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About you and this role:
As a Associate Accounting Specialist , you are responsible for providing consistent superior cost accounting support, services and act as co-pilot with functional stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Month End Closing – Generate and review reports for Cost Accountants using Diamond Systems Reporting, SAP, MS Access and MS Excel.
- Product Cost Estimates (PCE) – Generate reporting and investigate/resolve variances (monthly and quarterly).
- Global Material IDs (GMID) – Create and maintain accounting segments on requests received through the CMT/PMR tools or functional mailbox.
- Stock Take Observations – Coordinate and reconcile inventory counts using the paper reconciliation process.
- Manual Journal Entry processing and Miscellaneous Invoice creation.
- Cost Center Recovery, Service Billing and Internal Order Settlement
- Cost Center Budget Reporting
- Robotics Process Automation (RPA) – Monitor, resolve and escalate RPA issues as needed.
- Represent the CAEC team on new projects, work process changes, work process improvements, Robotics Process Automation, etc., participating with other Finance and Cost Accounting teams.
- Provide audit support for annual internal/external Cost Accounting related audits.
- Monitor multiple functional mailboxes and personal e-mail to investigate/respond to inquiries and on-going communications/follow-up with key stakeholders.
- Create/maintain thorough documentation for CAEC work processes and create/implement work process improvements or automations as needed.
- Records, monitors, report and communicates function/business results, and ensures activity is accurate, complete, and compliant to accounting standards.
- Perform product inventory reviews and fixed assets review.
- Provides financial analysis to function/business management teams as needed for project studies, options analysis, and productivity/benchmarking measurements.
Qualifications:
- Qualified CMA/CA - Fresher
- Inter CMA/Inter CA/MBA with 2+ years of costing and accounting experience
- B.com/M.com, or a relevant field and/or 4+ year’s of costing and accounting experience is required.
- Proficiency in Microsoft applications, such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.
Preferred Skills:
- Proficiency with SAP, Power BI, Power Query, and another RPA tool
- Costing/ Accounting, or similar work experience.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills are needed.
- Able to handle multiple priorities from multiple sources.
- Must be an organized self-starter exhibiting good judgment and the flexibility to adapt to priority changes and demands.
Additional Notes:
- Relocation is not available for this position.
- The ability to accommodate flexible schedule aligned with international time Zone is essential.
Benefits – What Dow offers you
We invest in you.
Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career. You bring your background, talent, and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.
Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee:
- Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives.
- Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental, financial, and social well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it.
- Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning, and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals.
- Employee stock purchase programs (availability varies depending on location).
- Student Debt Retirement Savings Match Program (U.S. only).
- Dow will take the value of monthly student debt payments and apply them as if they are contributions to the Employees’ Savings Plan (401(k)), helping employees reach the Company match.
- Robust medical and life insurance packages that offer a variety of coverage options to meet your individual needs. Travel insurance is also available in certain countries/locations.
- Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.
- Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.
- Competitive yearly vacation allowance.
- Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).
- Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.
- Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation.
- Wellbeing Portal for all Dow employees, our one-stop shop to promote wellbeing, empowering employees to take ownership of their entire wellbeing journey.
- On-site fitness facilities to help stay healthy and active (availability varies depending on location).
- Employee discounts for online shopping, cinema tickets, gym memberships and more.
- Additionally, some of our locations might offer:
- Transportation allowance (availability varies depending on location)
- Meal subsidiaries/vouchers (availability varies depending on location)
- Carbon-neutral transportation incentives e.g. bike to work (availability varies depending on location)
Join our team, we can make a difference together.
About Dow Chemical International Pvt Ltd
Dow Chemical International Private Limited (Dow India) aims to be the most innovative, sustainable, inclusive customer-centric materials science company. The company is committed to delivering the right solutions to its customers’ challenges. With broadest technology sets spanning performance materials, industrial intermediates, and plastics Dow India delivers differentiated science-based products and solutions in high-growth segments, such as packaging, infrastructure, automobile, and consumer care.
A Great Place to Work® Certified company with approximately over 1000 employees, its operations comprise of manufacturing sites, innovation center, established centers of excellence, and commercial office. As a responsible corporate, the company supports its Corporate Social Responsibility (program) with technology expertise and employee volunteerism. Dow India works with non-profit partners towards the empowerment of differently abled, women, and children in communities where it operates. The company aims to redefine the societal blueprint, by supporting holistic sustainability and circular economy initiatives.
As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Dow is committed to equal opportunities in employment. We encourage every employee to bring their whole self to work each day to not only deliver more value, but also have a more fulfilling career. Further information regarding Dow's equal opportunities is available on www.dow.com.
