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Skechers

Global footwear, apparel, and accessories brand

Coordenador Contábil

Financial AccountingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSão Paulo, State of São Paulo, BrazilNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Completed higher education in Accounting.
  • Active CRC registration.
  • Solid accounting experience, preferably in multinational companies.
  • Relevant experience with monthly, quarterly, and annual accounting close.
  • Solid knowledge of CPC and BR GAAP.
  • Knowledge of US GAAP and experience reporting to an international headquarters are important differentiators.
  • Experience with accounting reconciliations, balance sheet analysis, provisions, accruals, fixed assets, and financial statements.
  • Experience in retail, consumer goods, fashion, or footwear companies is strongly valued.
  • Knowledge of inventory, cost of goods sold, stock counts, company-owned stores, and high transaction volumes is a relevant differentiator.
  • Experience with internal and external audits.
  • Experience with a large-scale ERP; strong knowledge of Oracle is highly desired.
  • Experience in ERP implementation or transformation projects is a differentiator.
  • Advanced Excel.
  • Knowledge of business intelligence, automation, artificial intelligence, or robotic process automation tools is valued.
  • Advanced English, with the ability to participate in meetings, exchange information, and interact with the United States headquarters.
  • Strong analytical ability and attention to detail.
  • Organization and discipline to work with strict close calendars.
  • Ability to work with high volumes of information and transactions.
  • Urgency and commitment to deadlines.
  • Solution-oriented approach.
  • Hands-on approach, participating in activities when necessary.
  • Ability to coordinate, guide, and develop the team.
  • Assertive and objective communication.
  • Ability to work in a multicultural environment, with resilience and flexibility for frequent interaction with the international headquarters.
  • Process and controls orientation.
  • Continuous-improvement, automation, and simplification mindset.
  • Initiative and proactivity.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate and execute monthly, quarterly, and annual accounting close, ensuring information quality and compliance with local and corporate calendars.
  • Organize the close calendar, assign responsibilities, and monitor deliverables from the different participating areas.
  • Ensure accurate recording of the company's financial, commercial, and operational transactions.
  • Review accounting entries, provisions, accruals, reclassifications, and other close adjustments.
  • Coordinate and review balance sheet and income statement account reconciliations, ensuring discrepancies are identified and resolved.
  • Perform critical analyses of key accounts and period variances.
  • Ensure adequate supporting documentation for entries, balances, and accounting movements.
  • Support the Manager in preparing close information and consolidated information for the CFO and headquarters.
  • Ensure correct application of Brazilian accounting practices (BR GAAP/CPC) and applicable corporate standards.
  • Apply US GAAP knowledge to support reconciliations, adjustments, and headquarters reporting requirements.
  • Prepare and review trial balances, balance sheets, income statements, and other financial statements and accounting information.
  • Ensure consistency between the general ledger, subledgers, and operational systems.
  • Maintain well-organized chart of accounts, cost centers, and accounting structures.
  • Oversee accounting for fixed assets, depreciation, leases, provisions, prepaid expenses, accruals, and other relevant transactions.
  • Ensure adequate documentation and traceability of accounting information.
  • Ensure correct accounting for company-owned stores, wholesale, and e-commerce operations.
  • Monitor accounting for sales, returns, discounts, payment methods, acquirers, marketplaces, and transactions across different channels.
  • Perform and/or review reconciliations of sales and receipts, ensuring consistency between sales systems, payment methods, and Accounting.
  • Work with Cost Accounting and other areas on inventory, stock counts, cost of goods sold, stock adjustments, losses, and provisions.
  • Monitor accounting for store openings and closures, investments, capital expenditures, and assets related to operational expansion.
  • Ensure appropriate accounting for contracts and significant business transactions, including leases and other store-related obligations.
  • Ensure compliance with the company's and headquarters' accounting and financial policies.
  • Strengthen accounting internal controls to reduce risk and improve information reliability.
  • Document departmental processes, procedures, and controls.
  • Identify accounting weaknesses and risks and propose corrective and preventive actions.
  • Ensure appropriate access controls, approvals, segregation of duties, and documentation for processes under the role's responsibility.
  • Work closely with the Financial Controllership Manager on compliance and governance matters.
  • Serve as a key Accounting contact for internal and external audits.
  • Prepare information, documents, reconciliations, and evidence requested by auditors.
  • Follow up on audit findings and ensure corresponding action plans are completed.
  • Maintain documentation and controls ready for audits and corporate reviews.
  • Support preparation of accounting information requested by the United States headquarters.
  • Ensure compliance with corporate close calendars and procedures.
  • Prepare analyses, reconciliations, and explanations of significant variances.
  • Participate in meetings with international finance and accounting teams as needed.
  • Support the Financial Controllership Manager with consolidated reports and other corporate requests.
  • Actively participate in ERP and financial-system implementation, migration, or enhancement projects.
  • Represent Accounting in requirements gathering, process design, testing, validation, and implementation of new solutions.
  • Work on integrations between ERP, sales/POS, inventory, e-commerce, and other systems that generate Accounting information.
  • Identify opportunities to automate reconciliations, entries, controls, and close processes.
  • Reduce manual activities and increase the reliability of information.
  • Use data analysis, automation, artificial intelligence, and/or robotic process automation tools to improve productivity and process quality.
  • Participate in continuous-improvement, simplification, and standardization initiatives for accounting processes.

Desired Qualifications

  • Knowledge of US GAAP and experience reporting to an international headquarters.
  • Experience in retail, consumer goods, fashion, or footwear companies.
  • Knowledge of inventory, cost of goods sold, stock counts, company-owned stores, and high transaction volumes.
  • Strong knowledge of Oracle.
  • Experience in ERP implementation or transformation projects.
  • Knowledge of business intelligence, automation, artificial intelligence, or robotic process automation tools.

About the Company

Skechers

Global footwear, apparel, and accessories brand

Skechers makes a wide range of comfortable lifestyle and performance footwear, plus apparel and accessories for men, women, and kids. Its products are designed to be stylish and affordable, and they are sold through two main channels: wholesale to department and specialty stores, and direct-to-consumer through Skechers’ own stores and its online shop. The company builds its catalog to cover many activities and styles, emphasizing comfort, value, and broad appeal. It differentiates itself from competitors through its large, global product lineup and extensive distribution network that combines both wholesale partners and direct-to-consumer retail. Skechers’ goal is to grow revenue and expand its global presence by reaching more customers across multiple markets and sales channels.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Manhattan Beach, CA
Founded
1992

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