Job Description

Job Summary

• This role is responsible for owning accounting processes, leading complex analyses for informed decision-making, and ensuring compliance with accounting policies. The role acts as the first point of contact for complex issues, driving improvements, and implementing new accounting processes across the organization. The role also executes business controls, troubleshoots problems, and provides mentoring to elevate organizational performance.



Responsibilities

• Owns and executes accounting processes and performs complex analysis of transactional accounting information to support decision-making.
• Leads the development, implementation, maintenance, and communication procedures to ensure compliance with accounting policies.
• Acts as the first escalation point of contact for complex systems or policy issues related to area of expertise.
• Leads the implementation, adoption and integration of new accounting processes and systems across the entire organization.
• Engages proactively in the identification of gaps and opportunities for improvement and makes recommendations for the same.
• Executes and ensures the effectiveness of business controls by conducting comprehensive reviews, analyses, and verifications.
• Coordinates departmental work, identifies improvement opportunities, and ensures effective business controls for streamlined processes.
• Leads and assigns responsibilities for complex requests, contributing innovative concepts, and implementing changes for process improvement.
• Proactively monitors and troubleshoots complex problems, collaborating with others to develop recommendations.
• Analyzes tasks, collaborates with internal partners, and provides mentoring and guidance to lower-level roles, aiming to enhance organizational performance.



Education & Experience Recommended

• High School Diploma/General Education Diploma (GED)/Higher Secondary education or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
• Typically has 8+ years of related work experience, preferably in financial management, internal audit, accounting, or a related field.



Preferred Certifications

• Certified Bookkeeper



Knowledge & Skills

• Account Reconciliation
• Accounting
• Accounts Payable
• Accounts Receivable
• Auditing
• Balance Sheet
• Billing
• Bookkeeping
• Economics
• External Auditing
• Finance
• Financial Services
• Financial Statements
• General Ledger
• Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
• Internal Controls
• Invoicing
• Month-End Closing
• Reconciliation
• SAP Applications



Cross-Org Skills

• Effective Communication
• Results Orientation
• Learning Agility
• Digital Fluency
• Customer Centricity



Impact & Scope

• Impacts multiple departments and leads large, cross-division functional teams or projects.



Complexity

• Works on assignments that are highly complex in nature where a strong degree of initiative and technical knowledge are required to resolve problems.



Disclaimer

• This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.