Pacifica Continental
Accounting Senior Lead
Atlanta, GA - Full Time
Description of the Role
The Accounting Senior Lead role will cover all monthly, quarterly and Year End US GAAP and IFRS reporting tasks, review of account reconciliations and support for global financial reporting processes. Everyday responsibilities include ensuring compliance during financial audits, as well as corporate and local guidelines. This role will closely collaborate with other relevant stakeholders, including Finance, Legal, Operations, Tax, and Consolidation Reporting. The role candidate needs to be a selfstarter and should be able to work well without constant supervision.
Responsibilities of the Role
• Manage all aspects of the daily, quarterly, and annual closing process and tasks.
• Conducts and review monthly reconciliations for financial statements ledgers and subledger.
• Plans and oversees time management processes and accounting day-to-day activities schedules.
• Prepares and submits month / year end journal entries for accruals/adjustments to the shared service team.
• Prepares, reviews, and verifies the accuracy of journal entries and accounting classifications assigned to various records, account reconciliations and analyses.
• Assist in the preparation of monthly, quarterly, or annual government and tax statutory reports, schedules, and census.
• Maintain and reconcile Intercompany accounts.
• Ensure correct automatic records in SAP for accounting accuracy.
• Provides complex financial analysis for the monthly income statements variances.
• Assist in preparation of audit work papers for any internal and external audit.
• Performs ad hoc analysis of accounts and generates reports as necessary.
• Identify reporting gaps and support the development of new reports as needed.
• Ensure all accounting procedures, process maps and templates are updated accordingly.
• Act as a liaison between FIN, IT, Sales, Operations and Management to make sure any changes in the processes related to process improvement, company organizational changes or system encasements are appropriately aligned to the local GAAPs.
• Lead accounting projects to ensure team meets deadlines.
• Participates in the development, testing, and implementation of accounting systems and process enhancements.
• Shape processes and lead the development of associated procedural documentation.
• Assists in problem resolution, answering staff questions, and provide coverage support as needed.
• Assist in maintaining policies and procedures and ensure all assigned responsibilities are performed in an efficient manner meeting established timeliness and quality standards on a day-to-day basis.
• Assist with performance management processes.
• Perform other supervisory responsibilities as appropriate.
• Assist in the completion of projects related to new initiatives.
• Support the Controller in preparing deliverables, reports & presentations to Senior Leadership
• Develop ability to see patterns or trends in processes, including key accounting estimates, and identify opportunities for standardization and optimization.
• Other finance activities per management designation
• Mentors, trains, or shares high-level knowledge with others to contribute to the development of the department.
• Support recruiting, staffing, training, and onboarding processes as appropriate
Experience of the Role
• 5-7 years of experience in accounting is required.
• 5 years’ general ledger or audit and tax experience • A bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance or Economics, Business studies, Administration or Mathematics is a plus.
• ERPs knowledge (SAP FI-CO preferable)
• Previous working experience within a Big 4 (Preferable)
• Familiarity with payroll systems,
• Experience in PBI and Microsoft packet (Excel, word, ppt, Visio)
• Data analytics/ Pivot tables/ SQL
• SAP BW knowledge
• At least 3-year experience in accounting in a multi-national environment
• CPA /CMA (a plus)
Languages:
• English
• Spanish (A plus)- Preferable
The Accounting Senior Lead role will cover all monthly, quarterly and Year End US GAAP and IFRS reporting tasks, review of account reconciliations and support for global financial reporting processes. Everyday responsibilities include ensuring compliance during financial audits, as well as corporate and local guidelines. This role will closely collaborate with other relevant stakeholders, including Finance, Legal, Operations, Tax, and Consolidation Reporting. The role candidate needs to be a selfstarter and should be able to work well without constant supervision.
Responsibilities of the Role
• Manage all aspects of the daily, quarterly, and annual closing process and tasks.
• Conducts and review monthly reconciliations for financial statements ledgers and subledger.
• Plans and oversees time management processes and accounting day-to-day activities schedules.
• Prepares and submits month / year end journal entries for accruals/adjustments to the shared service team.
• Prepares, reviews, and verifies the accuracy of journal entries and accounting classifications assigned to various records, account reconciliations and analyses.
• Assist in the preparation of monthly, quarterly, or annual government and tax statutory reports, schedules, and census.
• Maintain and reconcile Intercompany accounts.
• Ensure correct automatic records in SAP for accounting accuracy.
• Provides complex financial analysis for the monthly income statements variances.
• Assist in preparation of audit work papers for any internal and external audit.
• Performs ad hoc analysis of accounts and generates reports as necessary.
• Identify reporting gaps and support the development of new reports as needed.
• Ensure all accounting procedures, process maps and templates are updated accordingly.
• Act as a liaison between FIN, IT, Sales, Operations and Management to make sure any changes in the processes related to process improvement, company organizational changes or system encasements are appropriately aligned to the local GAAPs.
• Lead accounting projects to ensure team meets deadlines.
• Participates in the development, testing, and implementation of accounting systems and process enhancements.
• Shape processes and lead the development of associated procedural documentation.
• Assists in problem resolution, answering staff questions, and provide coverage support as needed.
• Assist in maintaining policies and procedures and ensure all assigned responsibilities are performed in an efficient manner meeting established timeliness and quality standards on a day-to-day basis.
• Assist with performance management processes.
• Perform other supervisory responsibilities as appropriate.
• Assist in the completion of projects related to new initiatives.
• Support the Controller in preparing deliverables, reports & presentations to Senior Leadership
• Develop ability to see patterns or trends in processes, including key accounting estimates, and identify opportunities for standardization and optimization.
• Other finance activities per management designation
• Mentors, trains, or shares high-level knowledge with others to contribute to the development of the department.
• Support recruiting, staffing, training, and onboarding processes as appropriate
Experience of the Role
• 5-7 years of experience in accounting is required.
• 5 years’ general ledger or audit and tax experience • A bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance or Economics, Business studies, Administration or Mathematics is a plus.
• ERPs knowledge (SAP FI-CO preferable)
• Previous working experience within a Big 4 (Preferable)
• Familiarity with payroll systems,
• Experience in PBI and Microsoft packet (Excel, word, ppt, Visio)
• Data analytics/ Pivot tables/ SQL
• SAP BW knowledge
• At least 3-year experience in accounting in a multi-national environment
• CPA /CMA (a plus)
Languages:
• English
• Spanish (A plus)- Preferable
