Senior Specialist Accounting (Temp 1 year)
Sr. Specialist System Reconciliation
Area: GBS
Department: GBS FINANCE
Direct Reporting Line: TBC
Indirect/secondary reporting line:
Subsidiary/Country: Colombia
Location: Bogotá
Regions to work: LAM/NAM
GSMS Grade: P1
Number of Personnel Managed: NA
Cost Center/Budget and/or Revenue Responsibility: NA
Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
In the current dynamic of real reporting to authorities, the main focus of this role is to ensure data between systems flows a timely and accurately manner. This includes, but is not limited to, manage the reconciliation process between systems, raise the issues found to the corresponding teams, follow up on the actions and ensure visibility to the main stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
▪ Perform weekly reconciliations of real reporting to the authorities across LAM. (e.g. Sales, purchasing)
▪ Investigate, raise issues and resolve discrepancies found on the reconciliation process.
▪ Promote and ensure automation projects are being implemented to guarantee doing the process in the most efficient way.
▪ Constant and open communication with the teams involved on the different parts of the process to support fast issue solving mindset.
▪ Manage the tasks under the standard established procedures.
▪ Give periodic visibility to main stakeholders.
▪ Raise escalation on time.
Key Relationships:
▪ Regional Accounting and Taxes teams
▪ Local Accounting and Taxes teams
▪ External taxes partner
▪ GBS teams
▪ Tech team
▪ FDs
▪ Channels’ operational teams
Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
▪ Understanding of accounting matters, quick problem-solving skills and strong collaboration with other finance and non-finance teams.
▪ Must be adaptable, flexible, and able to deal with ambiguity in an ever-changing environment while maintaining a positive attitude and working collaboratively within the team.
▪ Must be deadline driven, results-oriented, highly responsible and accountable, and possess excellent oral and written communication skills.
▪ Must be extremely proactive, have strong initiative and be self-motivated. High integrity, ethics and strong values; excellent organizational skills, detail-orientation, and a high degree of accuracy are all essential.
▪ Must have strong accounting and analytical skills.
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
▪ Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
▪ 2+ years of experience in Accounting and/or Finance.
▪ Fluency in written & spoken English.
▪ Proficient computer skills (MS-Office).
▪ SAP experience preferred.
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