Senior Specialist, Accounting Operations

Primary Responsibilities / Key Result Areas

• Completeness and documentation of financial records
• Ensure manual journal entries are properly recorded, with appropriate supporting documentation
• Reconcile balance sheet accounts ensuring high-accuracy financial reporting
• Identify, calculate, and record accrued expenses for services rendered but not yet invoiced
• As an entity controller, ensure accuracy of the general ledgers, including areas prepared by other departments (e.g. fixed assets transactions, revenue recognition, income taxes, etc.)
• Compliance of the financial records with SOX and SES policies and procedures
• Respect strict closing deadlines, to allow timely consolidation of SES’s results
• Maintain internal controls over financial reporting to meet SOX requirements
• Fulfilment of regulatory obligations associated with each entity
• Prepare annual statutory financial statements and any other tax filings or other reporting obligations
• Ensure compliance with applicable Accounting Standards and transfer pricing policies
• Financial analysis over Group results
• Prepare monthly review of companies’ results, including analysis of variances to prior and budget
• Oversight over external accounting service providers
• Review monthly reports from external providers, ensuring accuracy, including correct use of SES’s standard chart of accounts and cost centres
• Maintain reconciliation between IFRS consolidation ledger and local ledger (in SAP), as well as between local ledger (in SAP) and local ledger (in external provider’s system)

Qualifications & Experience

• Brazilian chartered accountant (Contador)
• Council of Accountants (CRC) licence
• Proficiency in SAP
• Previous experience working in a SOX-compliant environment preferred
• More than eight years operational experience in a similar role, preferably in an international organization

Competencies

• Excellent analytical skills and detail-focused
• Thorough understanding of Accounting Standards (IFRS)
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Able to plan own time carefully and to prioritize with limited supervision
• Able to communicate clearly and effectively in an international business environment