Senior Accountant

This role is responsible for performing accounting activities for Brazil entities. The analyst will have responsibilities for overall data integrity of items such as the financial statements, external audit, and other related duties. The Senior Accountant uses experienced professional accountant knowledge to resolve diverse accounting matters.

Core Responsibilities

Senior accountant will have responsibilities for overall data integrity of the subsidiary's financial statements, USGAAP and local GAAP compliance, client satisfaction, cross process coordination, account reconciliation coordination (and individual reconciliation), supporting audits, process improvements and other related duties.

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 fluctuation analysis, comparing USGAAP and local books and analyzing differences, follow-up on unusual items, reviewing significant or unusual accounting entries, ensure corrections required are correctly recorded, etc.

• Perform accounts reconciliations under his ownership and support reconciliations prepared by other departments.
• 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.
• 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.;
• Act as consultant to area sub-process and other Finance processes in the region on financial accounting matters.
• Coordinate and/or prepare reporting of regulatory surveys and other related duties.
• Coordinate statutory presentations and responses to information requirements related to Financial Statements and legal books.
• Must be able to identify root causes of issues and discover/implement practical solutions
• Open to and proposes new ideas to improve existing work processes.
• Helps to drive change to reduce complexity and challenges status quo in processes
• Uses customer/client information to improve work processes
• Recognizes cross-functional and cross-Finance impacts and takes action to address needs
• Must demonstrate initiative and be curious.
• Must demonstrate technical Accounting competency.

Qualifications

Required qualifications

• Accounting experience
• Bachelor's degree in finance/accounting
• Ability to analyze and interpret financial data
• Experience with SAP system
• MS Office Suite (Excel, Outlook) skills are required
• Advance in English, Spanish is a plus