Accounting Supervisor

Role summary:

The Accounting Supervisor is a responsible role that oversees and manages a team of accountants, ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of financial records and reports. This position requires strong leadership, financial expertise, and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities:

People management

• Supervise the day to day work of the team including invoice processing, payment, accounting, collections, month end closing processes and account reconciliations under US-GAAP as applicable for the team led
• Initiate resource needs based on appropriate approvals
• Actively participate in recruitment and selection processes and employer branding
• Onboarding of new joiners and support their integration into the team and facilitate process induction
• Help develop an environment and culture that supports the attraction and retention of quality talent
• Support their team members to develop clear ownership and understanding of the processes and metrics necessary to continue financial activity including KPIs and other business metrics
• Proactively organize employee engagement activities and reward top talent
• Manages talent process for own team: Performance management, talent assessment, succession planning and development plan creation and follow-up
• Mentor and continuous coaching for team members
• Manage personnel-related issues within team
• Responsible for balancing team workload and ensuring month-end deadlines and other KPI targets are met for the team
• Create appropriate backup structure and cross-training to ensure continuous service levels
• Act as a role model for team and represent Flowserve values in daily behaviors, activities, and decisions

Process

• Build a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement
• Coordinate internal and external audit request
• In cooperation with process Subject Matter Expert and other teams in the BSC, supervise own team to transition responsibilities from sites into the BSC
• Ensure up-to-date process documentation, updating, maintaining process workflows
• Knowledge management, updating knowledge base for own team
• Work cross functionally to ensure BSC processes work within the assigned area of responsibility

Quality and legal compliance and controls

• Forecast and monitor the team’s workload and activities, holiday, overtime, etc. while ensuring legal compliance and quality control
• Implement, and maintain effective internal controls for own area
• Report activities of the team to stakeholders through regular and ad hoc reporting
• Monitor appropriate accesses for all team members in line with SOX, other legal and Flowserve process requirements
• Ensure compliance with FLS policies, US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) as defined by FLS, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and local statutory laws and regulations and that business is conducted within FLS ethical code of business conduct.
• Demonstrate thorough understanding of financial controls for local and SOX requirements.
• Provide advice as needed and ensure governance and internal control standards are embedded in the end to end processes and operations.

Stakeholder management

• Build partnerships with stakeholders internal and external to own team.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure accurate and controlled financial statements for own domain.
• Maintain a functional and healthy relationship with site leadership, procurement, finance, and other stakeholders based on need of cooperation.

Qualifications and skills:

• Bachelor's Degree in accounting for GL Supervisor roles required or economic/business studies (for all Finance Supervisor roles) preferred, Master's Degree is a plus
• Chartered Accountant, CPA or equivalent preferred (for GL Supervisor roles)
• 5+ years’ experience is required, (2+ years in a Shared Service center)
• US GAAP or IFRS knowledge required (for GL Supervisor roles) or preferred (for all other Finance Supervisor roles) based on team led
• Demonstrated ability to motivate and develop people
• Excellent verbal and written communication and negotiation skills in English
• Strong drive for action and proactivity in recognizing and resolving issues
• Confident user of MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships with stakeholders
• Strong ability for action to proactively recognize and resolve issues
• Ability to cope with and drive process changes
• Continuous improvement mindset (LEAN Six Sigma is an advantage)