Job Description

POSITION SUMMARY:

This role is ideal for a recently qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) looking for the next step in their career. Located in the International Financial Shared Service Centre (“IFSSC”) Accounting team, the role is a key part of the end to end Record To Report (“RTR”) function for 20+ countries across the globe.

The General Ledger (“GL”) Accountant will be responsible for a range of general ledger tasks and activities. Areas of accounting and processes covered include, but are not limited to, Prepayments, Fixed Assets, Concur T&E expenses, Deferred rent accounting, Accruals, Cash accounting and Payroll costs. Key deliverables for this role are the month end close cycle and group reporting under US GAAP, accurate and timely postings of month end GL entries, balance sheet control account reconciliations, and variance analysis on monthly and quarterly accounts.

The successful candidate will have a wealth and breadth of experience and expertise in accounting processes best practice, probably obtained from experience in a number of accounting roles. They will be willing to be flexible in what they are working on from one week to the next, varying from focusing on one specific country or area of the balance sheet one week, to support for a specific accounting project the next. They will pro-actively seek out and suggest new and innovative ways to improve accounting process design and transaction flows within the IFSSC, as well as understanding and documenting those processes where necessary.

Experience of working in an IFSSC, and within a SOX compliant environment would be a strong advantage.

Experience of preparing high quality balance sheet control account reconciliations is essential for this role, and more importantly, an aptitude for using those reconciliations to identifying potential accounting issues that need further investigation and to provide support and business partnering to various managers across the business in order to do so.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

OPERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Month-end close:

• Completion of month-end close journals for Vertex’s International region entities
• Completion and/or review of balance sheet control account reconciliations at month-end in accordance with SOX 404 compliance requirements and pro-active investigation of reconciling items on the reconciliation
• Support the Financial Accounting Management team with completion and review of monthly & quarterly BS and PL Flux analysis
• Liaison with various stakeholders (e.g. Accounts Payable, Cash Accounting Team, Revenue Accounting, Finance) to ensure timely and accurate financial reporting
• Ad-hoc financial reporting to group and liaison with US accounting team to assist with Group month-end close
• Support and provide backup for other GL accountants in team
• Work with RTR lead to improve and develop processes, controls and systems including creation and maintenance of process notes
• Ensure that internal policies and SOX procedures are adhered to
• Assist with internal and SOX audit queries relating to general ledgers as and when required
• Assist with ad-hoc GL projects

STRATEGIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build a partnership of trust and open communication between International Accounting team, Finance, Internal Audit, Compliance, Statutory Accounts team, and US corporate stakeholders
• Participation in other ad-hoc accounting projects as required

EDUCATION:

• Education – Bachelor’s degree
• Qualified Accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA)

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• Good technical knowledge of accounting and finance processes in a complex international business
• Experience of preparing high quality Balance Sheet reconciliations
• Experience of communicating across all levels of the business, including a senior management team
• Oracle R12, OBIEE, HFM and SMART View (Essbase data sources) experience an advantage
• Good work knowledge of excel, preferably with some advanced skills (e.g.: data, pivot tables and in general using Excel productively)
• Proven communication, negotiation and influencing skills in working with multiple stakeholders across multiple departments
• Established record in managing multiple and competing priorities
• Previous experience of US multi-nationals beneficial
• Experience of working in an International Shared Service centre and within a SOX compliant environment would be an advantage

 

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Good technical knowledge of accounting and finance processes in a complex international business • Experience of preparing high quality Balance Sheet reconciliations • Experience of communicating across all levels of the business, including a senior management team • Oracle R12, OBIEE, HFM and SMART View (Essbase data sources) experience an advantage • Good work knowledge of excel, preferably with some advanced skills (e.g.: data, pivot tables and in general using Excel productively) • Proven communication, negotiation and influencing skills in working with multiple stakeholders across multiple departments • Established record in managing multiple and competing priorities • Previous experience of US multi-nationals beneficial • Experience of working in an International Shared Service centre and within a SOX compliant environment would be an advantage