The Role
The Corporate Accounting Specialist performs accounting tasks, prepares financial disclosures, maintains internal controls, and ensures compliance with accounting standards.
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Job Summary & Responsibilities
This position is responsible for:
- Performing accounting activities including analyzing/documenting transactions, recording journal entries, preparing reconciliations, and performing variance analyses.
- Supporting the preparation of financial statement disclosures for group and/or statutory reporting.
- Building and maintaining working relationships with operating departments (both globally and within North America), auditors and other functions.
- Working on cross-functional teams to facilitate proper implementation of technical transactions and recommending proper accounting treatment on unique transactions and/or new pronouncements.
- Serving as a reference point for issue resolution.
- Establishing and maintaining internal control procedures to ensure compliance with Sarbanes Oxley.
- Ensuring accounting estimates are properly supported, accurate and complete.
- Experience with various technical accounting concepts (eg., foreign exchange transactions, derivatives, hedging transactions, impairment assessments and actuarially-determined provisions).
- Driving continuous improvement and process initiatives throughout area of responsibility.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or other related study
- Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) or Chartered Accountant (CA)
- 5+ years of accounting experience with strong knowledge of US GAAP and/or IFRS accounting principles
- Experience with consolidation system applications and concepts
- Strong leadership and problem solving skills with a bias for action and issue resolution
Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge of IFRS accounting principles
- Experience with SAP, HFM, OneStream
- Experience within the global automotive industry
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) or Chartered Accountant (CA)
- 5+ years of accounting experience
- Strong knowledge of US GAAP and/or IFRS
- Experience with consolidation system applications
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The Company
What We Do
Our storied and iconic brands embody the passion of their visionary founders and today’s customers in their innovative products and services: they include Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Citroën, Dodge, DS Automobiles, Fiat, Jeep®, Lancia, Maserati, Opel, Peugeot, Ram, Vauxhall and mobility brands Free2move and Leasys. Powered by our diversity, we lead the way the world moves – aspiring to become the greatest sustainable mobility tech company, not the biggest, while creating added value for all stakeholders as well as the communities in which we operate.
