Senior Accountant - A/R and Credit Control - Morden Trade

Job Summary:
This position is responsible for overview control over credit management, order and AR management for channel MT to ensure timely, accurate and cost-effective financial and management reporting system in accordance with SPVB policy and local requirements. Provide stewardship of assets, operations and financial compliances by assessing risks and designing processes and controls for total Order to Cash - MT (incl. CDA, MEM, and AR management) to deliver key financial KPIs, mainly Revenue, AR and Cash flow.
Job Responsibilities:
1. Financial and Operating Control
- Extensive understanding of functional process streams incl. S2C, CDA, Credit policy, AR management in customer credit rating, credit supply approval, credit risks, aging AR report, collections, manual release, timely provision and bad debt prevention/collection and ability to assess risks and provide recommendations to mitigate risks.
- Relates business process and controls with business goals and Corporate policies and standards
- Articulates applicable corporate policies and standards
2. Financial Process Management
- Perform process or control within Credit policy, Credit management, Order and AR management with minimal supervision.
3. Financial Reporting
- Understanding of closing process and reporting requirements
- Generate accurate, timely reporting and information for external or corporate compliance purposes
- Generate relevant, accurate, timely reporting for management's use in understanding the state of the business
- Ability to analyse financial reports and results as well as variances within accounts.
- Knowledge of US and local statutory GAAP as applied to internal / extrernal reporting requirements
4. Business Risk Assessment & Mgnt
- Work as a Control Owner for a subset of controls capable of performing ""Show-me tell me"" with CO as part of the process
- Clearly articulate how key activities in their role effectively mitigate risk
- Actively participate in the Risk Assessment process
- Speaks the language of GCS when describing Risk Management activities
- Define SMART remediation plans and timely implement
- Identify mitigating controls for significant ineffective controls
- Able to quantifying the potential impact of ineffective controls
- Articulate other key control activities and business risks within the same business process
- Identify inefficiencies in process and drive change management to make a process more effective
- Identify whether a control activity fully mitigates the risk it covers
5. Accounting & Tax - ACCOUNTING
- Be responsible for the application of accounting policies into transactional processes. (Correct accounting for each transaction)
- Prepare accounting schedules supporting management requirements and decisions
- Knowledge of local statutory reporting requirements and relationships to US GAAP, undertanding of translation process from local to US GAAP for a particular account or sets of account