Senior Statutory Accountant

Job Title

Senior Statutory Accountant

Job Description Summary

Supporting the EMEA GOS Financial Controller in the successful delivery of legal entity Controllership, ensuring compliance with global policy.
This role involves partnering with both internal and external stakeholders, including outsourced service providers and consultants. The role requires a driven individual to deliver on the regular reporting requirements for local GAAP compliance, highly motivated and engaged to deliver timely and accurate financial information.
The successful candidate will be primarily tasked with supporting the group and statutory audit processes for EMEA entities and the preparation and review of the statutory financial statements for these EMEA entities.

Job Description

Core responsibilities:

·         Manage the statutory audit processes, including co-ordination between the auditors, outsourced providers in India (FSC), the business and retained finance across the clusters as the key C&W contact for external Auditor

·         Improve process to minimise the cost of SFS production, review and audit including optimisation of system functionality and automation and ensuring the best use of the FSC.

·         Responsible for managing on-time delivery and quality of overseas branch final reconciled Trial Balances and supporting documentation.

·         Pro-actively manage external Auditor, ensuring that all PBC deliverables are delivered on time. 

·         Manage responses audit queries and findings.

·         Support CIT (Corporation Tax) computation process that is owned by the in-house Tax department.

·         Support legal entity rationalisation projects, providing technical accounting guidance as required.

·         Provide intercompany balance confirmations to support local overseas audit requirements.

·         Create efficiencies through continuous improvement of processes.

·         Assist with ad-hoc projects and tasks as they arise

 

 

 

 

INCO: “Cushman & Wakefield”