Director, Accounting Services

Mativ is a global leader in specialty materials headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. The Company offers a wide range of critical components and engineered solutions that connect, protect, and purify our world. 

Position: Director Accounting Shared Services

Location: Alpharetta, GA (hybrid)

Position Description:

The Director Accounting Shared Services leads the optimization, governance, and transformation of shared services.   The position provides leadership for accounting services across multiple locations and technology platforms globally and in the Americas, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, intercompany, travel and expense, other business services activities, and the related monthly close in compliance with accounting policies and internal controls. The Director will be responsible for integrating strategic objectives with operational excellence, building high-performing teams, and delivering exceptional service to internal and external customers.  This role blends expertise with digital transformation leadership and partnering closely with business, technology and global capability center teams.

Key Responsibilities

Accounting Operations & Reporting

• Build, and direct accounting services across accounts payable, accounts receivable, intercompany, T&E expense, and other business services.
• Oversee quality, compliance, and responsive customer service both internal and outsourced delivery teams in compliance with U.S. GAAP and company policies.
• Lead monthly close for accounting services functions, ensuring accurate and timely reporting.
• Ensure high-quality review processes for journal entry processing, fluctuation explanations, and other analyses required to support business processes.
• Ensure all balance sheet accounts are reconciled with adequate supporting records and consideration of the validity of the support, the aging of activity in the account, and timely resolution of reconciling items.
• Support budgeting and forecasting and control department costs to deliver scalable, high-quality services efficiently.

Outsourced Services Oversight

• Own the accounting services relationship with outsourced providers, establishing clear service scope, responsibilities, deliverables, escalation paths, and retained company accountabilities.
• Define and monitor service-level agreements (SLAs) and key performance indicators (KPIs) for accuracy, timeliness, backlog, issue resolution, and customer service; lead recurring operational and governance reviews.
• Review service-provider results and recurring errors, require root-cause analysis and corrective action plans, and track remediation through resolution.
• Lead service-provider transitions through knowledge transfer, standard operating procedure development, training, transition readiness, and post-transition stabilization, ensuring effective controls and uninterrupted service during implementation.
• Coordinate internal teams and service providers on priorities, close deadlines, resource coverage, and exception handling; escalate significant delivery or compliance risks promptly.
• Monitor outsourced service costs and capacity against agreed scope and budgets, coordinating proposed scope changes with Procurement, Legal, and Finance leadership as appropriate.
• Maintain business continuity and backup coverage expectations with service providers, including current process documentation and knowledge retention.

Controls, Compliance & Audit

• Maintain strong internal controls and governance across internal and outsourced accounting services, ensuring compliance with SOX and company policies.
• Ensure review and approval responsibilities remain with authorized company personnel in accordance with retained controls and segregation-of-duties requirements.
• Partner with IT and control owners to oversee appropriate service-provider system access, periodic access reviews, and timely escalation and remediation of control exceptions.
• Collaborate with internal and external auditors to coordinate audit support, obtain complete supporting evidence from service providers, and resolve findings.
• Maintain historical records in accordance with the Company’s Corporate Records Retention Policy, ensuring documentation remains available for financial reporting, tax audits, and other business needs.

Leadership & Business Partnership

• Develop, coach, and mentor the accounting services team to build professional capability, support growth, and maximize potential.
• Partner with Treasury, Tax, Corporate Development, Corporate Reporting, FP&A, and Business Operations to optimize end-to-end workflows and drive value creation.
• Serve as a business and subject matter expert for accounting services, providing guidance to Americas and international accounting teams on corporate-driven activities and controlled, consistent processes.

Process Improvement & Transformation

• Drive continuous improvement through design, implementation, and maintaining best-in-class accounting processes and systems to improve efficiency and scalability across internal and outsourced services, including:
  • Advance automation initiatives and other system-enabling tools and capabilities.
  • Harmonize process-improvement KPIs to evaluate automation and operations.
  • Lead projects to standardize and optimize accounting tasks.
• Deliver insights and recommendations based on performance and operational efficiency.

Tax & Statutory Support

• Ensure statutory and legal entity accounting, reporting, and compliance requirements are in place and operating effectively, supporting Tax and other compliance functions.
• Coordinate internal teams and outsourced service providers to deliver complete, accurate, and timely accounting information and support documentation for tax and statutory requirements.

Other

• Maintain historical records in accordance with the Company’s Corporate Records Retention Policy, while ensuring critical documents are maintained appropriately to support financial reporting, tax audit and other needs.
• Additional duties and projects assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting with 12 years total experience in a large accounting services environment
• Experience overseeing outsourced or shared-service accounting delivery, including service governance, SLA and KPI monitoring
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage a team to meet deadlines with the production of high quality, accurate work product
• Experience with leading projects and project teams focused on process improvement
• Strong knowledge of internal controls, U.S. GAAP and Sarbanes-Oxley requirements
• Exceptional analytical skills and attention to detail
• Willing to be hands on and dive into details
• Strategic agility and problem-solving capability
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced high energy environment
• Experience with large ERP systems and other enabling system platforms such as Concur and Medius Flow AP automation
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Advanced MS Office Skills; Advanced Excel
• Manufacturing accounting experience preferred

Note: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the incumbent.

WHAT WE OFFER

At Mativ, our benefits reflect how much we value and care for each other. We know that employees and their families have unique needs, so our comprehensive benefits offer flexibility, quality, and affordability. Here are just a few of the ways we support your well-being and that of your loved ones:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Consumer-Driven Health Plan (CDHP)
• Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)
• Exclusive Provider Organization (EPO)
• Company-paid basic life insurance and Additional voluntary life coverage
• Paid vacation and competitive personal time off
• 401(k) savings plan with company match
• Employee assistance programs – available 24/7 to you and your family
• Wellness and Work Life Support - career development and educational assistance

ABOUT MATIV

Mativ Holdings, Inc. is a global leader in specialty materials headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. The company connects, protects, and purifies the world every day through a wide range of critical components and engineered solutions that solve our customers’ most complex challenges. We manufacture on three continents and generate sales in nearly 100 countries through our family of business-to-business and consumer product brands. The company’s two segments, Filtration & Advanced Materials and Sustainable & Adhesive Solutions, target premium applications across diversified and growing end-markets, from filtration to healthcare to sustainable packaging and more. Our broad portfolio of technologies combines polymers, fibers, and resins to optimize the performance of our customers’ products across multiple stages of the value chain. Our leading positions are a testament to our best-in-class global manufacturing, supply chain, and materials science capabilities. We drive innovation and enhance performance, finding potential in the impossible.

Mativ and its subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity Employers. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.