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Job Description:
Purpose of role
The GA, Analyst is responsible for ensuring accurate and timely recording, collection, and processing of end to end process in general accounting and reporting, fixed assets, accounts receivables, credit, accounts payable, costing, performance reporting, statutory accounting, and direct tax transactions while ensuring adherence to policies and procedures in the drive for outstanding customer service, operational excellence and compliance
Key Results / Accountabilities
Manage and coordinate the reconciliation of the respective systems to ensure they balance and that any discrepancies or variations are investigated and corrected.
Provide relevant advice and information to staff across GBS and its customers as and when required.
Regularly supervise and resolve outstanding general accounting and reporting issues that have been escalated, or further escalate to the required parties.
Proactively identify, propose and implement continuous improvement opportunities in existing processes within the team.
Liaise with senior stakeholders internally and externally.
Blackline Reconciliations
Ensure 100% accuracy and timeliness of group and statutory reports in accordance to agreed service levels.
Develop a good understanding of the customer organisation as well as the business in to be able to deliver high quality service.
Managing the day to day work activities of the team and ensuring the necessary skills and experience are available to meet the challenges of a demanding and complex workload.
High level of familiarity with the various systems used for the different functions (e.g. general accounting, reporting, direct tax, etc.) in order to maintain and reconcile the accounts receivable system to ensure it balances correctly.
Liaising with customers and colleagues in different geographical locations, time zones and potentially in different languages using different systems requiring rigorous coordination between teams.
Managing team members who are servicing different customers in various geographical locations and using different systems.
Any Other Relevant Information (Particular reference to planning (nature and impact), scope of impact (Team, BU, Segment, BP globally etc)
This covers Key Decisions and to what extent? Types of relationship internally and externally that the person required maintaining contact with.
This position’s primary interfaces are:
Internal
GBS teams
GBS business partners
External
Auditors
Qualification & Experience and Competencies
Education and Experience
Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting.
Recognised professional accounting qualification (e.g. MIA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA) preferable but not mandatory.
Minimum of 5 - 6 years of experience in general and/or financial accounting.
Required Criteria
English language competency.
SAP system experience.
Preferred Criteria
Shared service centre experience.
Open to work in all time zones.
Open to working on weekends, if requisite by business
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