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Reporting to the CEO, this role manages two on-site accounting/finance employees and an outsourced accounting vendor to ensure accurate, timely financial information across the business.\nThis role also serves as the company’s primary financial liaison to its investors and lenders - including its private-equity-backed majority investor - and leads the annual audit in partnership with an outside audit firm.\nSimon Pearce is a growth-oriented business, and this role is central to building the financial foundation - people, process, and technology - needed to support that growth, including a strong partnership with operations and commercial leadership and a mandate to modernize finance through AI and automation.\nSimon Pearce offers competitive pay and a benefit package that includes: medical, dental, and vision coverage, employer paid life & disability, paid time off, flexible holiday time, 401k retirement plan with employer match, and tuition reimbursement assistance. Additionally, we offer exclusive employee discounts on both our glass and pottery products and at our restaurant.\nPrimary Duties and Responsibilities:\nOwns the financial results of Simon Pearce US, ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of all financial reporting.\nManages two on-site accounting employees and oversees the relationship with an outsourced accounting vendor, ensuring a reliable, well-controlled monthly close and reporting cadence.\nPrepares and presents the monthly MD&A, covering financial performance, key variances, and business drivers for leadership.\nLeads the annual budgeting process and ongoing forecasting, partnering with department leaders across the organization to support the company’s growth plans.\nActs as a true business partner to operations and commercial/retail leaders - not just reporting the numbers but proactively bringing financial insight and analysis that helps those teams run their businesses better and make sharper decisions.\nLeads NetSuite usage within accounting ensuring the system is configured and used effectively to support accurate, timely financial reporting \nContinuously identifies and implements process improvements, automation, and AI tools to increase the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of finance and accounting operations.\nMaintains and strengthens internal controls; ensures compliance with GAAP and other applicable reporting requirements.\nMonitors cash position and working capital and manages lender reporting and covenant compliance to maintain a well-managed, appropriately leveraged capital structure.\nServes as the primary financial liaison to Simon Pearce’s investors, including its private-equity-backed majority investor, providing regular financial reporting, analysis, and responses to investor requests.\nLeads the annual audit in partnership with the outside audit firm, managing the process end-to-end from planning through completion.\nManages relationships with tax advisors, banks, lenders, and other third parties as needed.\nAll other duties as assigned.\nQualifications\nQualifications Required:\nMinimum of 10 years of progressive accounting/finance experience, including experience leading a finance or accounting team.\nHands-on experience with a company-wide ERP and accounting system is paramount.\nExperience managing outsourced accounting/finance functions or vendor relationships.\nDemonstrated track record of driving process improvement and adopting new technology - including AI tools - within a finance organization.\nStrong knowledge of GAAP, financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting.\nExcellent communication skills, with the ability to translate financial data into clear insight for non-finance leaders.\nExperience with lender reporting, debt covenant compliance, and operating within a leveraged capital structure.\nQualifications Desired:\nDirect experience with NetSuite.\nExperience in retail, consumer products, or manufacturing is a plus.\nExperience working with private equity investors and leading external audits is strongly preferred.\nSuccess Factor / Job Competencies:\nConstantly looking for ways to leverage technology and AI to improve finance processes, rather than accepting the status quo.\nHighly analytical and detail-oriented while maintaining a clear view of the big picture.\nPassionate about developing direct reports and skilled at providing constructive feedback.\nSets the example of integrity and trust.\nExcellent communication skills.\nCredible with internal stakeholders and external audiences, including investors, lenders, and auditors.\nComfortable meeting with/presenting to executives and the company’s investors.\nSolid analytical, problem identification, and problem-solving skills.\nExperience managing outside vendors and consultants, with strong negotiation skills.\nAbility to maintain a demanding schedule in a dynamic, growth-oriented environment.\nPhysical Demands and Work Environment:\nThe physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.\nWhile performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.\nSimon Pearce is committed to the policy of equal employment opportunity and to provide all employees with the work environment necessary to enable them to advance on merit as far as their talents and skills will take them, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, status as a protected class of veteran, or any other legally protected status.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6774,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan","Equity","Retirement plans"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Home Decor"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-29T14:14:09Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":40,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.731,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":32,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:0","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-11-01T06:10:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/simon-pearce-vp-finance-accounting","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/simon-pearce-vp-finance-accounting.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-01T14:05:36Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":21706,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-02T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1915266},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1915266"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsimon-pearce-vp-finance-accounting"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsimon-pearce-vp-finance-accounting"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsimon-pearce-vp-finance-accounting"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/simon-pearce-vp-finance-accounting\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsimon-pearce-vp-finance-accounting"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":1464480}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"simonpearce.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":1464480},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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