Financial Accountant
Full Time
Job Description
- Collaborate with regional leads to influence accounting and business processes and the implementation and adherence to global accounting policies.
- Ensure a high quality of accounting output for annual financial statements and monthly management reports for use by internal stakeholders, which include departmental heads and senior business leaders.
- Provide assurance to support the accuracy and completeness of our results in accordance with global directives, internal policies as applicable.
- Collaborate with local office leadership to solve local business issues.
- Engage with external accounting and tax advisors to enhance the Controllership team’s international accounting operating model and management of our international statutory and tax compliance requirements.
- Lead the evaluation of existing finance processes.
- Collaborate with functional and regional leads and other members of Finance to re-engineer the design of processes and controls to increase efficiency and mitigate identified risks.
- Assess the current and future-state of business processes and consider impacts on enterprise systems.
- Design and implement new finance processes.
- Research business needs and collaborate with function leads to convert compliance requirements into process-based solutions which are successfully realized with the system and resources available.
- Understand business processes and anticipate areas for adding value to the services the Finance team provides the organization.
- Supervise and mentor junior controllership team members as their professional development coach.
- Actively participate in the development of controllership team members, provide coaching and assist in elevating the capabilities of direct reports and the Controllership team as a whole.
- Lead and participate in other special projects as necessary.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- BS/BA degree in Accounting, or related area, with strong academic credentials
- 7-10 years of relevant experience, either in a professional services firm or for-profit business
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