Financial and Statutory Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the integrity of the financial statements for the legal entity under his/her responsibility. This is achieved by defining accounting procedures in compliance with local accounting policies, running SAP reports required to review Income Statement, Balance Sheets and Trial Balances, performing account reconciliations, analyzing trends and completing fluctuation analysis, comparing USGAAP and local books and analyzing differences, follow-up on unusual items, reviewing and approving significant or unusual accounting entries, ensure corrections required are correctly recorded, etc.
• Calculate and recognize monthly corporate income tax closing,
• Perform account reconciliations of the accounts under his/her ownership and review and approve the account reconciliations performed by the members of his team.
• Act as focal point for external financial and statutory filings necessary to meet internal auditing and governmental requirements, in compliance with USGAAP and local accounting principles and with various laws and official requirements. Incomplete or missing data can cause serious consequences.
• Ensure timely and successful completion of the external audit of the Financial Statements by acting as focal point for communications with the external auditors, ensuring information required by the auditors is provided on time, participating in review meetings, answering audit comments, etc.
• Recognizes cross-functional as well as cross-Finance impacts and takes action to address needs.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in accounting
• Minimum of 5 years Accounting experience is required
• Strong understanding and knowledge of accounting principles
• Technology (computer) skills are essential to success, such as SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) knowledge, Excel, Power BI, Digitalization, Automation, etc.
• Excellent in overall English skill.
• Good understanding of accounting and financial statement interpretation and analysis.
• Good understanding of local corporate income tax requirements.
• Ability to work in a global team environment while maintaining high attention to detail.
• Demonstrate accountability for decisions and results.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills