Senior Accounting Specialist

In this role you will perform the day-to-day finance activities within the  finance team. Maintaining relationships with the served sites, while performing the daily financial and accounting business processes  with a focus on standardization whilst delivering excellent customer service. Provide timely and professional services, ensuring that the monthly US GAAP financials for the country are prepared accurately and on time. Drive process improvements and provide training and development to others. Support the Senior Regional Accountants to maintain and develop the  processes and services.

Through this role we will give you the opportunity to test your skills in a dynamic environment, to learn from our experienced team and grow within our organization.

Are you eager to learn, well-organized and driven for result? Then join our team in Cluj-Napoca!

In this role you will:

Financial business partnering
•Ensure financial integrity of the Financial Statements, performing all tasks as set out in the SLA master document including;
•Part of a team responsible for Month End closing to a strict timetable for Financials into HFM (Reporting system). Reporting scope includes P&L, Balance sheet, TWC metrics, Headcount and other statistical requirements.
•Perform monthly, quarterly and annual financial statement variance analysis.
•Provide financial reports to finance management (. account analysis, balance sheet and income statement flux analysis, reconciliations, ad hoc analysis, etc.).

Balance Sheet
•Perform periodic financial close activities including journal entry preparation and account reconciliations including cash, prepaid expenses, fixed assets, and accrued expenses among others.
•Ownership of the balance sheet control reconciliations including investigation of reconciling items to clear in a timely manner.
•Regular financial & balance sheet reviews in conjunction with the Senior Regional accountant and Site management team.
•Manage, review and execute the end-to-end cash disbursements process. 

 

P&L
•Perform and Analyze business reports for Bookings, Sales and backlog.
•Preparation of daily and period flash reports.
•Monthly reconciliations
•Product group, KOB and End destination Reporting.
•Perform monthly cost centre reporting including variation analysis (SG&A and CGS).
•Ensure high quality deliverables are provided to all relevant stakeholders within the agreed timescales.
•Deliver timely, comprehensive and quality management reporting including metrics.
•Maintain compliance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and internal CP&P.
•Researches and investigates accounting issues as required.
•Recommends and implements solutions.
•Part of a team responsible for Business Intelligence and Analytics:
•Create reports and predictive financial models to enable effective decision making.
•Build and manage dashboards and metrics to identify key trends, risks and opportunities.
•With thorough data analysis, provide insightful and actionable metrics and recommendations on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
•Works with the Integration team on the onboarding process to integrate new sites into a new group.
•Engagement with corporate/internal and external auditors for all local and Europe wide engagements.

Knowledge Management and training
•Provide training within the team. Supervise the work of and develop the  colleagues both locally and remotely.
•Contributes on the knowledge management  and establishes standards and quality in the overall documentation efforts.
•Establishes a culture of learning and continues development and collaborates with operational teams.
•Contributes that training materials are defined, e-learning trainings are developed, an onboarding program is established and maintained.

Continuous improvement
•Support development of streamlined processes through automation or other efficiency gaining ways.
•Analyze Key Performance Indicators data, identify adverse trends and communicate these succinctly to management. Work closely with the regional teams and MSSC to identify and address root causes.
•Works with  Systems accounting team as needed to implement process design changes or system updates.

Various
•Assist with finance projects including integrations as and when required.
•Occasional weekend/public holiday working is a requirement of the role.
•Willingness to travel (up to 5-10% of role).
•Works with Systems accounting team as needed to implement process design changes or system updates.

For this role you will need:
•Degree in Business or related field;
•Three years of related experience with two years handling International customers;
•Fluency to speak, read and write in French and English;
•Good Interpersonal /Communication skills;
•Team Player/ Good People Management skills;
•Ability to influence all levels of staff.

 
Who you are:
You strive for improvement in all aspects and you are guided by metrics, feedback and a disciplined management process. You see yourself committed to a safety and quality culture.


Our Offer to You:
Being part of Emerson as a Regional Accountant, you will be working at the heart of our business. This means that the skills and business insight gained can serve as an invaluable foundation toward developing your career within our global organization. We offer plentiful opportunities for advancement and support this through our formal personal development planning process.
Our on-boarding program uses a blended learning approach to get you up and running as quickly as possible. You benefit from Emerson certified trainers with extensive knowledge of our products and applications.
Our global Women in Stem initiative gives you the opportunity to connect with local peers that share the same interest, to promote the diversity & inclusion and early STEM education and to benefit from professional development to access leadership opportunities. Also, we are committed to maintaining a partnership with the Society of Women Engineers (SWE).