Accounting Manager
Qualifications / Requirements
- Good communication skills (verbal and written)
- Attention to detail.
- Strong analytical reasoning skills
- Good self management practices, managing multiple deliverables and deadlines
- International perspective
- Experience of working with people from diverse backgrounds
- Spanish skills advantageous but not essential
- High energy and commitment
Responsibilities
- All local USGAAP statutory accounting requirements are met, submission of statutory returns and liaison with the external auditors.
- Ensure the monthly preparation of the corporate financial statements: income statement, balance sheet and cash flow.
- Processing of all miscellaneous billing in Great Plains (outgoing invoices) such as Group service charge invoices, management fees, procurement service charges and miscellaneous billing of intercompany expenses. (± 200-250 billings/year, only inter-group customers).
- Processing and managing of supplier invoices in Great Plains and maintain a sound purchase to pay process for the company.
- Processing of travel and entertainment expenses using the Great Plains workflow expense reporting tools
- Manage and control all corporate credit cards currently with American Express and maintain the automated upload of credit card statements.
- Handle all credit card queries, suspensions, losses, claims and replacements.
- Being the lead contact for all corporate banking relationships.
- Assure and maintain the appropriate controls in all the Purchase to pay process
- Maintaining a monthly closing file with full accounts, reconciliations, analyses, intercompany and cash flow projections.
- Ensuring the introduction of appropriate finance and administration policies
- Liaising with key suppliers ensuring with, legal input, valid contracts/agreements are in place.
- Producing quarterly SVP expense reports for sign-off by the President. .
- Ensuring the monthly upload into HFM for the company is done on a timely basis and all validations are clear. The same process would be applied for quarterly forecasts, budgets and plans.
- Liaising with HR on any headcount moves and ensuring headcount analyses reconcile with HR and adequate explanations received for variances.
- Liaising with HR (Comp and benefits) on pay costs and explanations for variances to budget/PF´s.
- Ensuring management accounts are produced monthly and delivered to management on a timely basis.
- Liaising with Group/Plc/MBCO Treasury functions to ensure adequate cash flow forecasting and funding of the company.
- Ensuring all Group transfer pricing policies are applied and documentation appropriately maintained.
- Supervision of petty cash and maintenance of bank reconciliations.
- Reviewing bookkeeping and accounting work of staff (accounts receivable, banking, petty cash, accounts payable, revenues and expenses; local payroll entries,).
- Ensuring all intercompany accounts are reconciled monthly with the counterparty.
- Following up on all overdue intercompany balances.
- Preparation of monthly and quarterly financial reports required by regional office Management
- Preparation and management of the Hub office Budget and financial planning and forecasting cycles.
- Maintain and train staff on the use of the great plains expense report process and workflow authorization process
- Analyze monthly the execution of the expenses of each functional area against the latest forecast.
- Ensuring staff complete Debtors, creditors and expense analyses monthly.
- Assisting in tax administration (federal and state tax) (preparation of monthly/quarterly/annual tax returns, supervision of tax payments, assisting with any tax audits when necessary).
- Carrying out yearend tasks for the annual Group audit, as well as preparation of the annual financial statements for statutory purposes.
Education / Training
- Qualified accountant (CPA or equivalent)
Background
- At least 5-8 years experience in financial accounting, management accounting, reporting, budgeting and cash flow management
- Expertise in accounting software’s (Ej SAP, Great Plains).
- Experience with financial planning and modeling
- Understanding of direct and indirect taxes and a management services environment
- Understanding of treasury and cash flow management
- Familiarity with information technology systems, controls (SOX) and processes associated with the Finance function particularly SAP (FI) Microsoft Excel, Databases (Access), HFM.
- USGAAP knowledge