At Air Products, we reimagine what’s possible. By tapping into the motivation of our people and our collective experience, we create the ideas and innovations that drive us forward. When we come together – where every voice is heard and everyone knows they belong and matter – we create solutions that launch people into space, support lifesaving care in hospitals, and enable the construction of groundbreaking, world scale production facilities.
Reimagine What’s Possible
Purpose:
This position is responsible for all the inter-company transactions and activities, Internal Order Accounting (IO), across North America regions. This position needs to make sure that all activities, including inter-company transactions, month-end closing and reporting are booked and processed timely and accurately.
Principal Accountabilities:
To ensure daily operations on the Intercompany accounting, Internal Order accounting across the Asia region to be compliance with APCI policy and procedure and adherence to General Accepted Accounting Principle (GAAP), together with local statutory compliance requirements. This position has a lot of interaction with end users, Finance cross function teams to identify and solve issues as well.
Monitor all inter-company transactions and activities to ensure they are booked timely and accurately, including but not limited to
▪ Inter-company A/R billing and receivable
▪ Inter-company A/P booking and payments, including In House Cash payment
▪ Internal order and cost center assessment
▪ Identify and confirm billed and unbilled amount
Review monthly inter-company account reconciliations, oversee the team to solve the imbalance items coordinate for complicate outstanding issues, maintain the KPIs in a good shape.
Lead and monitor monthly intercompany payment process to ensure the intercompany balances are cleared timely with compliance with specific countries’ practice.
Monitor and ensure the correct inter-company markup billing processes are applied and make sure tax rates are appropriate for manual billing business.
Quarterly analysis of US GAAP finance report for intercompany and 10K69 tax report, Lead the team to support for country external audit when needed, support on transfer Pricing documentation.
Maintain compliance to US GAAP and AP Accounting Finance Standards and procedures. Ensure all related job aids and working procedures are in place and kept updated.
Provide process support with the goal of streamlining and simplifying accounting processes while ensuring accuracy and integrity of data.
Lead the team to solve the issues or handle the complex issue in Intercompany realm, identify the potential exposure and work on remediation plan.
Participate in continuous improvement on process and practice， identify the opportunity, lead or work on projects to achieve higher performance and deliver better results.
Other duties assigned.
Requirements:
Bachelor Degree in Finance or accounting. Qualified accountant will a plus.
More than 3 years working experiences in MNC or audit firm (preferability with 1-2 years similar working exposure, and proficiency in Intercompany Accounting, Internal Order accounting with broad and deep experience build on general accounting and application knowledge).
SAP system knowledge will be a plus.
Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, humble to learn and desire to coach, customer focus, change management, strategy mindset, and a proven ability to effectively analyze and solve the problems in the daily operation.
Be able to handle and priority important/urgent situations, can work under pressure.
Founded in 1940, Air Products is a world-leading industrial gases company and has a proud history of innovation, operational excellence, with an unwavering commitment to safety and environmental stewardship. Working together, we are taking our passion and diverse backgrounds forward to reimagine what’s possible and generate a cleaner future for our customers, our communities, and the world.
Skills Required
- Bachelor Degree in Finance or Accounting
- More than 3 years working experience in an MNC or audit firm
- 1-2 years similar intercompany/internal order accounting exposure
- Proficiency in Intercompany Accounting and Internal Order accounting
- Knowledge of US GAAP and applicable local statutory compliance
- Experience with intercompany A/R billing, A/P booking/payments, reconciliations, and payment processes
- Experience supporting external audits, tax reporting (10K69) and transfer pricing documentation
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, coaching mindset, customer focus, change management and problem solving
- Ability to prioritize, handle urgent situations, and work under pressure
- Qualified accountant credential (e.g., CPA) or equivalent
- SAP system knowledge
What We Do
Air Products (NYSE:APD) is a world-leading industrial gases company in operation for over 80 years focused on serving energy, environmental, and emerging markets. The Company has two growth pillars driven by sustainability. Air Products’ base business provides essential industrial gases, related equipment and applications expertise to customers in dozens of industries, including refining, chemicals, metals, electronics, manufacturing, and food. The Company also develops, engineers, builds, owns and operates some of the world's largest clean hydrogen projects supporting the transition to low- and zero-carbon energy in the heavy-duty transportation and industrial sectors. Additionally, Air Products is the world leader in the supply of liquefied natural gas process technology and equipment, and provides turbomachinery, membrane systems and cryogenic containers globally. The Company had fiscal 2023 sales of $12.6 billion from operations in approximately 50 countries and has a current market capitalization of about $65 billion. Approximately 23,000 passionate, talented and committed employees from diverse backgrounds are driven by Air Products’ higher purpose to create innovative solutions that benefit the environment, enhance sustainability and reimagine what's possible to address the challenges facing customers, communities, and the world.
