Senior Financial Reporting Accountant LATAM

at  CSL Behring

THE OPPORTUNITY:

Reporting to the Director, ATR who is based in Liverpool (UK), the central location for Accounting to Report, as the Senior Financial Reporting Accountant LATAM , you will be in a new role resulting from CSL’s new Operating Model and the establishment of a Global Accounting Operations Team. You will be a part of the Account to Report team and is responsible for Financial Accounting for one or more entities to deliver accurate and timely execution of Financial Accounting activities. You will perform complex transactions and statutory reporting across the set of entity codes. It also includes support for projects and continuous improvement and liaising with Finance Business Partners for escalations. This is a hybrid role, which offers a combination of an onsite and remote work schedule. #LI-hybrid

• Prepare and post recurring and standard manual journals, including intercompany entries and topside FinanceCore journals.
• Approve Business Partner journals within operating system ensuring compliance to global journal policy.
• Prepare and post accruals and reclassification entries that do not require discussion or interaction with cost center owners (e.g., utility journals, insurance expense, and payroll corrections, workers compensation and property taxes).
• Perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations, including but not limited to Accruals, Prepayments, Inventory, Intergroup/Intercompany and payroll alongside month end reconciliations for IC/IG sales and COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) confirmations and reconciliations.
• Identify reconciliation issues between operating systems SAP, BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation) (Business Planning & Consolidation) and FinanceCore and resolve any issues that are due to system/ transactional gaps. Including reaching out to business partners to help resolve any issues that require discussion.
• Process allocations (incl. R&D cost allocation), incl. payroll costs and WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) elements based of monthly timesheets, wages and salaries accounting, share-based calculations and reconciliation with HR (Human Resources) incl. superannuation and benefit queries, including monthly PTO (Paid Time Off) Journal Entries. Maintain and report on prepaid balance amounts.
• Support preparation of entity budgets and forecasts including Profit & Loss (limited), Balance sheet and cashflow statement. Prepare and load data from the budgeting and planning tool to the consolidation system for all legal entities.
• Analyse and report on variances between actuals, budget, and forecasts for balance sheets and cash flow.
• Prepare preliminary local statutory report (for major locations) including financial statements and government reporting this will include calculation of local statutory adjustments between IFRS and local GAAP.
• Ensure reporting compliance and month filing of entities under IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) providing adjustment calculations and support with Controlling & Reporting for review.