Responsibilities
- Lead the preparation and submission of statutory financial reports and regulatory disclosures across all international regions.
- Ensure consistency between U.S. GAAP financial reporting and local statutory reporting standards, including IFRS and country-specific accounting frameworks.
- Supervise local statutory audit procedures with focus on quality assurance and adherence to scheduled timelines.
- Coordinate statutory audits worldwide, promoting uniform audit readiness practices and standardized documentation.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with local audit firms and external vendors involved in statutory reporting.
- Document technical accounting decisions for statutory filings, ensuring transparency and audit readiness across jurisdictions.
- Collaborate with internal teams to establish and maintain a unified global approach to intercompany accounting, settlements, and cross-border funding.
- Work with the Business Applications team to ensure ERP systems and related technologies support intercompany and cross-border accounting needs, including automation and scalability.
- Manage intercompany billing processes and foster strong relationships among all group entities.
- Review transfer pricing journal entries with the Corporate Accounting team to verify accuracy and completeness of intercompany charges.
- Partner with Tax and Corporate Accounting teams to implement and validate transfer pricing methodologies across the organization.
- Prepare and examine reconciliations of intercompany account balances during both consolidated and statutory reporting cycles.
- Assist with reconciliation tasks and other Finance-related activities as needed, supporting timely month-end and period-end closing.
- Oversee accounting for capital injections, dividend distributions, intercompany loans, and other international financing and treasury activities.
- Lead the intercompany settlement process in coordination with Treasury to ensure accurate and timely resolution of balances.
- Ensure compliance with existing intercompany agreements across all entities.
- Evaluate cumulative translation adjustments and foreign exchange gains or losses from intercompany transactions for reasonableness, escalating notable discrepancies when necessary.
- Maintain detailed compliance calendars and track statutory governance and regulatory requirements across all jurisdictions.
- Collaborate with Legal and Tax teams on entity setup, restructurings, dissolutions, and optimization of the corporate structure.
- Monitor regulatory developments in all operating countries to assess potential impacts on compliance obligations.
- Develop and deploy scalable statutory reporting processes that minimize manual work and enhance global compliance oversight.
- Utilize ERP functionality, workflow automation, and new technologies to modernize statutory reporting systems.
- Create standardized reporting templates, frameworks, and governance models applicable across regions.
- Design and implement process improvements in intercompany accounting to increase consistency and reduce manual intervention globally.
- Lead and manage finance transformation initiatives, working across departments to deliver process and system enhancements.
