Ventures and Acquisitions Accounting Specialist
- Recruiter
- Accenture
- Location
- Dublin
- Salary
- Unspecified
- Posted
- 16 Apr 2019
- Closes
- 07 May 2019
- Ref
- 00700704
- Approved employers
- Approved employer
- Job role
- Accountant, Bookkeeper, Business analyst
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
Job Title: Ventures & Acquisitions (V&A) Controllership Specialist
Level: 9 - Consultant
Location: Dublin
Responsibilities:
Contributing to the successful finance integration arising from Ventures and Acquisitions activity:
- Responsible for integration of acquired entities’ Balance Sheet and P&L into SAP with the overall goal of “business as usual” within a defined timeframe
- Work collaboratively across various integration teams to ensure efficient integration of back office operations of acquired entities into Accenture standard practices
- Reconciliation of statutory financial statements to US GAAP opening balance sheet and affiliate accounting for acquired entities (audit / due diligence of financial statements)
- Provide finance / controllership support to local legal teams on liquidation of acquired entities
- Assist with monitoring of the V&A pipeline and gathering required information on upcoming acquisitions to communicate to impacted service delivery teams
- Create standardised process through working on existing and upcoming acquisitions and establish self as Acquisition Subject Matter Expert within the controllership group
- Maintain documentation and learnings from prior acquisitions to further finance excellence
- Ensure data retention compliance
Skills:
- Ability to work collaboratively across the finance organisation to achieve results
- Strong technical accounting knowledge around acquisition accounting
- Strong communication, facilitation and interpersonal skills
- Strong ownership mentality with initiative and high quality work standard
- Strong problem solving skills with ability to work autonomously as well as collaboratively - reliable with "can do" attitude
- Proficiency in Microsoft applications (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
- Experience with SAP an advantage
- Fluency in English
Basic qualifications
Qualifications and Experience:
Professional accountancy qualification, preferably ACCA, CIMA or ACA
- 5+ years of progressive financial accounting experience
- Acquisition accounting and finance integration experience
- Statutory accounts preparation experience
- Strong technical knowledge of US GAAP and experience of IFRS an advantage
- Legal entity liquidation experience an advantage
- Corporation Tax experience an advantage
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