General Overview

Summary

Detailed Description

• Prepares and interprets monthly and quarterly financial statements for internal and external reporting purposes.
• Prepares financial information with detailed analysis of variances to forecast and plan identifying areas of financial concern requiring action.
• Prepares and analyze key financial and operational metrics.
• Presents and make recommendations to management as a result of analysis.
• Ensures financial controls are in place to properly record transactions in accordance with GAAP.
• Ensures provisions and other accounting processes are in accordance with corporate policies.
• Interface with auditors on area of responsibility.
• Responsible to standardize accounting processes and implement best practices to ensure procedures are as efficient and effective as possible.
• Act as a key advisor to other team members.
• Project leader on cross-functional projects as required.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Basic understanding of internal and external customer needs is required to make effective/informed decisions.
• Strong communication, negotiation and presentation skills.
• Ability to consolidate, manipulate and analyze large quantities of data.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy and working under tight time deadlines.
• Ability to evaluate, prioritize and problem solve a variety of tasks to ensure their timely and accurate completion.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers.
• Ability to recommend accounting process changes based on intimate knowledge of accounting processes, policies and procedures.
• Ability to direct others on accounting practices.
• Ability to research accounting rules in both U.S. GAAP and GAAP of relevant country.
• Ability to create a profit center or cost center budget identifying key plan drivers.
• Ability to bridge between actual, plan and forecast, analyzing mix impacts and summarizing in management reports.
• Provide recommendations based on interpretation of results.
• Ability to design/create queries and understands what creates the output.
• Creates basic spreadsheet macros.
• Ability to design custom queries in job-related software.
• Understanding of the relationships between the various tools.
• Understand how to use political structure in the organization and how to get things done using that structure.

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data
• Repetitive manual movements are frequently required (e.g. data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc)
• Occasional overnight travel may be required

Typical Experience

• Three to six years of relevant experience

Typical Education

• Bachelor's degree, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Accounting designation may be required
• Education experience may vary by geography.

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