Essential Functions of the Job:
- The Country Accounting Manager Support Team assist the CAM in providing financial input to the Country Leaders
- Should have excellent knowledge of the key controlling processes including: audit support, accounting, corporate finance, tracking budget and expenses and analysing data
- Support the CAM in Partner related matters
- Produce and analyse financial statements, including commentary suitable for use at board level
- Produce and communicate concise and clear financial information for use in decision making
- Own and proactively manage the balance sheet
- Work across multiple functions and geographies to ensure compliance with relevant tax and regulatory requirements
- Support and proactively engage with the external audit team to ensure that audit queries are dealt with appropriately
- Work with the General Ledger team to ensure correct processing of transactions and deliver accurate and timely month end accounting closes
- Perform critical account reconciliations, generate financial statement for management and statutory purposes
- Ensure that financial transactions are booked in compliance with EYs accounting policies
- Work across the team to ensure that group transactions are reflected accurately in each entity’s financials
- Support ad-hoc projects
Analytical/Decision Making Responsibilities:
- Production of key management information and analysis to be used by leadership in the decision-making process
- Forecast and track deviation to expected results
Knowledge and Skills Requirements:
- Knowledge of Controllership processes, developing standards, audit, accounting, corporate finance, developing budgets, tracking budget expenses, analyzing information, performance management
- High proficiency in managing full local statutory compliance process for selected country / region
- Prior hands on experience with consolidations inside a complex legal entity structure with foreign subsidiaries
- Excellent accounting software user and administration skills
- Strong appreciation for the importance of ensuring accuracy in all levels of financial reporting
- Able to work in a self-sufficient manner, operating across multiple priorities to defined timelines
- Demonstrates the ability to challenge assumptions and decisions in an appropriate manner
- Highly motivated professional with a strong personal and professional ethic, integrity and commitment to excellence
- Must be an analytical thinker, comfortable taking initiative in situations where thought leadership is either absent or unclear
- Open minded and culturally sensitive; well-structured and self-driven work approach; innovation driven
- Understanding of the business:
- Understands NextWave strategy and applies constantly to analyse and advise on financial performance
- Knowledgeable of EY capabilities and services
Supervision Responsibilities:
- Must be willing to develop as a leader with a view to future supervisory opportunities
Education:
- Graduate and/or professional certification in a business related subject matter (i.e. Accounting, Finance) is required to perform this position.
Experience:
- 4-7 years of professional experience in Finance, Accounting or Controlling
- Experience in or knowledge of accounting within a professional services environment, including compliance and reporting
- Strong experience with creating and analyzing financial statements
- Strong experience with general ledger functions and the month-end/year end close process
Certification Requirements:
- CA/ CPA or other professional certification is helpful.
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