Description
We are looking for a Senior Accountant to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing expense recording and reconciling to enable accurate, reliable, and timely reporting of financial statements and other financial data.
Responsibilities
- Prepare monthly journal entries in accordance with U.S. GAAP
- Monitor accounting for agreements for compliance with Mastercard's policies, procedures and related accounting literature
- Prepare balance sheet account reconciliations
- Adhere to the monthly and year-end close schedules and perform monthly expense reporting
- Provide insight into expense accounting activity through preparation of management reporting, variance analysis, and ad-hoc analysis
- Perform ongoing documentation and procedures maintenance as required
- Work to continuously improve expense processes; recognize opportunities for improvement and develop action plans to implement them
- Represent GBSC on cross-functional project teams in support of initiatives with impact to the expense accounting process, identify issues and develop recommendations for resolution, monitoring and reporting on progress
- Provide Expense customer service support to help resolve issues in a timely manner
- Drive front-line interaction with other GBSC teams and internal business units in support of identification and resolution of processing issues
Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- CA and/or MBA preferred
- Systems experience with Oracle, Reconciliation tools
- Prior related work experience, with expense accounting experience preferred
- Knowledge of expense accounting and management processes and systems
- Experience in shared services/internal service delivery role a plus
- Experience as a team member on project development/implementation teams a plus
- Solid understanding of generally accepted accounting principles and procedures
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
- Customer service skills (communication with customers and process partners)
- Excellent spreadsheet and word processing skills (Excel and Word preferred)