GA, Senior Analyst

10-15 Years

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Job Description

Ensure the team s accurate and timely delivery of end to end process in general accounting and reporting, fixed assets, accounts receivables, credit, accounts payable, costing, performance reporting, statutory accounting and direct tax services (i.e. journal postings, GL maintenance, system postings, report preparation, reconciliations, tax submissions, etc.) liaising with SLA
Manage and coordinate the reconciliation of the respective systems to ensure they balance and that any discrepancies or variations are investigated and corrected.
Provide relevant advice and information to staff across GBS and its customers as and when required.
Regularly supervise and resolve outstanding general accounting and reporting issues that have been raised, or further escalate to the vital parties.
Proactively identify, propose and implement continuous improvement opportunities in existing processes within the team.
Sound knowledge on SAP, AO tools
Liaise with senior partners internally and externally

Leadership Supervisory

Carry out people management responsibilities in accordance with the organisation s policies and applicable laws, including:
Plan, assign and advise on work for team members.
Set goals and clarity expectations, provide regular feedback and conduct appraisals where required with direct reports.
Coach team to address process gaps, identify inefficiencies and help to embed a continuous improvement culture in the organisation
Provide mentoring, guidance and feedback team to support long term career development and retention of key talent.
Identify and provide opportunities for learning and self-development to build capability of the teams and ensure competency in performing activities. Secure resources to support development efforts.
Continuously strive to build a culture of high-performance.Assign work to team members and handle resource allocation for the team and people in support of GBS service, control and cost requirements. Ensure resource allocation strategy is flexible enough to respond to demand variations.

Key Challenges

Ensure 100% accuracy and timeliness of group and statutory reports in accordance to agreed service levels.
Develop a strong understanding of customer organisation as well as the business in order to be able to deliver high quality service.
Handling the day to day work activities of team and ensuring the vital skills and experience are available to meet challenges of a demanding and sophisticated load.
Familiarity with the various systems used for the different functions (e.g. general accounting, reporting, direct tax, etc.) Maintain and reconcile the accounts receivable system to ensure it balances correctly.
Collaborating closely with customers and colleagues in different geographical locations, time zones and potentially in different languages using varios ystems requiring meticulous coordination between teams.

Education and Experience

Bachelor s Degree in Accounting.
Recognised professional accounting qualification (e.g. CA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA, MBA Finance).
Minimum of 10 - 15 years of proven experience in general and/or financial accounting.
Minimum of 4 -5 years of proven experience in leading, developing and coaching teams.

Required Criteria