Financial Accountant with Spanish (FTC)

Job description

Position Title: Financial Accountant with Spanish

Department: Finance

Report to: Finance Supervisor

Location: Westport, Mayo

Position Summary:

The Financial Accountant with European Language is accountable to deliver accurate and timely financial information from the point of transaction through to financial close and periodic external reporting (monthly, quarterly, and annually). This individual will support all accounting processes, through effective, efficient and regulatory (SOX) compliant finance processes, and in accordance with US GAAP/ Local GAAP (IFRS). Responsibilities include:

· Deliver guidance, insight, and technical expertise as it relates to general accounting.

· Support of the day to day capture of performance metrics at the functional, team and individual level

Main areas of responsibility:

Responsible for delivery of the general accounting processes and activities of the Shared Service organisation including individual, shared service and outsourced activities. Activities will include;

· Journal entry, review and approval

· Balance Sheet review and approval

· Preform VAT/Vies/Intrastat reporting requirements

· Facilitate and perform period close activities

· Develop and maintain balancing and control standards

· Perform variance analyses and reconciliations, as required.

· Monitor and correct more complex data and information errors

· Address questions from internal and external teams are required

· Coach/ support fellow team members to handle more complex issues/ exceptions

As an individual contributor and team member; develop and deliver process documentation, training content, and super user support for more complex accounting activities, as requested, including but not limited to;

· General accounting

· VAT accounting

· Close and consolidations

· Fixed assets, capital project accounting

· Inter-Company transactions and allocations

· Chart of accounts management

· SOX compliance, internal controls

Participate in process improvement reviews across retained finance, captive shared service and outsourced teams as a part of ongoing exception management and continuous improvement activities;

· Support development of clearly defined, achievable team and individual goals.

· Capture and review scorecard KPI and measurement outcomes on a daily, weekly, and period basis.

· Evaluate exceptions to process, quality, and service delivery commitments by category.

· Participate in the prioritization of targeted exceptions.

· Perform root cause analysis for more complex exceptions.

· Investigate outstanding reconciliations and associated variances.

· Through continuous improvement activities and root cause analysis continue to address and eliminate data integrity and quality issues over time.

Support data integrity and preparation of financial information to ensure completeness, accuracy, timeliness and accessibility of financial information;

· Sustain minimum effective controls in compliance with Sarbanes, WWPS, US GAAP, Local GAAP/IFRS and any other accounting pronouncements and policies required.

· Preparation of information for both External & Internal Audits.

· Read, understand and execute on the policies and standards communicated by the Global Process Managers and the Corporate Controller.

· Participate in training and professional development activities to continue to develop Finance capabilities and professional expertise.

· Properly utilize the J&J standard chart of accounts, sustaining the agreed data definitions and usage.

Understand, participate, and comply with standard demand management and service management processes;

· Review and sustain Mutual Service Account (MSA) delivery standards required to support the internal J&J customers, as well as the Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with the 3rd party outsource service providers, and deliver to commitments on a period, quarterly and annual basis.

· Perform ad hoc and special projects assignments, as required.

Project Accountabilities/Scope

· Participate in the design, build, and implementation activities to develop common end-state financial and accounting processes in support of their direct supervisor

· Participate in exception management and continuous improvement activities, as a part of his/her day to day work effort in accordance with the global, regional and country specific Record to Report (R2R) process standards

· Develop and deliver process documentation, training content, and super user support as requested for special projects and continuous improvement work efforts

· Coach and mentor peers, 3rd party outsource service provider staff, and less experienced team members to perform effectively in their role

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Education & Experience

Essential

· Bachelor's Degree in finance and accounting, preferred

· Statistics or economics or local country equivalent, considered

· Qualified Accountant – CPA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA

Essential Experience

· 3-5 years of general accounting experience in a complex global Shared Services environment

· Demonstrated capability to understand accounting outcomes and explain US Gaap accounting treatment, utilizing excellent English language skills

· Demonstrated capability of completing VAT reporting requirements

· SAP or other enterprise systems experience

· Process excellence experience

Preferred Experience

· 3-5 years of accounting of industry finance experience

· 3 years' experience in inventory/manufacturing accounting

· External Audit/ Public Accounting experience

Minimum Language Skills: English & 2 nd European Language required. Spanish highly desirable.