Accounting Analyst
WelocalizeJob Summary
As an Accounting Analyst at Welocalize, you will play a crucial role in driving the company's global business journey by analyzing customer revenue and margins. You will work closely with the accounting department to produce reliable and consistent margin analysis and reporting, as well as investigate anomalies in customer margins and spend trends. Your responsibilities will include preparing account analyses and reconciliations, journal entries, and internal reports for the consolidated business, consolidation process, and specified corporate-level business units. With a strong understanding of financial systems and business intelligence software, you will coordinate with key stakeholders across multiple time zones to ensure accurate accounting and compliance with GAAP and local statutory rules. Welocalize is committed to equal opportunities and encourages candidates with disabilities to apply. As a remote position, you will have the flexibility to work from anywhere while contributing to the company's innovative language services and high-quality training data transformation solutions.
MAIN DUTIES
- Analyze revenue and costs as well as respective balance sheet roll forwards.
- Work closely with the accounting department and others in the organization to help evaluate the organization's income and spending, and to provide detailed reports that include analyses for profits and losses.
- Analyze, investigate, inquire and action on anomalies in customer margins and spend trends.
- Provide reports necessary for higher-level decision makers.
- Prepare account analyses and reconciliations, journal entries, and internal reports for the consolidated business, consolidation process, and for specified business units and categories. Become proficient at using financial system and business intelligence software to support this.
- Coordinate and assist with monthly reviews with key stakeholders within a global and multicurrency environment across multiple time zones.
- Assist with month end close process and related financial analyses for the consolidated business, consolidation process, and specified corporate-level business units.
- Understand the impact of intercompany transactions and related business goals; ensure accounting reflects intended intercompany outcomes, the substance of transactions, and complies with GAAP & local statutory rules.
- Assist with support of external audits and preparation of audited Financial Statements.
- Assist with development and implementation of internal controls.
- Performs other duties as assigned
REQUIREMENTS
- 2-3 years prior experience with a mixture of private and public experiences.
- Part Qualified and Qualified Bachelor's degree in Accounting and/or Finance/ Professional Accounting Qualification.
- Knowledge of Workday FIN is not required but would be advantageous.
- Ability to work with multiple systems in a global multi-currency environment.
- Ability to communicate clearly with all clients and employees on a global basis and providing truly exception customer service.
- Strong Excel skills including pivot tables and VLOOKUPS. Ability to review and organize large volumes of data required.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong technical skills, analytical and problem solving skills.
- Ability to propose and implement a solution.
- Strong general ledger and accrual accounting understanding.
- Ability to multi-task
- Open to change and willing to learn new skills
