Senior Analyst, Financial Reporting and Consolidations

Work arrangement: Hybrid — 2 days on-site per week (Novi, MI)

The Senior Analyst, Financial Reporting and Consolidations is responsible for preparing, analyzing, and reviewing the Company's North America and Consolidated internal financial reporting packages — a key control supporting the accuracy and completeness of the Company's financial statements. This role also performs monthly consolidation and accounting close procedures, and is encouraged to leverage AI and automation tools to streamline reporting and analysis.
The ideal candidate combines strong accounting or finance training with sharp technical, analytical, and communication skills. This role requires comfort managing large data sets, assessing financial statement variances, and advising management on risks and opportunities identified through that analysis.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Prepare internal financial reporting packages that serve as a key control over the reporting of actuals

• Analyze financial results, including trend and variance analysis, and communicate findings to management

• Perform monthly consolidation and accounting close procedures, including preparing and reviewing trial balances, journal entries, accruals, and account/bank reconciliations in compliance with US GAAP

• Review and analyze inter-company and intra-company balances and transactions

• Partner with Accounting and Finance teams to drive process improvements, implement accounting policies, and ensure complete, accurate financials

• Build and maintain automated reporting tools to increase team productivity

• Build strong, trust-based relationships with operating leaders across the organization

• Leverage AI tools and automation to streamline reporting, analysis, and close processes, and identify opportunities to modernize existing workflows

QUALIFICATIONS (KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES)

Required:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Accounting

• 3-5 years of relevant accounting experience

• Strong analytical (quantitative and qualitative), problem-solving, and attention-to-detail skills

• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills

• Advanced proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)

• Strong customer-service orientation and ability to consistently meet deadlines

• Demonstrated ability to set goals and prioritize, organize, and execute against them

Preferred:

• CPA license (active or in progress)

• Experience working with global teams and processes

• Experience with Workday, Adaptive Insights, and Workiva (Wdesk)

• Experience using AI tools (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) to support financial analysis or reporting workflows

Why Lineage?

This is an excellent position to begin your career path within Lineage! Success in this role enables greater responsibilities and promotions! A career at Lineage starts with learning about our business and how each team member plays a part each and every day to satisfy our customers’ requirements. Beyond that, you’ll help us grow and learn on our journey to be the very best employer in our industry. We’ll ask you for your opinion and ensure we do our part to keep you developing and engaged as we grow our business. Working at Lineage is energizing and enjoyable. We value respect and care about our team members.

Lineage is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is committed to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit workplace discrimination and unlawful harassment and retaliation.  Lineage will not discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical or mental disability or any other protected status under federal, state and local law.

Benefits

Lineage provides safe, stable, reliable work environments, medical, dental, and basic life and disability insurance benefits, 401k retirement plan, paid time off, annual bonus eligibility, and a minimum of 7 holidays throughout the calendar year.