Senior Finance Specialist

This role is responsible for performing the role of entity accountant for subsidiaries of Dupont.  As entity accountant for a subsidiary, the analyst will have responsibilities for overall data integrity of items such as the subsidiary’s financial statements, account reconciliation, income statement forecasting, and other related support required by Country Controllers.

Core Responsibilities:-

• Ensure the integrity of the financial statements for the legal entity under their responsibility. This is achieved by defining accounting procedures in compliance with local accounting policies, running SAP reports required to review Income Statement, Balance Sheets and Trial Balances, performing account reconciliations, analyzing trends and completing fluctuation analysis, comparing USGAAP and local books and analyzing differences, follow-up on unusual items, reviewing and approving significant or unusual accounting entries, ensure corrections required are correctly recorded, etc.
• Perform account reconciliations of the accounts under their ownership and review and approve the account reconciliations performed by the members of their team. In addition, the Entity accountant will periodically request to see the reconciliations prepared by other Finance departments.
• Act as focal point for external financial and statutory filings necessary to meet internal auditing and governmental requirements, in compliance with USGAAP and local accounting principles and with various laws and official requirements. Incomplete or missing data can cause serious consequences.
• Ensure timely support for the external audit of the Financial Statements by acting as focal point for communications with the external auditors, ensuring information required by the auditors is provided on time, participating in review meetings, answering audit comments, etc.
• Responsible for producing the Income Statement Forecast (ISF) at a legal entity level. This is achieved by coordinating the efforts of the different processes and businesses required to meet the Income Statement Forecast requirements. The ISF is a key element for Tax to estimate the corporate tax rate and tax provision and for Treasury to plan cash flow and dividend distributions.
• Coordinate the completion of Regional year-end schedule packages for Corporate Controllers required to comply with information to be reported to the Security Exchange Commission.
• Coordinate the Financial and Statutory requirements related to compliance with SOX rules and Internal Control self-assessments.
• Operational Knowledge on AP / AR / Fixed Assets / Inventory.
• Must be able to identify root causes of issues and discover/implement practical solutions.
• Open to and proposes new ideas to improve existing work processes.
• Helps drive change to reduce complexity.
• Uses customer/client information to improve work processes.
• Recognizes cross-functional as well as cross-Finance impacts and takes action to address needs.
• Must demonstrate initiative and leadership competencies in this role.
• Must demonstrate technical Accounting competency.
• Challenges status quo in processes.

Qualification:-

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Fresher or along with 1-2 years of relevant experience Or CA with experience in similar role.

Skill Set/Experience:-

• Strong in accounting and analytical skills.
• working knowledge of US GAAP & IFRS.
• sound knowledge of SAP FICO / SOX Controls, well versed with Microsoft applications.
• good communication skills with clarity in thought process.
• ability to work in pressure during tighter deadlines etc.
• positive attitude with zeal to learn new things.
• Macros basic knowledge.
• Blackline tool knowledge.