Senior Associate Specialist, Accounting

Overview:

The Senior Associate Accountant is a position within the Americas Controller organization. The associate will work closely with other members of the Finance organization, especially members of FP&A, Legal, Regional Shared Service, and Treasury. 

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for month-end/quarter-end closing the general ledger for Corporate entities timely and accurately (posting journal entries, preparing account reconciliations, loading the consolidation system, preparing SOX controls, and coordinating with upstream/downstream functions to resolve issues).
• Preparing quarterly financial statements, accounting forms, analytics, and governmental filings.
• Monitoring assigned accounts to ensure that monthly activity is posted accurately, efficiently and if issues are detected, a recommendation is made to resolve.
• Interfacing with internal and external auditors.
• Assist with special project or ad hoc requests as needed.
• Identifying, solving and/or escalating accounting issues to his/her supervisor.
• Interface with external third party service providers on special purpose entities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting with 0-5 years of progressive accounting experience.
• Advanced degree or CPA a plus.
• Understanding of accounting principles & internal controls.
• Applies concepts and guidelines; demonstrates healthy skepticism and effective problem solving and analytical skills.
• Previous experience with SAP is plus.
• Proficient in Microsoft office products.
• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team and work independently with limited supervision.
• Self-motivated, driven and effectively prioritizes assignments.
• Exhibits a positive can-do attitude and approaches responsibilities with an open mind.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity.