Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

Technical Accounting Financial Analyst role will handle the following types of responsibilities:

• Lead technical accounting research and preparation of position papers; document conclusions of key judgments and estimates with management and external auditors
• Providing support to finance teams and business partners on technical accounting matters as required, including research, analysis, and documentation of conclusions related to contracts and operational matters and leading the implementation of, and compliance with, new accounting requirements
• Ensuring the quarterly contingency and one-timer reporting process is executed with no exception.
• Performing extensive benchmarking evaluations
• Monitoring, assessing, documenting and communicating new GAAP, SEC and other accounting and disclosure issues
• Coordinating with various departments to assist in providing and vetting financial information
• Drafting and updating AFM accounting policies and memos

These activities will involve actively participating in meetings across multiple organizations and identifying and solving problems. There will also be involvement with quarter end close activities including providing auditors documentation to support the accounting conclusions made.

Skills needed:

• Detailed understanding of accounting rules
• Consults with business leaders to guide and influence strategic decision-making within a broad scope.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvement and policy development and engages in the design.
• Ability to influence multiple organizations within a broad scope, typically interacting with other managers and directors.
• Excellent understanding of accounting principles and financial analysis.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Superior business application skills (e.g., Microsoft Excel).
• Superior communication and influencing skills.
• Superior teamwork skills
• Excellent business acumen.
• Excellent project management skills.

Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance;
• CPA/CA equivalents required;
• 6 years post qualification experience in technical accounting, including Big-4 accounting firms and/or Controllership within large multinational, publicly-held companies;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to effectively communicate status, issues, risks and opportunities with CFR leadership team;
• Proven ability to communicate complex topics and concepts to a wide and diverse audience, including meeting facilitation and presentations;
• Exposure to ERP accounting and finance systems such as SAP preferred;