Role summary:
The Accounting Supervisor is a responsible role that oversees and manages a team of accountants, ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of financial records and reports. This position requires strong leadership, financial expertise, and mentoring skills.
Responsibilities:
People management
- Supervise the day to day work of the team including invoice processing, payment, accounting, collections, month end closing processes and account reconciliations under US-GAAP as applicable for the team led
- Initiate resource needs based on appropriate approvals
- Actively participate in recruitment and selection processes and employer branding
- Onboarding of new joiners and support their integration into the team and facilitate process induction
- Help develop an environment and culture that supports the attraction and retention of quality talent
- Support their team members to develop clear ownership and understanding of the processes and metrics necessary to continue financial activity including KPIs and other business metrics
- Proactively organize employee engagement activities and reward top talent
- Manages talent process for own team: Performance management, talent assessment, succession planning and development plan creation and follow-up
- Mentor and continuous coaching for team members
- Manage personnel-related issues within team
- Responsible for balancing team workload and ensuring month-end deadlines and other KPI targets are met for the team
- Create appropriate backup structure and cross-training to ensure continuous service levels
- Act as a role model for team and represent Flowserve values in daily behaviors, activities, and decisions
Process
- Build a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement
- Coordinate internal and external audit request
- In cooperation with process Subject Matter Expert and other teams in the BSC, supervise own team to transition responsibilities from sites into the BSC
- Ensure up-to-date process documentation, updating, maintaining process workflows
- Knowledge management, updating knowledge base for own team
- Work cross functionally to ensure BSC processes work within the assigned area of responsibility
Quality and legal compliance and controls
- Forecast and monitor the team’s workload and activities, holiday, overtime, etc. while ensuring legal compliance and quality control
- Implement, and maintain effective internal controls for own area
- Report activities of the team to stakeholders through regular and ad hoc reporting
- Monitor appropriate accesses for all team members in line with SOX, other legal and Flowserve process requirements
- Ensure compliance with FLS policies, US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) as defined by FLS, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and local statutory laws and regulations and that business is conducted within FLS ethical code of business conduct.
- Demonstrate thorough understanding of financial controls for local and SOX requirements.
- Provide advice as needed and ensure governance and internal control standards are embedded in the end to end processes and operations.
Stakeholder management
- Build partnerships with stakeholders internal and external to own team.
- Work with stakeholders to ensure accurate and controlled financial statements for own domain.
- Maintain a functional and healthy relationship with site leadership, procurement, finance, and other stakeholders based on need of cooperation.
Qualifications and skills:
- Bachelor's Degree in accounting for GL Supervisor roles required or economic/business studies (for all Finance Supervisor roles) preferred, Master's Degree is a plus
- Chartered Accountant, CPA or equivalent preferred (for GL Supervisor roles)
- 5+ years’ experience is required, (2+ years in a Shared Service center)
- US GAAP or IFRS knowledge required (for GL Supervisor roles) or preferred (for all other Finance Supervisor roles) based on team led
- Demonstrated ability to motivate and develop people
- Excellent verbal and written communication and negotiation skills in English
- Strong drive for action and proactivity in recognizing and resolving issues
- Confident user of MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships with stakeholders
- Strong ability for action to proactively recognize and resolve issues
- Ability to cope with and drive process changes
- Continuous improvement mindset (LEAN Six Sigma is an advantage)