Senior Corporate Accountant - Finance

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Responsible for all cash flow related preparation, including budgeting, forecasting and actual reporting in both statutory and management views.

Responsible for various accounting tasks related to the corporate general ledger, including preparation of journal entries, reconciling accounts, account analysis, preparing financial statements and ensuring appropriate accounting of various corporate matters.

Role Responsibilities

Cash flow preparation – budgeting and forecasting

• Responsible for compilation and completion of preliminary budget, strat plan budget, monthly budget, latest estimates (LE) and S&OP (high-level LE)  
• Develop and distribute calendar to facilitate budget and forecast deliverables, including:
  • Coordination with various corporate teams such as Corporate Tax, Corporate FP&A, and Corporate Treasury to align on deliverable timing
  • Obtain alignment of deliverables and due dates from Regional Controlling and FP&A leads
  • Propose due dates to preview consolidated results with Corporate Controlling
  • Perform adjustments and maintain version controls to explain change in budget at every version
• Develop and distribute input templates to facilitate budget and forecast deliverables, including:
  • Tableau balance sheet input and walk-across input templates
  • Rollforward templates for debt and interest
  • Obtain regional assumptions of DSOs, DPOs and other input impacting cash flow
• Lead and participate in regional discussions with various controllership teams on cash flow forecast and budget results
• Calculate cash flow conversion rate and prepare board deck for balance sheet and cash flow

Long Description

Cash flow preparation – actual results

• Responsible for compilation and completion of actual results in management view (both regional and consolidated) on a monthly basis, including presentation on explanations obtained from Regional Controllers to highlight actual vs. budget variance and initiate follow up inquiries from Corporate Controlling, when required
• Responsible for compilation of comparable from prior year, including explanation of impact due to change in management foreign exchange rates and removal of non-recurring transactions
• Responsible for compilation and completion of actual results in statutory view on a semi-annual basis, including explanation and commentary on current period vs. prior period changes and fulfilling related audit requests, both internal and external
• Compile and review all rollforwards in support of cash flow preparation
• Prepare and submit deliverables for SHD, ELT and FLT, inclusive of Hyperion submission

Cash flow preparation – other matters

• Provide support in process change to improve cash flow accuracy and efficiency
• Serve as main point of contact for inquiries on cash flow from various stakeholders such as FP&A, SHD, and auditors
• Support research and technical discussions around cash flow treatments of complex transactions
• Maintain internally published cash flow workbooks

Corporate Accounting and Ledger Ownership & Consolidation Support

• Support manager with monthly close and corporate accounting tasks
• Oversee staff with preparation of journal entries
• Prepare & reconcile complex transactions