The Senior Corporate Accountant supports Asia finance group in a key finance role and is responsible for finance process improvements through various digitalization and automation tools to enable overall finance team efficiency and faster financial data flows to support with better business decisions. Additionally, this role assists with our finance community training culture, as well as ad-hoc finance operational excellence projects.
ResponsibilitiesEssential Duties & Responsibilities
- Understand core finance processes and data logics, participate in financial data-flow and process analysis to identify repetitive tasks suitable for automation.
- Gather and analyze business requirements from various finance functions to develop and apply emerging technologies to support finance process optimization and automation, collaborate with IT resources to design practical implementation solutions, drive projects completion and enhancements for ongoing business requirements, as well as assisting in establishing standardized processes and operating procedures.
- Support data integration efforts by connecting business and finance users, enabling the automated, accurate, and seamless flow of data across platforms and develop dashboards that transform complex financial information into clear visual insights, providing management with intuitive and actionable decision support.
- Rotate with accounting and costing processes to drive cost reduction and operational efficiencies initiatives.
- Performs other special projects as needed.
Scope
This role faces several key customers as part of both daily responsibilities and as part of project teams, including Manufacturing Finance, Business Unit Finance, Corporate Analytical Finance and IT group.
Qualifications
Required Education:
- Bachelors-Accounting or equiv exp
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (eg. Excel, Powerpoint).
- Good grasp of automation and data-visualization tools (eg. VBA, SQL, Power BI, RPA).
- Familiar with finance business processes.
- Prior experience with SAP system knowledge preferred.
- Personal Skills - Stress Management
Intermediate
- Personal Skills - Attention to Detail
Intermediate
- Personal Skills - Self Motivated
Intermediate
- Personal Skills - Analytical Skills
Intermediate
- Personal Skills - Time/Priority Management
Intermediate
- Personal Skills - Work both Independently and on a Team
Intermediate
Required Length & Type of Experience:
- At least 3 years working experience in Accounting, IT with finance
- Experience in a finance digital-transformation role within a Big Four consulting firm is a Plus.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or equivalent experience
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel and PowerPoint
- Knowledge of automation and data visualization tools, including VBA, SQL, Power BI, or RPA
- Familiarity with finance business processes
- At least 3 years of experience in accounting or IT with finance
- SAP system knowledge
- Finance digital transformation experience within a Big Four consulting firm
Avient Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with immediate vesting and a company match is part of the package, and company filings confirm employer-supported retirement plans. This foundation positions retirement benefits as a meaningful element of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off includes vacation and dedicated hours for community service, with many roles offering eligibility from Day One. The offering spans vacation, sick time, holidays, and volunteer time, providing breadth beyond basic leave.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Performance-based bonuses and formal recognition programs complement base pay, and some manufacturing postings describe guaranteed bi-annual bonuses. Overtime pay availability in hourly roles can materially lift take-home earnings.
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What We Do
Welcome to a new kind of materials company. This is a time where the world craves a more sustainable planet, unprecedented innovation and economic growth. This is a time where people seek strong relationships, diverse perspectives and an opportunity to accept the most pressing challenges of today. It’s in this spirit, that these two complementary businesses have been joined into one. Avient promises to honor the legacies of its past organizations as it seeks to build a world-class sustainable organization – together – that creates value for all stakeholders. Together, Avient will help customers to build a better world with an expanded portfolio of polymer colorant and additive solutions. In addition, all customers will benefit from: • expanded resources, services, development, and technical support • faster and more comprehensive innovation • a combined base of highly skilled R&D teams • a broader, best-in-class solution portfolio • improved geographic reach • enhanced supply security
