General Ledger Accountant and General Ledger Cleck Job in Barcelona, Catalonia Spain
GENERAL LEADER ACCOUNTANT
Essential Functions/Responsibilities
- The job holder is responsible, together with one or more Record to Report Clerks, for providing general ledger accounting support to a grouping of (approximately) 1-3 countries for balance sheet reconciliations, fixed asset accounting, inter-company accounting, and preparation of reports and statistics detailing financial results to a high standard
- As the Record to Report team develops there will be requirements to perform some activities over a range of countries to ensure processes remain efficient, although responsibility to a grouping of approximately 3 countries will remain.
For the countries within the country grouping:
- Manage the performance of the country financial accounting and reporting areas, including fixed assets, general ledger accounting activities to preparation of the trial balance, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and monthly financial reporting and related analysis.
- Support local finance director in the preparation of VAT returns, Intrastat and other local statutory financial information
- Review all journal entries created by direct reports for completeness and accuracy.
- Review all balance sheet reconciliations for accuracy and completeness (including follow-up of open items for resolution in the following month for all accounts).
· Review, analyze, and reconcile all account balances related to the income statement and balance sheet.
· Preparation and review of daily, weekly, and monthly corporate report packages.
- Assist in the timely and accurate financial close and account reconciliation processes.
- Assist the development and preparation of timely well organized and complete financial reports.
· Creation, preparation, and review of a detailed internal financial reporting package.
· Coordinate and perform month-end closing procedures.
- Coordinate capital asset accounting and reporting
- Responsible for the completeness, accuracy, validity and proper presentation of financial reports that are prepared by the country team on behalf of the local markets which are supported in line with the month end calendar and external reporting requirements
· Provide guidance for direct reports and lower level accountants.
- Cooperate with all audits (e.g. 401K, Bank, EY, Sales Tax, Internal)
- Maintain internal controls surrounding all financial processes. Ensure that all Sarbanes-Oxley and financial external and internal audit requirements are satisfied.
- Execute accounting activities that meet or exceed the shared service centre key performance indicators (KPI’s) and support the continuous improvement culture.
- Minimize and/or eliminate operational and financial control risks to the business at all times.
- Identify, evaluate and resolve complex operational issues.
Coordinate and/or participate in projects assigned to the Shared Service Centre
GENERAL LEDGER CLECK
Essential Functions/Responsibilities
- The job holder is responsible, alongside with one or more other Record to Report Clerks, for providing general ledger accounting support to a grouping of (approximately) 1-3 countries for balance sheet reconciliations, fixed asset accounting, inter-company accounting, and preparation of reports and statistics detailing financial results to a high standard
- As the Record to Report team develops there will be requirements to perform some activities over a range of countries to ensure processes remain efficient, although responsibility to a grouping of approximately 3 countries will remain.
For the countries within the country grouping:
- Responsible for accurate and timely financial close and GL and other account reconciliations
· Performs accounting functions such as balance sheet reconciliations, fixed asset accounting, inter-company accounting and preparation of reports and statistics detailing financial results
· Responsible for timely and accurate preparation and processing of journal entries (with appropriate supporting documentation) for month end close and accounting transactions
- Responsible for compliance with all shared service centre and business objectives, policies (e.g. Sarbanes-Oxley, Navigator) and plans related to and within scope of responsibility
· Responsible for preparing analysis and schedules for management and internal and external auditors
· Supporting local business finance managers through preparation of the monthly close process including preparation of related financial statements and supporting documents in compliance with the monthly financial reporting as defined in European Finance operating procedures
· Provides back up support to co-workers where needed
· Special projects as requested