Director of Accounting

Robert Half Management Resources is seeking a strong Director of Accounting to provide immediate leadership and hands-on support for a retail organization in Los Angeles, California. This 4+ month, on-site contract opportunity is well suited for a senior accounting leader who can step into a complex, fast-paced, global multi-entity environment and help ensure accurate, efficient financial operations during a critical period.

The ideal candidate will bring a strong technical accounting foundation, sound professional judgment, and the ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams while driving timely, accurate, and reliable financial reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Lead day-to-day accounting activities, including the preparation, review, and posting of journal entries while supporting a timely month-end close.

• Strengthen accounting operations by helping stabilize processes in a complex global environment and resolving issues that affect financial accuracy.

• Investigate transaction-level accounting problems by analyzing system outputs, account configurations, reporting structures, and journal entry flows.

• Reconcile intercompany activity across domestic and international entities and support the preparation of elimination entries for consolidated reporting.

• Assist with foreign currency translation activities and examine variances that may influence consolidated financial results.

• Review account balances and confirm that prior-period financial information remains accurate throughout remediation and correction efforts.

• Collaborate with Accounting, Finance, FP& A, Shared Services, and IT teams to identify root causes of discrepancies and implement practical solutions.

• Evaluate large sets of transactional and master data to uncover anomalies, reporting errors, and control gaps affecting accounting results.

• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations, perform fluctuation analysis, and communicate financial reporting risks and recommendations to leadership

• Support the accounting team through post-implementation stabilization following a large-scale ERP or system rollout.

• Evaluate the accounting impact of unresolved system issues and communicate associated financial reporting risks to leadership

• Document key findings, recommend process enhancements, and help implement sustainable accounting solutions

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including leadership in roles such as Director of Accounting, Assistant Controller, or Corporate Accounting Manager.
• Strong hands-on expertise in month-end close, journal entries, reconciliations, and financial reporting.
• Deep knowledge of intercompany accounting, eliminations, consolidation processes, and foreign exchange translation.
• Experience working in multi-entity, global accounting environments with complex legal entity structures.
• Familiarity with general ledger design, accounting strings, reporting hierarchies, and close processes, including experience with Oracle Fusion.
• Proven ability to support large-scale implementation follow-up, post-go-live stabilization, or accounting remediation efforts.
• Ability to analyze high volumes of financial data, preserve historical balances, and assess reporting impact from data or process issues.
• CPA preferred, with strong communication skills and the ability to work independently while partnering with senior finance and accounting stakeholders.

Compensation

$95.00-$110.00 Hourly

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