What would I be doing?

Purpose

The Temporary Senior Accountant supports the integrity and accuracy of financial reporting by owning accounting activities not covered under the companies Shared Services model, while ensuring compliance with GAAP / IFRS and company standards.

This role acts as a key business-side accounting partner, focusing on review, validation, analysis, and control ownership, rather than transactional processing performed by Shared Services.

  • Ensure accuracy, completeness, and business validation of outputs.
  • Own areas explicitly out of scope of Financial Services.
  • Work in methodological, looking for optimizations and leveraging Microsoft Office tools (Excel) and is process oriented.
  • Act as primary liaison between business stakeholders, Finance Director and FS.

What would make me qualified?

Key Accountabilities

FSCP / General Ledger Maintenance

  • Coordinate and support monthly, quarterly, close in partnership with FS.
  • Plan and document close of period activities.
  • Communicate ledger entries and accruals to FS – develop and maintain appropriate documented methodology.
  • Execute documented reconciliations and trial balances.
  • Prepared judgmental journal entries not covered by FS.
  • Reviews accruals and liaise with business stakeholders to document balances and backups.

Accounts Payable

  • Lead reconciliation process for main vendors: liaise with business stakeholders.
  • Analyze AP and propose invoices to be paid and sent to FS.

Inventory Control

  • Liaise with FS for sales reconciliation process and ensure all postings are appropriate.
  • Create tool for reconciliation of inventory.

Financial Reporting

  • Review monthly financial statements produced by FS and validate accuracy and business context.
  • Reconcile financial statements between SAP and company reporting tools.
  • Collaborate with FP&A to ensure consistency between P&L and B/S during forecast cycles.

Other

  • Take on special projects or ad hoc analyses as directed by Manager.