Senior AccountantCHEP

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  Performance of the End-to-End Record to Report/ Financial Accounting processes, including the monthly close process to BRACS submission and approval.
• Performance of a range of assigned month end close processes including preparing and reviewing balance sheet reconciliations, and preparation of journals to support the month end process
• Application of accounting standards and practices in accordance with accounting standards, policy and local country requirements.
• Follow up balance sheet items for assigned accounts and ensure these are resolved timeously
• Liaise with the R2R Service Delivery Manager to co-ordinate the 3rd Party Provider’s assigned scope of work, providing constructive feedback where necessary to improve collective E2E performance.
• Statutory Reporting:
• Data preparation to support the preparation of Brambles and local in country statutory accounts for the countries within the region.
• Preparation of accounting technical papers and supporting audit schedules.
• Provide technical expertise to ensure accurate and timely compliance with filings, including working with external providers to meet local compliance requirements.
• Preparation of Annual Financial Statements in compliance with applicable Framework.
• Policy & Compliance: support the implementation of group policies and procedures as directed. Performs substantive testing of controls to assess effectiveness of the control environment.
• Transformation & Standardisation: Support the standardisation (by implementation) of accounting processes to drive global standard.

Accountabilities will include 2 or more of the following sub-processes:

Intercompany:

• Fulfill the business needs for Intercompany reporting
• Perform workings and analysis for intercompany charges
• Liaise with 3rd Party Service Provider to raise intercompany invoices and accruals
• Analyse and resolve any anomalies on Intercompany
• Responsible for month end, Half Year End and Year End reporting on Intercompany (including BRACS requirements)

Payroll Accounting:

• Liaise with Payroll to resolve uncleared items in Balance Sheet reconciliations
• Ensure no Risk items in Balance Sheet reconciliations, by proposing corrections to Payroll reconciliations
• Responsible for month end, Half Year End and Year End reporting on Payroll (including BRACS requirements)

GRNI Accounting:

• Liaise with Business, I2P and 3rd Party Service Provider to ensure GRNI is cleared in accordance with Group policy
• Responsible for month end, Half Year End and Year End reporting on GRNI (including BRACS requirements)

Lease Accounting

• Liaise with Business, Procurement and Commercial teams to ensure the SAP lease module is updated timeously and accurately in accordance with Group policy
• Responsible for month end, Half Year End and Year End reporting on Leases (including BRACS requirements)

BRACS (Group reporting system):

• Responsible for accurate submission of monthly actual financial data, including statutory disclosures
• Collation of data required for monthly BRACS submission
• Submission of additional schedules, and liaison with 3rd Party Service Provider where required, for Half Year End and Year End reporting

Other

• Assist with the review and submission of monthly, bi-annual and annual reporting based on Group requirements, including ad-hoc requests and queries.
• Input into the annual budget and quarterly forecasting processes
• Assist with the year-end external audit
• Assist with Group or local internal audits, and contribute to improvements in business processes and internal control
• Provide support to Management on ad hoc projects

Challenges

• Working across multiple countries, time zones, currencies, languages, cultures, regulatory and tax environments
• Navigating the complexity of working in a matrix structure
• Overtime may be required
• Firm deadlines
• Liaising with 3rd Party Service Provider

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance/ Accounting or in a relevant finance technical discipline
• Certified Accountant (e.g. ACA, CIMA, CPA, CA) Preferred

Experience

• 3+ years’ experience in Financial Accounting role required, with experience in a public company or foreign listed company multinational environment beneficial
• IFRS experience required
• Advanced Excel
• Experience with local GAAP applicable to the sub-region beneficial
• Previous experience in working with a global finance team associated with geographically diverse businesses beneficial
• SAP FI experience preferred

Skills and Knowledge

• Awareness of FP&A, Commercial and Supply Chain Finance processes
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills
• Solid understanding of multi-currency finance environments
• A person with good people management skills, a team player, who is organised, systematic, accurate, self-motivated and able to work under pressure to meet deadlines, would be most effective in this position.
• Consistent behaviour even under strong pressure