Accounting and Financial Reporting Accountant III
About The Position
The Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) General Accounting team is responsible for the Accounting and Financial Reporting process of DTNA. As a business partner, the team ensures transparency, provides accounting guidance and services, and drives compliance with accounting and financial reporting rules within DTNA and the Daimler Truck Division. This Sr. Accountant III role, within the Tax and Treasury Accounting Group (a Center of Excellence/Share Service Center), will support a mix of responsibilities, approximately 75% tax accounting and 25% treasury accounting. The position involves complex tax accounting functions, including preparing and reviewing tax provision calculations, interpreting tax and accounting regulations, and developing disclosures for financial reporting. It also supports treasury accounting activities by preparing treasury financial statements and cross-training to back up the current treasury accountant. This role will lead continuous improvement initiatives, identifying process enhancements, driving efficiencies, and supporting improvements to systems, controls, and workflows. The role also involves learning and utilizing new technology to benefit the tax accounting team, developing business process maps, technical documentation, design documents, and managing configuration and enhancement requests.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or related field
- 5+ years of accounting experience required
- Strong attention to detail with a track record of identifying discrepancies, validating assumptions, and ensuring data accuracy
- Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written)
- Problem solving and time management skills
- Ability to work effectively and efficiently under tight deadlines
- An attached resume is required
- Must be able to work flexible hours/week (weekends and holidays as required)
Nice To Haves
- Experience with financial statement preparation and/or income tax accounting is preferred.
- CPA and Public Accounting preferred
- Accounting experience that is a mix of public accounting and/or private industry accounting is strongly preferred
Responsibilities
- Prepare and review tax provision calculations
- Develop disclosures for financial reporting
- Prepare treasury financial statements
- Support complex tax accounting activities and related analyses
- Contribute to accurate financial data through provision calculations and treasury reporting
- Prepare and review journal entries to support tax and treasury accounting activities
- Perform account reconciliations to ensure accuracy and completeness of financial data
- Conduct variance analysis and investigate fluctuations in financial results, including tax provisions and treasury balances
- Support team coverage through cross-training to provide back-up support for treasury accounting functions
- Partner with cross-functional teams including Tax, Treasury, IT, and external auditors to support financial reporting and compliance
- Provide accounting guidance and insights to business stakeholders on tax and treasury-related matters
- Collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure alignment on reporting requirements and timelines
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives
- Identify process enhancement opportunities and drive efficiencies
- Support enhancements to systems, workflows, and controls
- Learn and apply new technologies to meet business needs
- Leverage technology to improve tax accounting processes
- Interpret tax and accounting regulations to support accurate reporting
- Assist in ensuring compliance with financial reporting requirements
- Support improvements to internal controls and processes
- Contribute to maintaining a strong control environment through process enhancements and documentation
- Execute and document internal controls in compliance with SOX and internal control over financial reporting (ICFR) requirements
- Support internal and external audit processes by providing documentation and responding to inquiries
- Contribute to the design, enhancement, and monitoring of controls to ensure a strong and compliant control environment
- Lead and participate in continuous improvement and transformation initiatives
- Work across functions to implement process and system enhancements
- Participate in cross-functional projects involving Finance, Tax, Treasury, and IT teams to implement system and process improvements
- Support system implementations, upgrades, and process transformation initiatives
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure successful execution of project objectives and alignment with business goals
Benefits
- annual bonus program
- 401k company contribution with company match up to 6% as well as non-elective company contribution of 3 - 7% depending on age
- starting at 4 weeks paid vacation
- 15 calendar holidays
- 8 weeks paid parental leave
- employee assistance program
- comprehensive healthcare plans and wellness programs
- onsite fitness (at some locations)
- tuition assistance and volunteer paid time off
- short-term and long-term disability plans
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
