Description
We are seeking a Senior Accountant-2 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 organisational skills
- Customer service skills (communication with customers and process partners)
- Excellent spreadsheet and word processing skills (Excel and Word preferred)