Senior Accounting Manager

Telx is a leading provider of interconnection and data center services in strategic, high demand North American markets. With 20 premier C3 Cloud Connection Centers, Telx increases speed to market and reduces connectivity costs by providing direct connections to a community of the industry’s highest performance networks and access to 1,100+ customers, including leading telecommunications carriers, ISPs, cloud providers, content providers and enterprises.

Summary:

This hybrid accounting/finance position is responsible for the end-to-end Capital Projects Cycle at Telx. Responsibilities include the monthly closing of the fixed asset sub-ledger, and ensuring timely and accurate completion of account analysis, reconciliations and reporting requirements. Capital projects account for one of the largest spend categories in the Internet Infrastructure Industry. This is a high visibility role interacting with senior leadership across accounting, finance, and operations. Individual will be responsible to ensure smooth running end-to-end process from budgeting, interaction with operations teams, financial statement disclosure, and analysis and board reporting of capital project data.

Responsibilities:

• Key liaison between finance group and Datacenter Operations teams on expansion projects.
• Redesign end-to-end Capex process to gain efficiency, while ensuring correct accounting in Telx FS and better reporting capabilities to leadership (holistic view, budgeting, purchase ordering, receiving, and accounting).
• In depth analysis of identified accounting related issues, implement changes and revise Fixed Asset policy.
• Research and lead implementation of new fixed assets system in line with Telx’s needs as a high growth company.
• Assist with the budgeting process with regard to capital project related expenses.
• Responsible for Capex accounting, BS reconciliation, audit support relating to fixed assets (one direct report)
• This position is also responsible for the recording of necessary month end accruals and initial reviews of depreciation expense.
• Responsible to accounting/tracking maintenance expenses.
• Lead Capex budget development and tracking responsible for over $80M in annual expenditures.
• Provide updates & data to planning and budgeting group for board presentations
• Perform special projects, ad hoc reports and schedules requested by management

Required Qualifications:

• Must have an outgoing personality, excellent communication skills, and strong oral/written presentation skills.
• Experience with project management strongly preferred
• Experience managing people.
• CPA required, mix of public and private accounting strongly preferred
• Experience in a Big 4 accounting firms a plus.
• Minimum 5–7 years’ experience in accounting and finance.
• Must be able to manage time effectively and work independently and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Advanced skills with Microsoft Excel or other comparable spreadsheet tools. Proficiency with rest of Microsoft Office suite (Access, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Explorer) and or/equivalents.
• Proven organizational ability and attention to detail a must.
• Must be a self-starter, proactive, flexible, and able to work within and meet deadlines.
• Strong PC skills and a working knowledge of accounting packages.

Desired Job Skills/Knowledge:

• Experience with SAP Business One and a fixed asset sub ledger system.
• Experience with capital projects/Fixed asset processes, systems, and issues.
• Must be detail oriented and highly organized with excellent communications, interpersonal and oral/written presentation skills.
• Must be able to manage time effectively and work independently.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Proficiency with rest of Microsoft Office suite (Access, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Explorer) and or/equivalents.
• Proven organizational ability and attention to detail.