Senior Accountant, Consolidations

JOB DESCRIPTION
The Senior Accountant, Consolidations is highly visible role focused on monthly global close, consolidation and financial reporting. You will work cross functionally with accounting, FP&A, and tax/treasury teams to improve the reporting, controls and processes for consolidated financial data. This role will be involved in numerous key projects to transform the consolidation and reporting function, such as intercompany controls/process improvements, M&A integration, group restructurings and systems enhancements.
Hybrid on-site (3) days a week in our Northbrook or Chicago, IL office
RESPONSIBILITIES

• Prepare, examine, and analyze accounting records, financial statements, and other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
• Collaborate across global organization to develop financial information and analysis supporting internal and external reporting needs.
• Create and maintain reports in Oracle Consolidations (FCCS) module.
• Review intercompany balances and reconciliations, and assist with improving intercompany controls and processes.
• Prepare topside journal entries, intercompany eliminations, and investment eliminations.
• Assist in key projects which vary based on business transactions and priorities (e.g., acquisitions & divestitures and internal reorganizations)
• Support new business initiatives, system integrations, and other major change management impacting financial statements and related systems. Collaborate cross functionally as needed on consolidation and financial reporting matters.
• Represent UL Solutions interests to internal and external parties through preparation of key deliverables - e.g., FP&A/tax/treasury partnership, sponsors, lenders, tax authorities, auditors, and other stakeholders.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or business, CPA strongly preferred
• At least 3-4 years of accounting experience focused on financial reporting, consolidations, or technical accounting.
• Experience at a large, global company with multiple legal entities and a complex consolidation structure is desirable.
• Experience applying GAAP knowledge
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: index/match, pivot tables, multiple if statements).
• Strong analytical skills
• Proven ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Able to work with large amounts of data.
• Experience at a public company with SEC reporting requirements (or public accounting experiences with listed clients) strongly preferred
• Experience with SOX controls strongly preferred
• Experience working with a consolidation system (Oracle FCCS, BPC, Oracle HFM, OneStream) is desirable; familiarity with Hyperion Essbase reporting is a plus.
• Experience with Oracle ERP or other large ERP platform such as SAP is preferred.
• Experience applying advanced knowledge level of accounting practices, controls, and systems.
• Experience with Microsoft Power BI is desirable.
• Experience working on projects and cross-functional collaboration.

What you'll experience working at UL:

• Mission: For UL Solutions, corporate and social responsibility isn't new. Making the world a safer, more secure and sustainable place has been our business model for the last 130 years and is deeply engrained in everything we do.
• People: Ask any UL Solutions employee what they love most about working here, and you'll almost always hear, "the people." Going beyond what is possible is the standard at UL Solutions. We're able to deliver the best because we employ the best.
• Interesting work: Every day is different for us here as we eagerly anticipate the next innovation that our customers' create. We're inspired to take on the challenge that will transform how people live, work and play. And as a global company, in many roles, you will get international experience working with colleagues around the world.
• Grow & achieve: We learn, work and grow together with targeted development, reward and recognition programs as well as our very own UL University that offers extensive training programs for employees at all stages, including a technical training track for applicable roles.
• Total Rewards: All employees at UL Solutions are eligible for bonus compensation. UL Solutions offers a generous 401k matching structure of up to 5% of eligible pay. Additionally, we invest an additional 4% into your retirement saving fund after your first year of continuous employment. We provide Healthcare Reimbursement Accounts and Health Savings Accounts that UL Solutions contributes to twice per year! Depending on your role, you can work with your manager on flexible working arrangements. We also provide employees with paid time off including vacation, holiday, sick and volunteer time off.

Learn More:
Working at UL Solutions is an exciting journey that twists and turns daily. We thrive in the twists and revel in the turns. This is our every day. This is our normal.
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ABOUT US
A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers' product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers' products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.