Senior Accountant

 

Who we are:

ARLANXEO, established in April 2016, is a world-leading synthetic rubber company with sales of around EUR 3.2 billion in 2017, about 3,800 employees and a presence at 12 production sites in nine countries. The company’s core business is the development, manufacturing and marketing of high-performance rubber for use in, for example, the automotive and tire industries, the construction industry, and the oil and gas industries. 

 

What we can offer you:

ARLANXEO is a young company with strong roots! We derive our strength from global presence, management excellence and most importantly our people! Our employees are the pillars of our success. 
 

We offer exciting career opportunities regionally as well as internationally, competitive pay and benefits, educational assistance programs, and many other personal and professional development programs that are a part of our vision and values that drive our ongoing success.

 

ARLANXEO has a new career opportunity available for a Senior Accountant at our Pittsburgh Corporate office. This position is not open to full remote work and operates on a hybrid schedule.
 

The Senior Accountant will demonstrate detailed knowledge of accounting processes and information while possessing advanced technical skills necessary to develop and maintain solutions using financial systems.  The position will be a major contributor to a full spectrum of activities such as general ledger, IFRS compliance, period-end closing, account reconciliations, audit, general accounting, financial analysis and reporting. Additionally, this position will play a key support role in managing the financial control framework for North America.
 

The position supports the North American Finance organization to fulfill the requirements of ARLANXEO and parent company Saudi Aramco by:

     - Ensuring the integrity and accuracy of financial information

     - Partnering with internal colleagues across multiple locations to foster a proactive, collaborative work environment

     - Supporting initiatives and projects on an as needed basis
 

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• General Accounting
  • Coordinate the month-end closing in SAP including such areas as reconciliation of sub-ledgers, timely execution of key tasks, regrouping, revaluation, etc.
  • Manage Financial Closing Cockpit including adherence of regional staff to tight deadlines while conforming to local and global schedules
  • Prepare monthly account reconciliations including researching and resolving differences
  • Record monthly journal entries related to various general ledger accounts
  • Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual schedules to support financial reporting
  • Analyze provisions including evaluating information to determine appropriateness of accruals
  • Support tax and audit requests for information and organization of regional activities
  • Develop, implement, modify and document processes and participate in process improvements
  • Support regional data conversions, integration of financial systems and troubleshooting using financial systems
  • Support vendor master data administration
  • Perform complex accounting activities such as payroll/benefit accounting including recording entries, reconciling, charge-out rate calculations and Management reporting
     
• Financial Controls
  •  Support Internal Control Officer for North America as contact to region and connection to Corporate Accounting on Internal Controls over Financial Reporting
  • Manage preparation, validation and submission of monthly requirements to Corporate Accounting 
  • Support management and reduction of segregation of dut