The Senior Accountant – General Accounting is accountable to support all general accounting processes required to transform data into information for reporting purposes, through effective, efficient and regulatory (SOX) compliant finance processes, and in accordance with local and consolidated GAAP/IFRS.
Responsibilities include:

1. Deliver guidance, insight, and technical expertise as it relates to accounting.
2. Month-end closing and analysis
3. Support of the day to day capture of performance metrics at the functional, team and individual level
The Senior Accountant – General Accounting will support divisions, legal entities and countries as assigned to gain, over time, a deep understanding of the various business divisions, and the unique attributes of the legal entity, regulatory, and in-country requirements associated with the region.

Essential Functions:

1. Utilize advanced finance and accounting experience to deliver the team and individually assigned work load, support fellow team members, 3rd party outsource teams, and one’s direct supervisor to perform more complex accounting processes and transactions over the course of the reporting period, including but not limited to:

• Faciliate and perform month-end close
• Prepare month-end reports
• Develop and maintain control standards
• Perform variance analyses and reconciliations, as required.
• Monitor and correct complex data and information errors
• Identify and resolve exceptions
• Address questions from controller’s group counterparts within local, corporate, audit and tax reporting teams
• Coach/ support fellow team members (internal and outsource) to handle complex issues/ exceptions

2. As an individual contributor and team member; develop and deliver process documentation, training content, and super user support for general accountingactivities, as requested, including but not limited to:

• General accounting
• Close and consolidations
• Inter-Company transactions and allocations
• Chart of accounts management
• SOX compliance, internal controls

3. Participate in process improvement reviews with team (internal and 3rd party outsource) as a part of ongoing exception management and continuous improvement activities:

• Support development of clearly defined, achievable team and individual goals.
• Capture and review scorecard KPI and measurement outcomes on a daily, weekly, and period basis.
• Evaluate exceptions to process, quality, and service delivery commitments by category.
• Participate in the prioritization of targeted exceptions.
• Perform root cause analysis for more complex exceptions.
• In collaboration with fellow team members; identify, prepare, and recommend strategies for the GPMs to reduce/ eliminate exceptions over time.
• Identify risks or opportunities to revenues, cost, and profitability and propose appropriate actions.
• Investigate outstanding reconciliations and associated variances.
• Address and eliminate data integrity and quality issues over time.

4. Support data integrity and preparation of financial information to ensure completeness, accuracy, timeliness and accessibility of financial information.

• Sustain minimum effective controls in compliance with SOX, GAAP, IFRS and any other accounting pronouncements and policies required.
• Read, understand and execute on the policies and standards communicated by the GPMs and the corporate controller.
• Participate in training and professional development activities to continue to develop Finance capabilities and professional expertise.
• Properly utilize the standard chart of accounts, sustaining the agreed data definitions and usage.

5. Support the migration of processes to the shared services hub including

• Migrate STP activities and processes to MY hub
• Update SOPs and Work Instructions
• Ensure process migration is smooth and on time per agreed plan
• Proactively raise issues early so that they can be addressed as soon as possible

Position Accountabilities / Scope
Participate in the design, build, and implementation activities to develop common end-state accounting processes in support of their direct supervisor and the end to end Record to Report Global Process Manager (GPM)
Develop and deliver process documentation, training content, and super user support as requested for special projects and continuous improvement work efforts. Coach and mentoring peers, 3rd party outsource service provider staff, and less experienced team members to perform effectively in their role