Accounting Sr. Specialist

**About Us**

Merama's mission is to become the best and largest online group of brands in Latin America. Our business model consists on acquiring consumer goods brands across Latin America and accelerate growth on e-commerce and marketplaces together with the leading merchants. We're a young company with more than 20 brands and 300 people around LATAM (with focus on Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Colombia and Chile) and USA with different nationalities. Merama ran 2 investment rounds, and before completing the first year of operations, Merama became a Unicorn Company.

**Why would you love working at Merama?**

We are a company committed to our people, we strongly believe in giving the best customer experience, not only for our external clients but our internal clients too, we care about them and their wellbeing. Also, we are an inclusive company where everybody can feel safe and heard.

We are a fast-paced environment moved by collaboration and data-driven mindset that encourages everyone to participate, to create and build our future together.

Merama is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. We don't make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other basis protected by applicable laws or prohibited by company policy.

**If you want to learn more about Merama please visit**:Website** |** Instagram** |** LinkedIn**

**About the team**:
Accounting team is a Key corporate function responsible to provide the Financial Statements to the Board and Investors.
Accounting team's mission is to support Merama and its merchants in areas like: Treasury, Tax, Procurement, Controlling, Demand Planning and Strategic Planning.
It is also responsible for ensuring that accounting reports comply with international accounting standards (IFRS) and, acting as key function when providing financial statements and reports accurately and timely to the Board and users. In addition, accounting team is in charge of consolidation reports of whole group of entities at Merama Brazil.

**About the role**:
You are passionate about accounting and finance and have a growth driven mindset. You enjoy making sure that the flows are being followed and like to review them in order to make it easier and more effective. You are result - oriented, structured, organized and collaborative have great people's.

**Responsabilities**:

- Responsible for ensuring that accounting is accurate (IFRS compliant) and for internal (analytical review and variance analysis) and external (Financial Statements) reporting regarding balance sheets and P&L accounts, providing technical guidance to subsidiaries for any necessary adjustments;
- Participate in the preparation of consolidation and accounting closings.
- Responsible for the accounting closing process, provisioning and reviewing the process, ensuring that accounts are analyzed in a timely manner at closing;
- Analyze and recommend changes to accounting systems and procedures
- Support implementation among IFRS-aligned subsidiaries;
- Work with subsidiaries on the account reconciliation process, reviewing balances and ensuring that supporting documentation is gathered, any outstanding issues are mapped and the process is followed up through an action plan,
- Provide support to business, M&A, finance and other areas with accounting guidance and variance analysis.
- Support the accounting consolidation of companies based in Brazil that report to Mexico.

**We are looking for someone who has**:

- Accounting degree
- Consistent experience in Accounting (IFRS / CPC)
- Knowledge of Excel and Powerpoint;
- Sense of urgency
- Good relationship and empathy (will deal with various stakeholders),
- English advanced (mandatory) and spanish (desirable)
- Previous experience with Auditing

**What we offer to you (benefits)**:

- Meal Voucher
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Gympass
- Reimbursement for English or Spanish Classes