed company.
• Demonstrated success in operating in a “roll-up your sleeves” environment
• Exceptional expertise in MS Excel and PowerPoint to analyze and manage large data sets and transform into information.
• Recognized as a results-oriented teammate and leader who inspires exceptional performance out of others

COMMENTS: This job description is an outline of the major recurring responsibilities of the job. It is not intended to be all-inclusive of the work to be performed. The incumbent will typically perform other related job objectives, special assignments and less significant responsibilities.