Accounting Specialist - RTR General Accounting

Job Summary

This position is responsible for providing business process and financial accounting support and expertise for assigned areas of responsibility, specifically supporting the General Accounting Center of Excellence (COE) team, primarily in Client Services and Payroll Accounting. Specific examples of areas within the COE are: Payroll accruals, Payroll deductions, Equity investments, Long-Term and Short-Term notes, Workers' Compensation and General Liability Insurance, Manual Accruals, GRIR accounting, AP and AR trade activity accounts, Miscellaneous A/R, Bad Debt Reserve accounting, and Income Tax accruals.

This position oversees financial activities affecting the bottler's financial statements, ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of month-end close processes, journal entries, and account reconciliations. Furthermore, it provides financial reporting and analysis, technical accounting guidance, and audit support to client bottlers.

This role involves developing sustainable relationships with internal and external stakeholders, establishing oneself as a valued and trusted financial business partner for bottlers. The position requires interaction with a variety of external and internal stakeholders, including daily collaboration with a BPO.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Execute the month end close process for assigned areas of responsibility, including monthly reporting, analysis and reconciliations while ensuring the timeliness, accuracy, integrity and quality of the financial statements
• Review complex and material reconciliations and journal entries completed by the offshore team (BPO)
• Cultivate relationships with assigned bottler for all general accounting activities for all areas above (bottler finance and operations team)
• Leverage key business indicators to identify opportunities for process improvement initiatives
• Provide financial and project management leadership throughout process improvement initiatives
• Coordinate and lead client/stakeholder meetings 
• Collaborate with department/cross functionally to drive process, performance, and effectiveness
• Provide oversight of assigned process and team including partnership, support and continual training of an offshore team
• Understand Industry, Bottler & Customer end-to-end processes and key contacts to deliver expected results
• Provide technical accounting guidance to support operational decision making based on the role
• Act as Subject Matter Expert for multiple business systems including CONA, third party software, and implemented automation technology

Disclaimer: This job description is not intended to be a comprehensive list of the duties and responsibilities of the position, and the duties and responsibilities may change with or without notice.

Key Skills and Abilities

• Strong understanding of finance business processes and accounting policies/GAAP
• Knowledge of SAP, Advanced-level Microsoft Excel, Power BI, Access Databases & Accg Support Tools (e.g., Blackline)
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, and communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple assignments concurrently and meet deadlines
• Process improvement focus
• Building strong, trusted internal and external customer relationships
• Prior exposure to Financial or Cost Accounting, and related activities, in a professional environment

Education Requirements

• Minimum: 4 Year / Bachelor’s Degree — Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• Preferred: Graduate Degree — Master’s degree and/or CPA preferred

Years of Experience

3 to 5 years of finance and/or accounting experience

Required Travel

• Willingness and ability to travel as required based on business need. Less than 5% of travel.

Hybrid Work Environment

CCBSS operates a hybrid working environment. This is a teleworking role that requires working at a CCBSS office location on a regular basis (or a minimum number of days per month or week) at the manager’s discretion. The number of days required at a CCBSS office location is at the manage