We Go Beyond:
At Bed Bath & Beyond , we believe that everyone should “Be You!”. Bed Bath & Beyond is a community that upholds a culture of understanding, acceptance, and respect. We believe a person’s individuality, traits, beliefs, and characteristics should be valued and embraced. Living by this ethos is essential to the success of our business. Our goal is to foster a more inclusive environment where every employee visibly demonstrates inclusive behaviors and respect for individuals.
What You’ll Do
· Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, ensuring accurate, timely, and well-controlled financial results.
· Own complex consolidations across multiple entities, business lines, systems, and intercompany relationships.
· Support public company reporting requirements by overseeing consolidated financial statement preparation, close schedules, accounting analyses, and audit-ready support for SEC filings.
· Maintain and improve close procedures, account reconciliation standards, review protocols, and internal control documentation.
· Partner with technology, finance, operations, and business leaders on ERP, consolidation, reporting, account reconciliation, and workflow automation implementations or enhancements.
· Champion automation and process improvement across the accounting organization, reducing manual work, improving data quality, accelerating the close, and strengthening controls.
· Lead, develop, and scale a high-performing accounting team.
· Support SOX compliance, internal control design and execution, deficiency remediation, and ongoing control optimization.
· Coordinate effectively with external auditors, internal audit, tax, treasury, legal, FP&A, and business partners to resolve accounting matters and deliver high-quality work product.
· Help evaluate accounting implications of strategic initiatives, new business models, store operations, technology investments, system changes, and corporate transactions.
What We’re Looking For
· Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required; CPA strongly preferred.
· 12+ years of progressive accounting experience, including public company controllership, assistant controllership or public accounting experience.
· Strong experience leading complex consolidations in a multi-entity, multi-location organization.
· Deep knowledge of U.S. GAAP, SEC reporting requirements, SOX compliance, internal controls, and audit processes.
· Demonstrated experience implementing, optimizing, or scaling finance systems such as ERP, consolidation, close management, account reconciliation, reporting, or workflow automation platforms.
· Highly detail oriented, organized, and disciplined, with the ability to balance precision, urgency, and sound business judgment.
· Proven track record of improving accounting processes through automation, standardization, data quality improvements, and technology-enabled controls.
· Strong cross-functional communication skills and the ability to partner effectively with finance, technology, operations, legal, tax, treasury, internal audit, and external audit teams.
Preferred Qualifications
· Big Four or national public accounting experience serving public company clients.
· Experience in a high-growth or transformation environment involving system migrations, acquisitions, restructuring, new business models, or finance organization redesign.
· Hands-on exposure to Oracle, Hyperion, FloQast or similar enterprise finance platforms.
· Experience presenting accounting matters to executive leadership.
Who We Are:
We’re a passionate group of collaborative problem solvers and creative innovators, working on cutting-edge technology. From building award-winning retail applications (with amazing AR functionality) to creating leading blockchain and machine learning technologies, each of us embodies a unique value and contributes a diverse perspective to the team.
What We Offer:
401k (6% match)
Flexible Schedules
Tuition Reimbursement,…