Senior Accountant

ASSA ABLOY•Phoenix, AZ

16h

About The Position

The Sr. Accountant is responsible for areas relating to general ledger, balance sheet, and financial reporting. Experience with JDE ERP systems would be helpful. This position will be responsible for ensuring compliance with IFRS, ASSA ABLOY Accounting Manual, and ASSA ABLOY Americas accounting guidelines. The role involves reviewing processes, practices, and procedures to ensure accurate and timely financial statements and reports, and continuously improving the efficiency and accuracy of accounting processes. The Sr. Accountant may supervise and/or work with applicable accountants and is responsible for leading and ensuring that work is properly allocated and completed in a timely and accurate manner for the company.

Requirements

BS/BA in Accounting, Finance, Business or related
5 years of related accounting, financial reporting and analysis experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Ability to read, write, and interpret documents in English.
Good communication skills both written and verbal.
Ability to speak effectively before groups of people and present meaningful financial data for non-financial viewers.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, algebraic formulas, and statistics.
Must know, understand and utilize advanced Excel formulas.
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
Ability to solve practical problems
Proficiency in spreadsheets, email, word processing, and presentation software
Extremely proficient in financial modeling and analysis, utilizing Excel formulas.
While performing the functions of this position, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand, walk, stoop and kneel; use hands, reach with hands and arms; communicate clearly and effectively.
The employee may also be occasionally required to lift up to 35 pounds.

Nice To Haves

CMA/CPA/MBA preferred.
Experience JDE ERP systems would be helpful.
Experience or understanding Excel add in applications like Smart View.
Database programs and business intelligence programs like Power BI, and Business Objects is helpful.
HFM and JDE system experience will be useful.

Responsibilities

Help lead accounting changes and manage multiple projects relating to improvement and integration efforts
Develop, populate, and provide month end reporting requirements for the company
Review reports and work processes to ensure timely and accurate reporting
Develop and implement group reporting standards and processes
Lead the monthly analyses and preparation of general ledger account reconciliations (Prepaid, Accruals, AR, and AP), report variances, report recons through Floqast, recommend and implement processes to reduce errors, and take corrective actions as appropriate.
Analyze Sales reporting and forecasting activities
Analyze AR and assist Shared Services AR by problem solving issues
Review and submit monthly journal entries and recurring entries to ensure accuracy
Responsible for Headcount reporting and reconciliations.
Review GL integrity reports and ensure reconciliation of general ledger to sub ledger detail
Inputs/Upload/validate Financial Data to corporate financial database HFM (and its replacement with OneStream).
Monitor and help implement associated internal controls in support of Internal Audit
Analyzes variances and trends providing data for and/or making recommendations to management for improvement and adjustments.
Assist with city and state sales tax filing and TRIP reporting.
Maintains and monitors recurring journal entries and allocations as needed.
Acts as backup to Controller in closing the periods on the JD Edwards system and preparation of financial statements.
Assists with special projects.
Reconciliation of general ledger and sub ledger.
Ability to effectively handle multiple tasks simultaneously with exceptional organizational and communications skills.
Keyboard skills and ten-key operation skills
Advanced proficiency in Excel, Word, Power Point and Outlook.
Logical problem solving abilities.
Conform with the organizations ISO 9001 & 14001 requirements