Director of Corporate Accounting

Director of Corporate Accounting

Location: Alpharetta, GA

Schedule: Hybrid, 2–3 days onsite per week

Compensation: $180,000–$185,000 base salary plus 20% bonus

For an exceptional candidate: Compensation may flex higher

Employment Type: Direct Hire

About the Opportunity

A rapidly growing global manufacturing organization is seeking a Director of Corporate Accounting to join its corporate finance leadership team during a major period of transformation, growth, and modernization.

This is not a maintenance-mode accounting role. This is a high-impact opportunity for a CPA with Big 4 experience, strong controllership expertise, and deep SAP S/4HANA experience to help lead a major ERP transformation while strengthening the accounting function for future scale.

The company is going through significant growth and operational change, including a major acquisition, new leadership across the business, and preparation for an important next stage of corporate maturity. This role will be highly visible and will play a key part in building scalable accounting processes, improving controls, supporting system transformation, and helping shape a public-company-ready finance infrastructure.

Position Overview

Reporting to the VP, Controller, the Director of Corporate Accounting will lead corporate accounting operations while serving as a key finance leader in the company’s SAP S/4HANA implementation. This person will act as a bridge between accounting, finance leadership, internal stakeholders, and external implementation partners.

The ideal candidate has a strong public accounting foundation, an active CPA, hands-on SAP S/4HANA experience, and the ability to operate in a complex, multi-ERP environment. This role requires someone who can manage core controllership responsibilities while also driving process improvement, implementation readiness, internal controls, and post-implementation best practices.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who wants to step into a highly visible Director-level role with meaningful influence, executive exposure, and potential long-term growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead corporate accounting operations, including month-end close, journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, variance analysis, and financial reporting accuracy.
• Serve as a key accounting leader in a greenfield SAP S/4HANA implementation.
• Partner with finance leadership, IT, accounting teams, implementation consultants, and external service providers to support SAP design, testing, integration, and rollout.
• Provide accounting leadership around SAP finance modules, including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, and Profitability Analysis.
• Help standardize global accounting processes and workflows as the company migrates from multiple legacy ERPs into one SAP S/4HANA environment.
• Ensure accuracy and integrity of financial data across a complex, multi-system accounting environment.
• Support public-company readiness initiatives, including SOX compliance, internal control documentation, process design, and audit support.
• Design, document, and enforce scalable accounting policies, procedures, and controls aligned with US GAAP and elevated reporting standards.
• Partner with external auditors and internal stakeholders to prepare audit documentation and resolve accounting or control-related questions.
• Identify opportunities to improve automation, reporting, controls, and accounting efficiency through SAP, BlackLine, Power BI, and other finance technology tools.
• Translate SAP and accounting data into meaningful insights, dashboards, KPIs, and reporting for leadership.
• Support post-implementation best practices, process optimization, workflow design, and future-state accounting transformation.
• Help build out the accounting organization over time, including defining roles, responsibilities, processes, and team structure.
• Lead special projects and ad hoc reporting as needed by finance leadership.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Active CPA license required.
• Big 4 public accounting experience required.
• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including experience in complex corporate accounting or controllership environments.
• Strong hands-on SAP S/4HANA experience required.
• Experience supporting or leading SAP S/4HANA implementations, ideally in a greenfield or large-scale transformation environment.
• Strong understanding of US GAAP, SOX compliance, internal controls, financial reporting, and audit readiness.
• Experience working in a multi-ERP, multi-entity, or complex systems environment.
• Proven ability to lead accounting process improvement, standardization, and transformation initiatives.
• Advanced Excel skills, including lookups, pivot tables, financial models, and data analysis.
• Strong communication, leadership, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to partner cross-functionally with finance, accounting, IT, operations, external consultants, and executive leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Manufacturing industry experience.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA finance modules, including GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, and Profitability Analysis.
• Experience supporting public-company readiness, SOX buildout, or elevated reporting/control environments.
• Experience with BlackLine, Power BI, AP/AR automation tools, or other finance transformation platforms.
• Experience leveraging automation, analytics, AI, or machine learning tools to improve accounting processes.
• Prior experience building, mentoring, or scaling an accounting team.
• Strong potential to grow into broader finance leadership over time.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a CPA with Big 4 experience who has moved into corporate accounting or controllership and has been deeply involved in SAP S/4HANA implementation or transformation work.

This person should be able to roll up their sleeves on accounting operations while also operating as a strategic transformation leader. They should be comfortable working through ambiguity, partnering with senior finance leadership, influencing stakeholders, and helping build a scalable accounting function during a major growth period.

This is a strong fit for someone who wants more than a traditional accounting role — someone who wants ownership, visibility, transformation work, and a clear opportunity to help shape the next phase of a growing company.

Why This Role Is Compelling

• High-impact Director-level role with direct exposure to senior finance leadership.
• Opportunity to help lead a major SAP S/4HANA implementation.
• Key role in building future-state accounting processes, controls, and workflows.
• Opportunity to support public-company-ready infrastructure without being in a purely compliance-focused seat.
• Significant company growth driven by acquisition and transformation.
• Opportunity to help build out the accounting team and define the future structure.
• Strong compensation package with bonus potential.
• Hybrid schedule with flexibility.
• Great culture, strong leadership, and meaningful long-term growth potential.