Title:  Senior Accountant, Fixed Assets

Job Summary

Reporting to, and working closely with, the Global Fixed Assets Senior Manager, in this role you will be responsible for regional support in this area within the Global Fixed Asset Team under GFS. You will play a pivotal role in West’s capital expenditure process, being accountable for the performance and output of various plants within the global team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Supporting the Global Fixed Asset Senior Manager in all aspects of the function
• Accounting for CIP balances through interaction with senior project managers
• Executing various close activities through period-end closings within company deadlines while remaining compliant to West, SOX, GAAP policies and regulations
• Collaborating with a broad range of stakeholders including local market FP&A, Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, Senior management, and internal/external auditors.
• Actively oversee the review and management of the AUC/CIP balances to ensure accurate and SOX compliant reporting and accounting.
• Ensuring the month-end account reconciliation process is completed in a timely and accurate fashion with adequate supporting documentation.
• Drive global process improvements to standardize & harmonize processes and achieve superior levels of efficiency realizing reduced cost benefits to West.
• Lead in the delivery of internal and external reporting of Fixed Asset balances
• Represent the GFS organization on various projects and systems initiatives liaising closely with the Consolidations team, Technical Accounting and Group reporting to ensure overall consistency of process.
• Ensure the SOX RCM is accurate and reflects all Fixed Asset processes
• Supporting the Statutory reporting process through testing and insight into all asset related balances on the global balance sheet
• Other duties as assigned

Additional Responsibilities

Control environment:

• Ensure that company financial records are maintained in compliance with company policies and US GAAP and SEC reporting requirements
• Accountable for ensuring that company policies and procedures (internal controls) are implemented to provide reasonable assurance that the company assets are protected
• Support the Sarbanes Oxley activities relative to internal controls documentation and testing and segregation of duties
• Liaise with internal and external auditors 

Technology and service:

• Report agreed key performance indicators
• Support deployment of SAP S/4 HANA and other systems 
• Paricipate in building reports using PowerBi and working closely with Transformation and D&T teams.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance or equivalent experience required

Work Experience

• Minimum 5 years industry experience required 
• Multinational manufacturing experience preferred 

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Public Accounting background
• Previous Shared Service Centre with multinational publicly quoted company experience
• Working knowledge of US GAAP
• Proficient in SAP or similar ERP
• Proficient in MS Office applications
• Experience of BI tools an advantage
• Demonstrated ability to form, lead and develop high-performing teams
• Excellent communication and leadership skills i.e. ability to communicate and work effectively with a wide range of region, division and corporate functions
• Able to manage multiple priorities effectively, while managing ambiguity and adapting to changing business needs and priorities
• Project management, meeting facilitation, written/oral communication and presentation skills

License and Certifications

• Qualified accountant i.e. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CPA preferred 

Additional Requirements

• Position operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. May need to stand or sit for extended periods of time
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger and reach with hands and arms
• Use written and oral communication skills
• Read and interpret data, information and documents
• Must maintain the ability to work well with others in a variety of situations
• Must be able to multi-task, work under time constraints, tight deadlines, problem solve, and prioritize
• Ability to make work independently and sound decision making
• Observe and interpret situations, analyze and solve problems
• Able to be aware of all relevant SOPs as per Company policy as they are related to the position covered by this Job Description #LI-JJ1 #LI-HYBRID

Travel Requirements

Physical Requirements

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