What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Accountant position at Duke Corporate Education?
At Duke Corporate Education (Duke CE), we empower leaders at all levels to be catalysts of change in their organizations and, ultimately, in society. Duke CE is the premier global provider of leadership solutions in context, consistently top-ranked by the Financial Times. We embrace our clients' challenges as our own, designing and delivering advisory services and customized leadership development to propel organizations forward.
We are seeking a Senior Accountant to join our Finance team, The individual will be responsible for day-to-day accounting, reporting and analysis, finance systems and process improvement across multiple global entities and functional areas. The ideal candidate will be hands-on and proactive, keen to leverage technology to improve processes and pace of work, and relish the opportunity to bring order in a transformational environment.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead mandatory reporting, ensuring accuracy and compliance with domestic and foreign regulations.
- Undertake day-to-day general ledger and period-end activities, including posting journal entries, adjusting the trial balance, calculating accruals and deferrals, and performing comprehensive balance sheet reconciliations and account analysis.
- Manage various accounting operations such as cash and banking, fixed asset accounting, accounts payables, accounts receivable, expenses and taxes.
- Establish and maintain robust supporting documentation for journal entries, adjustments, accruals, and account balances.
- Review and analyze month end results. Contribute to the preparation of monthly or ad-hoc presentation materials based on monthly results.
- Collaborate with IT and external partners for continuous improvement of financial systems and processes.
- Take the lead in external and/or internal audit engagements, preparing audit materials, responding to inquiries, and monitoring engagement progress.
- Troubleshoot and resolve accounting and reporting issues by partnering with internal and external stakeholders.
- Recommend and implement enhancements to accounting processes and workflows.
- Participate actively in special projects focused on improving process efficiency and performance.
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business or finance
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in corporate accounting and/or public accounting with experience in multiple geographies.
- CPA preferred.
- Keen interest in system enhancement and process improvement.
- Team player and collaborative.
- Tenacious and resilient, ability to handle ambiguity
- Willingness to be hands on and take on any work required to ensure a high standard of work and business support.
- Ability to work on site 4 days per week.