Title:  Manager, Financial Reporting SEC

About Us:

Stericycle is a U.S. based business-to-business services company and leading provider of compliance-based solutions that protects people and brands, promotes health and well-being, and safeguards the environment. Since our founding over 30 years ago, we have grown from a small start-up in medical waste management into a leader across a range of increasingly complex and highly regulated arenas, serving healthcare organizations and commercial businesses of every size. Every day, we help our customers solve complex challenges by safely managing materials that could otherwise spread disease, contaminate the environment, or compromise one’s identity.

Join us on our mission to protect health and well-being in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way.

This is hybrid position, the candidate will report into the Bannockburn office Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays.

Position Purpose:

Reporting to the Director, Technical Accounting and Financial Reporting at Stericycle, the role is considered a highly visible role within Stericycle.  The role will be an essential member of the Controller’s team, providing financial reporting (internal and external), technical accounting, financial policy, process, and control expertise to the organization. The Controller’s group interacts closely with other members of the organization including accounting operations, Corporate FP&A, Finance, Corporate Reporting & Consolidations, Financial Shared Service, Investor Relations, Tax, Legal and external auditors to ensure accurate financial reporting/disclosures and full compliance with all external standards.

Key Job Activities:

• Lead project management, preparation, and review of all external reporting with the SEC including 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K (Earnings Release). External reporting includes six key areas: financial statement preparation, press release creation, script preparation, supporting presentation, internal communication, and SEC compliance.  Support the highest levels of consistency and cohesiveness in messaging across all areas. Statutory reporting includes compliance with local country financial and tax reporting requirements via project managing the planning, preparation, review, and approval/issuance.
• Utilize your experience to further evolve disclosures and communications and take the initiative to be informed on leading trends on best practices for external reporting.  Benchmark these factors against other world class companies and interact with subject matter experts to provide insightful recommendations (e.g., disclosure effectiveness, SEC comment letter trends, strategic initiative communication, and emerging technologies).   Evolve external reporting to better disclose and articulate (i.) the primary business strategies and their impact on results, and (ii.)  improved transparency around the items we consider to be Non-GAAP or Adjusting items.
• In the area of Statutory reporting:
  • Leading timely completion and compliance of international statutory reporting and audit requirements through monitoring of key dates (using a variety of project management and workflow tools (e.g., excel, SharePoint, and internal LEAD – Statutory repository browser).
  • Reviewing global statutory filings and reconciliations to US GAAP to ensure consistency of disclosures between US SEC filings and local filings, as well as understanding any differences in reporting or accounting principles applied between US filings and local filings. 
  • Preparing dashboard reporting on Statutory audit and filing status for all international entities, escalating issues and remediating project plans.
• Support the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure process for external reporting and work on the evolution of the reporting framework and metrics with the ESG group. 
• Participate and responsible for certain specialty accounting areas (e.g., stock-based compensation and earnings per share) 
• Operate cross functionally within the controllership to leverage external reporting responsibilities with consolidations, technical accounting and internal controls that enables the controllership to provide best in class accounting and reporting services to business unit and executive management and broader finance/accounting teams.  
• Support various consolidation activities that connect into technical or external reporting areas consolidated financial statements, impacts of non-routine transaction (acquisitions, divestitures, impairments, etc.), legal entities transactions, among other activities.  
• Maintain SOX and other required documentation to support the Company’s internal control environment and satisfy external audit requirements.
• Work on special projects identified by senior management to find strategic solutions to issues facing a growing international company. This includes participation in trends in disclosures in areas such as system implementation, workflow automation, segment reporting, acquisitions, valuations, due diligence, divestitures, and necessary public filings due to transactions.
• The role will work to drive the integrity, accuracy and transparency of our controllership commitments and identify and implement sustainable process and control improvements

Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting and/or related education preferred
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in accounting, reporting and finance roles/activities of increasing responsibility in public accounting and/or corporate finance/accounting
• Experience in a more than $0.25 billion, multi-national company
• Must possess knowledge of US GAAP
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills 
• Strong analytical skills and ability to focus on details
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment
• Experience in effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills capable of interacting with staff, peers, and senior leadership competently and effectively.
• Have a desire and flexibility to learn new things
• Certified Public Accountant designation (preferable)
• Public company experience (preferable)
• Experience with SEC reporting tools such as Workiva (preferable)
• Experience with consolidations tools – SAP/BPC or equivalent (preferable)

Certifications and/or Licenses:

Benefits:

Stericycle currently offers its employees the option to participate in a full range of benefits, including a health care program which includes medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage, healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts, life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, an employee assistance program, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation, and sick time, a 401(k) plan, and an employee stock purchase plan. Participation in some programs requires that employees be regularly scheduled to work a minimum number of hours and/or to have fulfilled a waiting period after they begin employment with Stericycle.

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Disclaimer:

The above description is meant to provide a summary of the nature and level of work being performed; it should not be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and requirements of the job. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, and it does not constitute any right or guarantee of employment condition. This position is open to people with disabilities. Stericycle will consider requests for workplace accommodations for protected physical or mental limitations in accordance with its human resources and risks prevention policies and local laws. To the extent permissible under local law, and consistent with business necessity, Stericycle reserves the right to modify the content formally or informally, either verbally or in writing, at any time with or without advance notice.