Senior Finance Accountant Jobs

Reporting to the Controller, the Senior Finance Accountant is a key Accounting team member (part of the North America Finance Team)

The SFA is responsible for the month-end close of Haddington. This includes maintaining the general ledger, preparing journal entries and account reconciliation and preparing variance analysis of the balance sheet and income statements to prior periods. The SFA will also assist in other day-to-day business accounting and finance activities.

Responsibilities

• Building excellent relationships across Finance and Business, working to resolve issues in a timely manner
• Prepare regulatory filings (Use tax; Business personal property tax)
• Review and process employee reimbursements
• Other duties as assigned
• Providing oversight, understanding variances, and proactively identifying problems and opportunities to standardize, streamline and improve processes and accuracy
• Assisting in continuous improvement projects (including relevant systems) and testing (where required)
• Driving the professionalization of Ocado reporting and raising the bar on quality
• Assist in year-end audit, tax preparation, and other statutory filings
• Complete intercompany reconciliation and post any required entries to the general leader
• Prepare, review and enter journal entries; perform all balance sheet account reconciliations; and resolve differences
• Reviewing and preparing financial statement variance analysis to the prior period
• Assist in the preparation and implementation of accounting policies and procedures
• Full-cycle accounting for Haddington
• Assist with additional projects as requested
• Process and post A/P invoices and prepare the check-run file for approval
• Responsible for fixed assets accounting
• Embedding a culture of controls within the team, responsible for operating effectiveness of all key controls within the department’s processes and remediation of any control weaknesses
• Perform Bank reconciliation
• Championing Ocado’s values
• Preparing month-end reporting package upload to the Consolidation team
• Complete the month-end close process, including general accruals
• Supporting internal control and audit processes and the safeguarding of Ocado assets

Qualifications

• Have a continuous improvement mindset; to continually drive efficiency and performance
• Relevant financial qualifications (CPA license required) and understanding of relevant regulatory environments. Strong knowledge of IFRS
• Strong analytic, organizational skills, attention to detail
• Good knowledge of accounting, tax and reporting standards & principles,
• Hands-on experience in a similar size company; “can-do” the mechanics of the function
• Ability to build trusted relationships with their stakeholders. Become a trusted partner to stakeholders
• Excellent excel skills
• 5+ years accounting experience
• Ability to collaborate with peers, members of management and cross-functional team
• Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth, global organization
• Experience with supply chain, fulfillment, or manufacturing preferred
• Outcome-focused; ability to prioritize key activities to achieve outcomes
• In-depth understanding of core financial processes and relevant systems preferred (Odue, Oracle Fusion, FCCS, EPBCS)