**Job Capsule**:
Prepares balance sheets, profit, loss statements and other financial reports.
Analyzing trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, obligations incurred to predict future revenues and expenses.
Reports organization's finances to management and offers suggestions about resource utilization, tax strategies and assumptions underlying budget forecasts.
Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices and procedures.
Relies on experience, judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
Performs a variety of complicated tasks.
**Job Duties/Roles**:
The following duties and responsibilities may vary depending on assigned Hemisphere.
- Prepare balance sheet account reconciliations monthly, quarterly or annually, varies by account.
- Prepare monthly bank reconciliations for multi currencies bank accounts.
- Research and work with AP/AR to solve the pending items of the reconciliations monthly, varies by account.
- Prepare journals for payroll, depreciation and non-reoccurring entries.
- Assist in the preparation of the year-end audit schedules.
- Provide assistance/guidance to the junior accounting staff.
- Perform monthly GL close functions.
- Assist with gathering information for field work during Statutory audits.
- Perform Consolidated Ledger Revaluation and effects adjustments in the automatic accounting system.
- Assist in budget development process.
- Assist in preparation work for field audits and answer auditors' queries on statutory and management accounts.
- Special projects as assigned by Finance Director or Manager.
**Qualifications**:
**Knowledge**, Skills and Abilities Required (KSAR)**:
- Effective reporting skills so that complicated financial information can be presented in a user-friendly format.
- Thorough knowledge of current business and accounting software.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Willingness and flexibility to work extra hours as required.
- Working knowledge of the ABS Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental Management System.
**Minimum** years of Experience**:
Minimum of 5 years experience
**Required**/Preferred Education** Requirements**:
Bachelor's degree or recognized equivalent in Accounting
**Required/Preferred Professional Requirements**:
CPA preferred
**Country Requirements**:
None
**Reporting Relationships**:
**Reports directly to a Manager or Director level position or higher**.
**Direct Reports**:
None
**Disclaimer Clause**:
This job description is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an all-inclusive list of responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with the job of the incumbent.
It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the principal job elements essential for making a fair decision regarding the pay structure of the job.
**Working Conditions**:
Work is primarily sedentary; exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects