Senior Accountant

The Senior Accountant is primarily responsible for assisting the Controller with all aspects of the division’s financial reporting (internal and external). The Senior Accountant will participate in the division’s SOX compliance process and assist the Controller in enforcing Corporate and divisional accounting \ financial policies and procedures.  This position concentrates on timely processing of accounting tasks, analysis of critical operational \ financial data and is responsible for coordination of monthly financial closing activities. The position is also involved from time to time in special projects, as needed.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsible for the timely preparation of monthly financial statements and reports, including preparation of the corporate parent's required monthly financial reporting package.

• Performs/supervises aspects of monthly financial close. Assists the Controller with the preparation of special reports as required by the location’s management and\or from the Corporate Controller’s or Treasurer’s departments.

• Reviews the monthly balance sheet, income statement and all supporting schedules and accounts to ensure financial accuracy and when necessary, prepares correcting entries to ensure integrity of reported data.

• Ensures the accuracy of monthly financial data that is uploaded into the corporate Hyperion financial consolidation. Analyses monthly\quarterly\year to date and annual results.

• Responsible for General Ledger maintenance including proper GL coding of transactions and account reconciliation and analysis.

• Assists the Controller in answering all financial queries\information requests from internal management and from internal \ external auditors.

• Performing GAAP research and analysis of significant accounting transactions.

• Responsible for tracking all capital appropriation requests (CAR’s) and for the closing of all capital projects.

• Assist in the submission of US, Costa Rica, and Australian tax reporting packages for corporate tax department.

• Responsible for coordinating and maintaining all SOX initial testing, remediation activity and documentation requirements into the corporate SOX tracking system.

• Responsible for the maintenance of system of accounts and keeps books and records on all company transactions and assets.

• Leading or assisiting with special projects, as needed 

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or other related discipline

• Graduate degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or related discipline, preferred.

• Professional certification in accounting (CPA) or Audit (CIA) that is actively maintained

• Minimum of 3-5 years of professional experience in related function

• Foundational experience in Big 4 public accounting firm; large multi-national public company accounting experience preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong financial and operational acumen

• Strong technical accounting knowledge

• Strong moral compass, committed to operating with an unwavering commitment to ethics and compliance

• Proven ability to effectively collaborate across functional disciplines and geographies.

• Fundamental knowledge and experience in design and analysis of business processes and systems.

• Strong problem-solving and logical thinking skills with a proactive and pragmatic approach to solving and correcting problems collaboratively

• Confident and persuasive with strong influencing skills; ability to win internal support for innovative ideas and initiatives.

• Strong people skills with a proven ability to work effectively with all levels of an organization.