Overview
This role is responsible for ensuring General Ledger transactions within the EMEA Finance Shared Services Center (FSSC) are captured and reported accurately and timely in the company’s financial statements in accordance to US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
Responsibilities
Maintains ledger accounts entities that are covered by the EMEA Finance Shared Services Center (FSSC) – including:
– updating and maintaining GL accounts for US GAAP & Statutory reporting
– timely and accurate monthly balance sheet account reconciliations as per template used by the EMEA FSSC
– timely analysis, identification, communication and resolution of balance sheet account reconciliation issues
– assigns transaction codes to documents
– prepares journal entries to general ledger
– assures documents being processed are included in the appropriate accounting period
– analyzes and verifies internal consistency, completeness, and arithmetic accuracy of accounting documents
– analyzes and researches and corrects issues related to accounting
– communicates issues with errors, procedure violations and discrepancies with all levels of management
– coordinates the activities of junior accountants
– Possible 2 GL Junior Accountants as direct reports
Month-end closing activities including:
– responsible for submitting monthly reporting to Corporate (M’s and Q’s) as per Bio-Rad policies and procedures
– updates and maintains month-end/quarter-end/year-end closing schedules
– Performs balance sheet and income statement account analyses and actual versus budget comparisons to determine if there are missing entries or significant variances that require further investigation.
– processes accruals during month-end close
– assists in preparation of QVRs
– responsible for responding to any questionnaires from corporate
– coordinates the activities of junior accountants
Trintech Activities:
– Maintaining master-data for trintech
– Creating/deleting users
– Resolve issues with Trintech support/IT
– Ad-hoc issues relating to Trintech support for end-users
– Month end TB reconciliation and monthly batch jobs
Works on unique and critical projects and problems including:
– Coordinates special projects and requests involving general accounting systems
Internal controls including:
– Performs internal control reviews for assigned control objectives required by section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley
– Coordinates internal and external audit requests – before, during and after – as well as the completion of audit-required analyses.
– Answers auditing questions and resolves auditing issues.
– Ensures compliance with applicable Corporate Policies and Procedures
Qualifications
Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills for interacting with individual team contributors, business partners, and senior management.
Strong knowledge of internal controls and US GAAP accounting required.
Strong analytical and problem solving background.
Experience in process and project management skills.
Experience in process redesign and/or efficiency
Innovative and able to think both analytically and conceptually.
Fluent (both orally and in writing) in English
Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance required
A relevant qualification or accreditation with a professional body
8 years related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Finance SSC Experience in large multinational company with a high volume, performance driven environment
Experience and in depth knowledge in SAP
Experience identifying and investigating discrepancies in accounting records
General ledger accounting experience including accountant analyses and expense analysis
