As the SSC R2R Accountant, you will be responsible for the daily operations of the designated areas of Record to Report processes by ensuring that the processes are handled in a timely manner. You develop and improve our way-of-working with R2R processes and are responsible for enabling efficient collaboration with relevant stakeholders, to ensure quality within our reporting.
Job Responsibilities:
- Make sure and execute the daily operation in an efficient way within in the R2R GL Accounting area according to the SLA including but not limited to:
- Preparation of journal entries in excel template, uploading the journal entries in Cadency tool Journal Module.
- Seeking inputs from respective departments that have dependency to carry out the tasks like journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, reports etc.
- Ensure the tasks assigned to you are completed on a timely manner as per the defined due dates.
- Ensure the tasks assigned to you are performed with 100% accuracy.
- Must have SAP T-code knowledge for booking journal entries, extracting reports, performing account reconciliations. FB03, FB02, FBL3n, FBL1n, FBL5n etc
- Must have excel knowledge like Vlookup, Hlookup etc.
- Perform peer to peer review within the team (as required)
- Should have worked in at least one or two of the functions. And should possess domain knowledge on these functions: Fixed Asset, Payroll, Cash, Intercompany, Revenue accounting, OPEX.
- Should be a team player and support the peer (when required) in completing the tasks.
- Actively participate in the knowledge transfer sessions with the trainer/group. Ensure all the trained activities are documented, SOPs are documented.
- Should ensure the SOPs are up-to-date and reflect steps as per current process.
- Ensure the leads are well-informed in case of any issues/delay in performing the activities.
- Ensure the leads are kept informed about any emergency leave. Ensure enough back-up/succession plan in place before-hand so that no surprises on the deliverables.
Stakeholder Management:
- Should have effective communication skills which is needed to ask relevant questions, consult with other departments like AR and AP.
- Should have good writing skills to ensure emails from various stakeholders are actioned on timely manner and responded to with adequate information.
- Being accountable and meet the legal obligations in reference to local laws, regulations and requirements.
- Ensure clear communication to internal and external stakeholders.
Knowledge & Skills:
- 6+ years of overall experience within a similar role, good knowledge of general accepted accounting practices is an advantage.
- Minimum 4+ years of experience in R2R.
- Process competence (incl. technical skills, communication skills, system integrations, being able to handle machine learning and automation)
- Communication skills - training others and giving both internal and external support in all communication channels and forums.
- Experience in working with accounting related tasks.
- Experience of running and developing new and existing accounting processes
- SAP experience is an advantage.
- Experience of having worked in a shared service center is an advantage.
- Experience of RPA is an advantage.
- Planning and optimize.
- Both written and oral English skills are mandatory
University degree or higher education within Business Administration (or similar) or equivalent experience within accounting
