Beschrijving vacature
Qualifications
- Accounting degree (Undergraduate or Masters as required for certification)
- 5+ years work experience preferred (including public accounting)
Travel Percentage 10-25%*Responsibilities
- Develop and manage monthly trial balance package for small-medium size affiliates
- Work with local affiliate Finance organization to understand activities happening in affiliate
- Prepare preliminary trial balance package including standard metrics
- Investigate trial balance account fluctuations to understand and document drivers
- Present trial balance package and fluctuation analysis to financial director/local controller for local sign off
- Resolve issues identified and agreed upon during local review
- Accounting Quality Reviews (e.g. sample audits)
- Perform quality reviews
- Perform root cause analysis and resolve issues
- Deliver training as needed
- Build Strong Working Relationships with:
- Local Controllers and accountants for assigned affiliates
- Other SSC functions: P2P, O2C, etc.
- Prepare Account Reconciliations:
- Identify appropriate reconciliation methodology based on the type of account being reconciled
- Understands appropriate reconciliation supporting documentation
- Create/maintain account models (templates used to define reconciliation methodology and process steps)
- Able to work with others to gather appropriate reconciliation supporting documentation
- Able to understand when reconciliation repository tool needs master data maintained
- Utilize reconciliation repository tool to document account reconciliations and route for approval
- Manual Journal Voucher Processing
- Understands appropriate supporting documentation required for manual journal vouchers
- Assess if journal voucher accounting and documentation submitted for entry is appropriate
- Ability to identify and prepare a journal voucher when needed
- Clearly communicate to requestor, reason for rejecting journal entry request
- Develop and maintain good working relationships with local Finance organization for affiliates supported by SSC
- Troubleshooting for:
- Third party outsourced processes and controls
- SAP general accounting processes
- Research and resolve reconciliation issues
- Research and resolve intercompany imbalances
- Other potential responsibilities:
- Creation and presentation of training materials as deemed appropriate
- Ability to understand and implement new/updated accounting rules and policies as required
Special project work as it is identified*Additional Skills/Preferences
- 5+ year of public accounting experience
- CPA, Chartered Accountant or equivalent
- GAAP / IFRS accounting standards knowledge
- Multi-lingual skills (e.g. Spanish, Portuguese)
- Self-starter, high learning agility
- Identify process improvement opportunities and experience with lean and Six Sigma
- Ability to influence at all levels without direct authority
- Experience working in a high production, deadline driven environment