Senior Specialist Accountant

Senior Specialist Accountant Job Purpose and Impact The Senior Professional, Financial Accounting & Controllership job establishes and leads the implementation of accounting policies and fiscal controls to safeguard the organization's assets. With minimal supervision, this job prepares complex financial report, statement and analysis to provide insights for business decision making and recommends performance improvement opportunities to support business growth. This job also partners to drive continuous improvement in management reporting, report standardization and rationalization. Key Accountabilities ACCOUNTING : Reviews accounting and financial records and reports, and designs standard accounting report packages in addition to new setup and changes in existing financial applications to ensure accurate and efficient financial recordkeeping. With independent ownership on o Able to manage CAK MTM, Derivative Accounting, and Inventory valuations independently o Perform COPA reconciliation ACCOUNTING SERVICES SUPPORT: Performs complex accounting services to ensure accurate and efficient financial recording and reporting, including applying accounting techniques and practices to classify and record financial transactions, accounting for administrative expenses, verifying the accuracy of detailed financial business transactions, payment processing, month end general ledger close, balance sheet reconciliations, and profit and loss analysis. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS & ANALYSIS: Builds and reviews complex financial statements ensuring accuracy, and conducts and reviews complex financial analysis, budgeting and forecasting to support decision making while maintaining compliance with established requirements and policies and risk management. INTERNAL CONTROLS: Collaborates to craft and implement internal controls, communicates business risks with functions across the organization, and ensures financial processes are performed timely, accurately, and in compliance with regulatory policies. FINANCIAL RISK & REPORTING: Develops and implements process simplification, standardization and automatization of financial risk and reporting to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and effectiveness in financial risk management. PROCESS IMPROVEMENT: Leads process improvement projects and drives financial reporting operational and improvement projects to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of accounting services and internal controls, maintaining and applying knowledge of accounting regulations and industry best in class standards. Qualifications Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience. Shift Timings Support North America – Non month close 2 to 11 and month close 6 to 3 with ability to extend based on business needs. Experience Level Senior Level