Accountant

• Understands and applies basic accounting principles to transactions of a routine nature as needed to ensure compliance with regulatory and statutory requirements.
• Creates and posts basic journal entries in the General Ledger on a monthly basis to support the period end General Ledger close process.
• Analyzes basic transactions or account balances to provide insight into account balances, period account activity, or specific journal entries.
• Runs standard reports (General Ledger, BPC, Business System) to facilitate reporting and analysis.
• Maintains schedules, templates, subsidiary ledgers, worksheets or other documents on an ongoing basis in order to ensure timeliness, consistency and accuracy of reported items.
• May support electronic cash transfer and payroll processes.
• Performs reconciliation of general ledger account balances to supporting detail data on a monthly or quarterly basis in order to ensure the accuracy, validity and completeness of reported account balances. Applies appropriate disposition to reconciling items in a timely manner, or solicits help in doing so.
• Participates in process improvement projects as needed to help achieve lean process objectives.
• Performs ad-hoc tasks and participates in special projects related to areas of responsibility as requested.
• Supports preparation of material for monthly Extended Leadership Team meetings by running reports and updating templates.
• Supports the sales tax, use tax, VAT or other statutorily required tax analysis as needed.
• Supports internal and external audit requests for areas of responsibility.
• Supports maintenance of Sarbanes-Oxley documentation for areas of responsibility.

At least 3 years of experience

ACCA or Diploma or equivalent