Excellent company looking to add a successful Senior Accountant - Lease Accounting to their team!

Position Summary:
The Senior Accountant participates in, as well as owns, a mix of routine and ad hoc responsibilities in the Controller’s organization. The Senior Accountant is a part of a multidisciplinary accounting team that excels at delivering accurate and timely results by using their accounting knowledge, holding each other accountable and collaborating across the organization.The accounting team assists other Finance teams throughout the year, makes life better by improving processes, assists with reporting functions, participates in testing/validations for system implementations and changes, participates in year-end audit work, assists in mergers, acquisitions, or divestitures, research accounting guidance, and prepares accounting transaction memos.
 

Responsibilities:

• Make an impact in the month-end close process across our multi-entity, multi-currency, global enterprise by preparing and/or posting journal entries to the general ledger accounts (internally developed software, lease accounting, transfer pricing, revenue, and other accruals), and taking ownership of the respective general ledger trial balances.
• Grow your career by learning from well-rounded, experienced leaders and have ambitions to rotate positions within the wider-Finance organization.
• Generate opportunities for process improvements, particularly automation, as well as participate in design and testing for the new processes.
• Obtain an understanding of business and Company by preparing fluctuation analysis of balance sheets and income statements for assigned legal entities.
• Ensure books and records are accurate by preparing and/or reviewing balance sheet account reconciliations.
• Support the reconciliation center of excellence by assisting with the timely resolution of open reconciling items.
• Assist external auditors with year-end audits and with the triennial internal audit.
• Contribute to overall team’s performance to ensure the team meets the Company established standards for effectiveness and efficiency and reaches departmental goals and benchmarks.
• Ensure a smooth month-end close process by working across various departments i.e., Accounts Payable, Payroll/HR, Billing, Collections, Treasury and General Ledger Reconciliation teams.
• Be empowered to do things the right way by raising issues without fear, identifying control gaps, and aligning risk and control processes in day-to-day responsibilities, and monitoring and ensuring controls are functioning as intended.

Skills, Knowledge and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting preferred, or equivalent recent experience (e.g., posting GL entries, preparing account reconciliations and variance analysis, knowledge of US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S. GAAP)
• 4 to 7 years of progressive accounting and/or external financial reporting experience, preference given to those from multinational entities, with revenues in excess of $10 million, or from a major public accounting firm.
• Hands-on mentality, like to be the weeds, and strong attention to detail.
• Fondness towards fixing broken processes and be unafraid to challenge the norm.
• High problem solving and analytical skills, ability to connect the dots.
• Solid understanding of U.S. GAAP

MUST HAVE

• 4 to 7 years of progressive accounting and/or external financial reporting experience, preference given to those from multinational entities, with revenues in excess of $10 million, or from a major public accounting firm.
• Degree in Accounting
• Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S. GAAP)
• LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY

***Full Benefits Offered***
***Flexible/Hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote***