Accountant

Job Details: Job Description: The Role and Impact In this role, you will partner across Finance to ensure high-quality accounting, controllership, and financial reporting for treasury-related activities worldwide. The team supports accurate US GAAP-compliant accounting, strong internal controls, and timely reporting for debt, equity, investments, capital markets transactions, treasury operations, and related financing activities. This organization works closely with Corporate Treasury, Accounting Policy, External Reporting, Tax, Legal, Corporate Planning, Investor Relations, shared service teams, and business finance teams to ensure financing and capital structure activities are appropriately reflected in the financial statements and supported by scalable, well-controlled processes. This role is responsible for supporting the accounting, reporting, controllership, and process execution for debt and equity-related activities. This role focuses on the accounting and operational support associated with debt issuances and repayments, interest and fee accounting, capital structure transactions, equity-related accounting entries, share activity support, close processes, reconciliations, and financial reporting deliverables. This role partners closely with Corporate Treasury, Accounting Policy, External Reporting, Tax, Legal, Corporate Planning, Investor Relations, system teams, shared services, and auditors to ensure debt and equity accounting is accurate, timely, compliant, and supported by strong internal controls. Key Responsibilities : • Support the accounting and reporting for debt-related transactions, including borrowings, repayments, amortization of discounts and issuance costs, accrued interest, and related balance sheet and income statement activity. • Prepare and maintain accounting schedules, journal entries, reconciliations, and roll forwards related to short-term and long-term debt instruments. • Assist with accounting analyses associated with new debt issuances, debt modifications, extinguishments, refinancing transactions, and other financing arrangements. • Support period-end accounting for interest expense, debt fees, amortization, and debt-related accruals. • Help ensure accounting outcomes are recorded accurately and timely in accordance with US GAAP, company policy, and internal treasury accounting procedures. • Support the accounting and reporting for equity-related transactions, including share issuances, repurchases, equity capital activity, and other capital structure changes. • Prepare journal entries, reconciliations, and supporting schedules related to equity accounts, treasury stock activity, additional paid-in capital, and other shareholders' equity balances. • Assist with accounting analyses for equity transactions, legal entity capital movements, and other corporate finance activities affecting equity balances. • Support the maintenance of schedules and workpapers tied to equity roll forwards, share activity, and related reporting requirements. • Help ensure equity accounting is complete, accurate, and appropriately reflected in the general ledger and financial statements. • Support monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities related to debt and equity accounting. • Prepare account reconciliations, variance analyses, reporting schedules, and supporting workpapers tied to debt and equity balances. • Execute and maintain strong internal controls over debt and equity accounting processes, including reconciliations, review procedures, and supporting documentation. • Support SOX compliance, control testing, audit requests, walkthroughs, and remediation follow-up related to financing and capital structure accounting processes. • Maintain desktop procedures, standard work, and process documentation to ensure consistency, auditability, and compliance. • Work closely with Corporate Treasury, Accounting Policy, External Reporting, Tax, Legal, Corporate Planning, Investor Relations, shared service partners, and auditors to support accurate accounting and reporting outcomes. • Help translate financing transactions and capital structure activities into appropriate accounting and disclosure treatment. • Support issue resolution by coordinating across stakeholders to address process gaps, data issues, timing differences, and reporting questions. • Support analysis of debt balances, interest expense, financing costs, equity movements, and capital structure impacts to help explain period-over-period changes. • Assist with forecast support related to treasury accounting impacts, financing activity, and equity-related accounting outcomes. • Prepare management reporting and analytical summaries for finance and treasury stakeholders as needed. • Help provide insight into accounting drivers, process risks, and opportunities for improved visibility into debt and equity-related results. • Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and modernize treasury accounting processes related to debt and equity accounting. • Use AI and digital tools to improve the efficiency, quality, and scalability of recurring activities such as reconciliations, variance analysis, journal entry support, documentation management, and reporting preparation. Qualifications: Minimum Qualifications : • Bachelor's degree in Accountancy or Masters Degree. • Proficiency in accounting principles and standards, including IFRS and US GAAP. • Demonstrated expertise in financial systems such as SAP S4, SQL querying, and Power BI. • Knowledge of SOX compliance and cost accounting policies. • At least 3 years of relevant experience in a global organization, including experience in treasury accounting, corporate accounting, controllership, financial reporting, or close support. • Certification in accounting (ACCA, CPA, ICAEW, MICPA, or equivalent) is highly desirable. • Experience with monthly, quarterly, or annual close activities, reconciliations, journal entries, and financial…