Accountant

About This Role

• The Role and Impact: The Accounting Operations organization partners across Finance to support high-quality accounting, controllership, close execution, and reporting processes through disciplined governance, strong stakeholder coordination, and scalable operating practices.
• The team helps ensure recurring close deliverables, project-related accounting activities, policy alignment, and analytical review processes are completed accurately, timely, and in alignment with broader finance and reporting requirements.
• This organization works closely with Corporate Accounting, Functional Area Finance teams, Controllers, Accounting Policy, Finance Systems, project teams, and other accounting stakeholders to support accurate accounting outcomes while continuously improving how work is executed, documented, and communicated across the organization.
• This role is a key member of Accounting Operations responsible for supporting the execution, coordination, and continuous improvement of accounting and reporting activities across assigned balance sheet and expense-related areas.
• This role combines recurring support for close activities, management reports, recurring transaction reporting, analytical reviews, and contract-related accounting assessments with project work tied to system transitions, S/4 testing and go-live support, policy updates, process refinement, and transformation initiatives.
• This position partners closely with Functional Area finance teams, Controllers, Accounting Policy, Finance Systems, and project stakeholders to ensure accounting activities are accurate, timely, well documented, and aligned with evolving business and policy requirements.
• Key Responsibilities : Support recurring monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities across assigned accounting areas, ensuring deliverables are completed accurately and on time.
• Prepare and maintain journal entries, reconciliations, supporting schedules, and account analyses tied to assigned balance sheet and expense-related workstreams.
• Help ensure continuity of work and delivery quality across periods of change, transition, or evolving project demands.
• Support both in-cycle and off-cycle accounting needs while maintaining strong organization and follow-through across multiple priorities.
• Operate effectively across recurring close activities and ad hoc support requests from broader accounting and finance stakeholders.
• Support project-related accounting activities tied to business or finance transformation initiatives, ensuring deliverables are completed accurately and followed through to completion.
• Support testing, validation, issue identification, and go-live readiness activities related to S/4 and other system/process changes.
• Support the preparation, refinement, and delivery of management reports and other management reporting materials for assigned areas.
• Provide thoughtful analysis and commentary that helps improve management understanding of recurring transactions, balance trends, and key accounting activity.
• Pre-draft explanations for known or expected transactions and prepare for management review discussions by anticipating likely questions.
• Support effective preparation for controller and management review meetings by reviewing open questions, drafting responses, and aligning messaging with key stakeholders.
• Support recurring reporting processes related to other assets and liabilities, including transaction listings, reporting outputs, and analytical insights.
• Support recurring analytical reviews and threshold-based tests, including activities comparable to balance sheet percentage or materiality-based analyses.
• Review significant operating expense contracts or commitments on a recurring basis to help ensure accounting treatment is appropriate.
• Validate supporting setup information, including purchase order or related operational attributes, to confirm expenses are being recorded to the appropriate accounts.
• Develop and apply AI, automation, and digital tool capabilities to improve process efficiency, reporting clarity, issue identification, and documentation support.