Associate Specialist, General Ledger

Job Overview 综述

Associate Specialist, General Ledger – Closing Team is responsible for the preparation and delivery of the Statutory Books of all Legal Entities within his/her responsibility in compliance with corporate policies.

 

The candidate will interact with Legal Entity Controllers, Finance Key Users, Business Analysts, GL account reconcilers, & other support networks for performing the deliverables.

 

This position is responsible for the financial integrity and reliability of this data in SAP and BCS.

 

He/she is responsible and accountable for review and approve the reconciliation and provide timely guidance on reconciliation & journal postings issues to GL team.

 

He/she supports business and accounting teams in all accounting matters, being the center of expertise.

Responsibilities 职责

• Ensure the accurate completion of all month-end closing activities for the entities under own responsibility.

• Create / change of master data for general ledgers as per the request from businesses & support functions.
• Execute all monthly SAP closing activities for multiple plant sites within each supported business.
• Responsible for month end SAP to BCS balancing and related reconciliations
• Responsible and accountable for review and approve the reconciliation
• Provide critical oversight that reconciliations are being performed correctly and Celanese account reconciliation policy is being adhered to
• Require timely intervention into account problems and issues so proper resolution can be obtained to ensure financial statement misstatements are avoided
• Ultimate accountability for timeliness, correctness, and completeness of account reconciliations.
• Working with team and customer to ensure delivery as per agreed timelines.

• Primary contact for external and internal audit matters
• Provide accounting guidance to other accounting teams and business
• Responsible for month end SAP to BCS balancing and related reconciliations
• Ensure journal postings are done after prior approvals as required by SOX and Celanese JEV policy while performing the journal entry review activity.
• Support execution and maintenance of effective internal controls in line with SOX 404 as well as the Celanese Internal Control Standards manual

Qualifications 要求

• MBA or CMA or CA Inter with minimum 2 – 4 years of experience.

• Experience in US GAAP, IFRS and/or other Local GAAPs.
• Business proficiency in English required.
• Good Microsoft Office skills required.
• Advanced knowledge of SAP is an asset.