Statutory Reporting Team Lead

Role & responsibilities

• Prepare and reconcile US GAAP to statutory financials.
• Prepare and reconcile statutory financials to filed tax return.
• Seek input and sign off from Local finance, Audit and Tax.
• Prepare data packs & reconciliation for local tax compliance
• Support of TP / tax accounting/ tax compliance audits for tax and financial audits.
• Oversee preparation of audit-ready project files.
• Contribute to the development of SOPs/desktop procedures & keep them up to date.
• Contribute to improvements of models, templates, automation tools, data mining tools.
• Ensure tight connection of data used for tax/statutory accounting/ transfer pricing.
• Manage priorities and time lines and adjust to shifting priorities. Develop relationships with the geozones.
• Understands, reviews, implements and complies with Sarbanes Oxley requirements as defined in the risk control matrix.

Required Skills:

• 3 to 8 years of relevant experience in statutory audit, US GAAP, IFRS, Finance Shared Services Organization managing Statutory Accounting.
• Qualification- CA (2-4 yrs), MBA finance (5+ yrs), CMA (5+ yrs),
• Experience working in Statutory Accounting with the ability to clearly communicate information in an easy to understand manner.
• Experience leading in a matrices environment.
• Clear thinking / problem solving to successfully lead cross-functional projects/process improvement within operations/finance function involving process improvement and able to quickly grasp new ideas.
• Experience with financial systems / applications and strong with MS office applications.
• Accepting and adhering to high moral, ethical, and personal values in decisions, communications, actions and when dealing with others.
• College degree with accounting as part of the courses taken.
• Strong analytical skills to identify opportunities to improve processes.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Computer skills that include creating charts and graphs that can be used to explain or define presentations.
• Change Management driver, ensuring the process is followed.
• Customer Service focused.

Preferred Skills:

• CPA or similar.
• Good to have experience on Tax.
• Previous international experience preferably gained in the region.
• JDE / ERP or Hyperion experience.
• Prior experience with an energy service company