Sr. Accountant

Job Overview

The Sr. Accountant owns key items in the consolidations process working with members of the business and the corporate accounting group to ensure timely and accurate reporting. The Sr. Accountant will act as a business partner for key stakeholders, with a focus on driving process improvements, resolving business challenges, and evaluating the impact of new business initiatives.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with group finance contacts to standardize reporting and accounting conclusions, drive process improvements and efficiencies in the consolidation and financial reporting process.
• Participate in the financial month-end close process, preparing and posting journal entries, prepare consolidation entries including intercompany eliminations, equity/investment, profit-in-inventory, and reporting reclassifications.
• Preparation of specific footnotes and other supplemental financial schedules that support and provide additional detail to the key financial statements.
• Complete balance sheet account reconciliations accurately and timely to substantiate the account balances, additionally perform timely investigation and resolution of any reconciling items.
• Perform creation of new, and changes to existing SAP master data as it pertains to mapping of accounts, cost centers, profit centers and functional areas amongst others, as these are key to our organization's financial reporting structure.
• Preparation of key financial statements at the group level including income statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flows, showing comparisons to prior year results. Furthermore, perform analytical review of said financials for variances and accuracy.
• Preparation of key financial statements at the segment level, by consolidating regional (management) and statutory results into finalized segment financial statements. with comparisons to prior year. Furthermore, perform analytical review of said financials for variances and accuracy.
• Willingness to contribute to special projects and cross-functional team collaborations.
• Prepare ad-hoc financial reports and analysis as requested by management.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance, CPA/CMA preferred.
• 3+ years of experience in an accounting or finance role at a global manufacturing company, or public accounting experience with manufacturing exposure.
• Ability to prepare financial statements and explain the results.
• SAP experience with exposure to profit centers, BI, BW, BPC reporting.
• General understanding of US GAAP, general financial management and best accounting practices.
• High level of proficiency with MS office, especially strong with MS Excel and MS PowerPoint.
• Strong critical thinking and intuitive problem-solving skills with attention to detail required. Ability to identify, research and conclude, by interpreting data, and developing action plans.
• Effective communication, curious, strong interpersonal skills, time management and project management.
• Ability to work independently and form effective working relationships while remaining objective and impartial.
• Driven and motivated to meet or exceed expectations and established deadlines.

Company Benefits

• Health benefits: Medical, dental, vision, HSA, wellness programs, etc.
• 401k and/or employee savings programs
• Employee time off (vacation and designated holidays)
• Employee and family assistance programs
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance
• Employee learning and development programs