Senior Accountant

• Perform US and Local GAAP month-end closing activities: journals booking, HFM reporting, month end schedules
• Prepares the month end accruals to ensure the entities revenue is not overstated/understated
• Checks the monthly variances at BS and P&L level and provides proper explanations for significant differences
• Prepares the cut-off analysis for month end
• Coordinates with site finance leaders and entity controllers to ensure timely flow of information, especially with regards to month-end accruals
• Prepares, reviews and controls accounting journals
• Ensure all journal entries comply with internal and external audit specifications
• Perform monthly account reconciliations, ensuring sufficient and quality back-ups, propose action plan for the differences identified and ensures the discrepancies are solved in due time
• Prepare periodically reports requested by local regulations (e.g. Statistics and other regulatory reporting)
• Produces routine reports, schedules, and summaries for management
• Support the annual US GAAP / statutory / SOX audits
• Ensure support external auditor and prepare deliverables for local statutory audit
• Will undertake limited payroll, banking and treasury operations for assigned entities
• Prepares reports for local regulators (monthly, quarterly or/and yearly reports as required by local authorities - such as, statistics).
• Prepares the monthly interest and amortization journals based on the financing schedule received from Treasury
• Supports external advisor on CITR preparation, gather data and review
• Seek opportunities for central testing, automatization and process efficiencies
• May establish, modify, document and co-ordinate implementation of accounting and accounting control procedures
• Identify problems and update or modify working methods in own role and/or within the team
• Update existing procedures and trains the junior colleagues on the assigned tasks

• BS degree in Accounting, Finance or relevant
• 3-5 years of experience with general ledger functions and the month-end/year-end close process
• Fluent in English
• Understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• SAP and HFM experience is a plus
• Motivated self-starter; proactive in identifying issues along with recommending issue resolution
• Flexible about work content, timings and location
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Works independently, only exceptionally requires supervision.
• Strong analytical skills
• Process and results oriented.
• Reliable and consistent
• Advanced MS Excel skills including VLOOKUP's and pivot tables

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