Senior Associate Specialist, General Ledger

• Job Scope includes:

The GL Reconciliations SME is responsible and accountable for review and approve the reconciliation and provide timely guidance on reconciliation & journal postings issues to GL team.  This position is responsible for the financial integrity and reliability of account balance in SAP.  The candidate will work on a team with similar GL reconcilers.  The candidate will interact with Local Finance, Business Controllers, Business Analysts, and other support networks.  This position will require an end-user exposure of SAP FI module.  In addition, the person in this role will perform the activity tracking & monitoring responsibilities, and provide direction to GL team.

Job Description:

Impact on the Business & Team work

• Working with team and customer to ensure delivery as per agreed timelines.
• Responsible and accountable for review and approve the reconciliation
• Provide critical oversight that reconciliations are being performed correctly and Celanese account reconciliation policy is being adhered to
• Require timely intervention into account problems and issues so proper resolution can be obtained to ensure financial statement misstatements are avoided
• Provide guidance and training to Account Reconcilers
• Ultimate accountability for timeliness, correctness, and completeness of account reconciliations.
• Ensure journal postings are done after prior approvals as required by SOX and Celanese JEV policy
• Review journal postings done by GL team on a sample basis to check whether the postings are complied with Celanese JEV policy.

Customers / Stakeholders

• Ensure support is provided as per requirement from onshore counterparts related to GL accounting and reconciliations.
• Attend all business calls and meetings and drive issue resolution as required.
• Respond to queries from senior group level management as appropriate
• Provides management and financial statement users with relevant, comparable, and accurate data on which to base decisions. 
• Analyzes data and translates into meaningful information.
• Serve as a resource for Business Controllers, Business Analysts, Plant Accountants, Corporate Accounting, Tax, and Treasury with GL related issues, questions and inquiries

Teamwork

• Drive teams to ensure SLA’s adhered or exceeded in line with onshore requirements
• Ensure all team members are aware of process updates
• Works with GL reconcilers to train them on systems, software, policies and procedures

Operational Effectiveness & Control

• Ensure proactive controls in place to highlight issues before they are picked up by business.
• Adheres to Celanese Internal control policies and procedures, including established SOX compliance processes.
• Develop an in-depth knowledge of business processes in order to support GL accounting and reconciliations.

Principal Accountabilities: Key activities

• Ensure 100% SLA delivery.
• Ensure the basic process documentation is completed for all the activities.
• Have 100% backups created, to operate during any contingent events. 

• MBA or CMA or CA or CPA  with minimum 4 – 6 years of experience
• Ability to develop effective working relationships with business partners/customers
• An excellent attention to detail.
• Very good working knowledge of Microsoft Office is essential & PPTs.
• Is expected to have strong technical understanding of accounting principles and demonstrated competence in their application.
• Ability in Accounting , Closing and/or Business Reporting
• Should have demonstrated the ability of driving result