Staff Accountant
- Recruiter
- MUREX
- Location
- New York, New York, United States
- Salary
- Competitive salary
- Posted
- 25 Sep 2020
- Closes
- 26 Sep 2020
- Ref
- 23749
- Job role
- Accountant
- Sector
- Accounting - Public practice
- Experience level
- Qualified accountant
Murex is a recognized global leader in software development for trading, risk management and processing. Every day banks, asset managers, corporations and utilities, across the world, rely on Murex people and Murex solutions to support their capital markets activities. Our motto "pioneering again" sums it all up: since its creation, Murex has reinvented itself time and again to adapt to capital markets revolutions - each time offering innovative software solutions to the industry.
Over 2200 specialists are located across our 17 offices: Beijing, Beirut, Dubai, Dublin, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Moscow, New York, Paris, Sao Paulo, Santiago, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, and Toronto.
Why join us:
Murex Americas is looking for a Staff Accountant who will provide support for Finance Department overseeing New York, Canada, Chile, Brazil and Mexico. The right candidate should be detail oriented, a quick learner, adaptable, and have great communication skills.
Your responsibilities:
VENDOR PAYABLES
Employees and External Consultants
REPORTING
Period-end accounts closing
The following duties shall be carried out within strict respect of the group deadlines:
PROCEDURE & CONTROLLING
TAXATION
ANNUAL CLOSING
AD-HOC PROJECTS
To be successful in this role:
Over 2200 specialists are located across our 17 offices: Beijing, Beirut, Dubai, Dublin, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Moscow, New York, Paris, Sao Paulo, Santiago, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, and Toronto.
Why join us:
Murex Americas is looking for a Staff Accountant who will provide support for Finance Department overseeing New York, Canada, Chile, Brazil and Mexico. The right candidate should be detail oriented, a quick learner, adaptable, and have great communication skills.
Your responsibilities:
VENDOR PAYABLES
Employees and External Consultants
- Processing of all reimbursable employee expenses
- Reconciliation and processing of invoices submitted by external consultants
- Maintain internal listing of active external consultants
- Processing of all other vendor invoices
REPORTING
Period-end accounts closing
The following duties shall be carried out within strict respect of the group deadlines:
- Processing and reconciliation of accounts for intercompany transactions including sales, travel expenses, and others and rebilling to other business units
- Reconciliation and adjustments including accruals of all accounts related to the cost of external consultants
- Generating supporting internal reports
- Work closely with Finance Team to ensure completeness of transactions, including prepaids and accruals for monthly close
- Reconciling monthly corporate credit cards
- Preparation and input of general ledger entries
PROCEDURE & CONTROLLING
- Help establish and improve existing internal procedures related to payable and expense accrual
- Adhere to global processes and procedures
TAXATION
- Ensure sales and use tax filings are done accurately and timely
ANNUAL CLOSING
- Work closely with Accounting Supervisor and Financial Controller on preparation of supporting schedules based on auditors' PBC list
- Ensure flow of support by managing set deadlines
AD-HOC PROJECTS
To be successful in this role:
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Self-driven team player with excellent communication skills; must be comfortable working independently
- Strong organizational and analytical skills
- Experience with ERP (Sage, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft)
- Good knowledge of Excel (manipulation of data, advanced formulas), Outlook, and MS office
- Highly focused on team efficiency and development
- Detail oriented
- Ability to work in a team within the head office location, with foreign colleagues from Finance Departments worldwide
- Accuracy of cost allocation and accounting reports
- Timeliness of regulatory filing, accounts closing, and internal reporting
- Ability to analyze, report, and propose recommendations
- Ability to communicate efficiently and effectively