The Senior Accountant, Procure to Pay (P2P) is responsible for creating and co-leading best practices in the accurate and timely recording of all financial transactions (financial reporting, payroll, treasury and tax). Responsible for supervising and managing outsourced processes. Act as the GFAS subject matter expert on foundation-wide projects and initiatives, as well as with subsidiary and related entities as they grow and mature and become reliant on our systems.
This position does have oversight responsibility of the individuals and work performed by the function but does not have any personnel supervisory responsibility. The Senior Accountant reports to the Senior Manager, Procure to Pay and works in a matrix environment and is expected to work collaboratively with professionals within GFAS and across the foundation.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Reviewing and releasing global payment batches for invoice, tax and payroll related payments Reviewing and posting journal entries; administering expense program; and reviewing monthly account reconciliations.
- Managing outsourced work, coordinating activities and answering questions as part of Tier II support provided to internal and external customers, and oversight of daily accounts payable and expense functions.
- Preparing complex payroll calculations, reporting metrics, tax and regulatory related workpapers. Maintaining policies and procedures in accordance with best practices.
- Preparing year-end audit schedules and the financial statements for the Foundation, Trust and benefit plan audits.
- Providing accounting guidance and training as needed, and other adhoc projects when requested. Maintain and act as subject matter expert for financial systems.
Educational Background:
Undergraduate degree, preferably in Accounting, Finance, Business, with 5+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
Skills/Experience:
- Strong initiative, organization skills and ability to work autonomously and cross-functionally while remaining flexible to changing tasks, priorities, and roles and responsibilities.
- Ability to bring work/projects to completion by quickly learning relevant information with minimal direction.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to professionally interact with staff and external partners at all levels.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Intellectually curious with solution orientation and the ability to identify new ways of working.
- Technical expert in their industry domain including processes, systems and tools with the ability to influence and implement change.
- End to end process management, including change management and internal controls.
- The ability to conduct research of complex issues (accounting, payroll, tax, regulatory) and provide recommendations.
- Project management skills and ability to supervise and manage the work of others, including external vendors.
- Ability to build strong relationships and credibility with clients and key decision makers.
- Models professional courage– engages in trust based debate, asks hard or unpopular questions, and is willing to say no.
- Trusted Advisor to colleagues throughout the organization.
- Systems knowledge in Concur, Microsoft Dynamics 365, MS Office, Workday and Salesforce are preferred but not required.
- Operational experience inside of an international or global entity is preferred, particularly with currencies and international payments.
Required Decision-Making/Judgment Skills
- Determining how transactions impact financial reporting.
- Making decisions on proper accounting in accordance with regulatory requirements and standards.
- Managing and prioritizing the work of others, including outsourced providers and associate.
- Dealing with ambiguity, managing up, problem solving, driving strategic action, synthesizing information that leads to sound judgment and decisions.
Internal and External Customers/Interactions
Internal:
- Frequent interaction with individuals on the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team regarding the release and timing of financial reports and the data contained in them. Contact is to help them understand the data underlying the numbers when needed.
- Frequent interaction with individuals in IT, HR, Global Workplace Resources (GWR) regarding various issues ranging from information needed from them to make a decision to information needed to complete a report and vice versa. Communication needs to be concise on what is needed, respectful of their time, but also let them know when it is needed. When providing information to them, it must be timely and complete and involves preparation of the information in a format that is easy to understand.
- Interaction with all members in GFAS, including the Controller and Assistant Controller, to gather information and to collaborate on standard and complex issues. This involves strong listening skills and communication skills. Presentation of results, findings and proposed solutions directly to the Controller and Assistant Controller is involved.
- Interaction with Regional Offices: support and coordination between Regional Office, other entities and Headquarters.
- Interaction with staff, cross-functional colleagues for escalated complex issues.
External: Interaction with our vendors, including third party providers of outsourced services.
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Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Mar 18 2019
Active Until:
Apr 18 2019
Hiring Organization:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
industry:
Nonprofit