Senior Manager, Accounting Payroll

Key Responsibilities

• Possesses knowledge of Shared Services and integrates principles into decisions regarding departmental processes, procedures, and projects.
• Enhance process design across multiple business units to improve scalability and consistency.
• Recommend strategy and implementation design for new business or increased business volumes and integrate into existing processes.
• Monitors and drives the LEAN Educated program and training amongst the team, ensuring implementation of continuous improvement ideas and providing recognition.
• Participates in execution of FSSC strategy for continuous improvements, including influencing the culture within the department to initiate and execute LEAN ideas.
• Initiates and sponsor qualified processes for automation that support the department’s strategic direction on the use of technology (RPA, AI, etc.)
• Continuously build, develop and improve operations, processes, and procedures in Shared Services to support strategic direction through the use of technology (RPA, AI, etc.)
• Participate and execute technology developments that supports the strategic direction of Shared Services.
• Builds and develops personnel to continually sustain a high‐quality and high‐performing team. Manage, develop and engage personnel in a way that motivates and encourages elevated level performance while adapting to the demands of a large‐scale company.
• Evaluates and enhances financial controls and other risk measurement and mitigation elements. Proactively identifies and evaluates issues and potential problems and provides timely solutions.
• Manage service level (SLA) expectations, performance metrics and KPIs. Establish goals, monitor key metrics, execute analysis and reporting and enhances processes as needed to ensure compliance.
• Maintains an understanding of Finance concepts, methods, standards, principles, and technology, and makes sound decisions and recommendations based on that understanding
• Coordinates activities and production of documents for business units/multiple properties and FSSC in response to requests from internal Auditors, independent auditors, and local, state, and federal agencies.
• Ensure journal entries are recorded to accurately reflect appropriate accrual basis accounting transactions for assigned functions in the correct period including accruals of expenses, accruals of revenue, amortization of prepaid expenses, etc.
• Maintain all accounting records and ensure practices adhere to MGM Resorts accounting policies and remain standard across all business units
• Ensure that Company assets are appropriately protected, including collection of rents, avoidance of excess payments, proper authorization for expenditures
• Monitor regulatory business licenses and taxes, property taxes, contractual arrangements and other regulatory reporting requirements are completed and/or paid on a timely basis

Qualification & Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and 2+ years of prior relevant experience

Benefits

• Wellness incentive programs to help you stay healthy physically and mentally.
• Access to company hotel, food and beverage, retail, and entertainment discounts as well as discounts with company partners on things like travel, electronics, online shopping, and more.
• Professional and personal development through programs and networking opportunities
• Health, vision, and dental insurance
• 401k plan
• Professional development opportunities
• Tuition reimbursement
• Exclusive discounts on entertainment, food, hotel stays, and more.