Senior Financial Analyst

Senior Financial Analyst - Intercompany & Opex COE

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How will you make an impact in this role?

This position is part of the Global Record to Report, Intercompany Center of Excellence and the position will report into the Manager – Inter Company CoE.

The role will be responsible for managing the end to end financial accounting process, governance and oversight for AXP Inter Company. Intercompany transactions are complex transactions and operate in a highly regulated environment. It will be critical for this position to provide solutions to complex scenarios and drive it through to implementation.

The role partners strongly with Transfer Pricing, LE controllership, Affiliate COE’s, Business units, Segment controllers and finance teams and requires development of strong working relationships and communication across key business

Responsibilities:

• The incumbent will manage either/combination of processes including, Intercompany Governance, process mapping and risk assessment, Inter-Company accounting / reporting and Settlement.
• This position will also be responsible to supporting critical business initiatives and ongoing enterprise-wide Intercompany project.
• Manage end to end financial accounting process for AXP Inter Company. This will include ensuring appropriate controls and governance over accounting entries and processes performed
• Ensure compliance with agreed SLA, internal guidelines, accounting policies/ protocols and regulations that are applicable from time to time (AXP internal, USGAAP)
• Manage internal and external audits and other submissions to comply with regulatory/ tax requirements

• Ensure appropriate governance including monitoring, reporting & tracking at an AXP level

• Design and ensure delivery of MIS, analytics related to the entities/ processes managed to concerned stakeholders

• Timely submission of sub-ledger supports to reconciliation team

• Support/lead special projects to drive process enhancements and automation initiative

• Ensure compliance to AEMP 57 and IC Protocol requirements on exceptions, change enhancements- deliver metric reporting to leadership

• Ensure process health through metrics based governance – maintaining integrity of the financial statements

• Point of contact for stakeholders like LE and Tax controllership in for handling process/ system queries

• Support Technology, Finance partners, source system owners, and other stakeholders, for deployment of technology solutions for the processes. Additionally support in deploying solutions to acquire, enrich and provision the required data and ensure data integrity, accuracy and completeness
• Excellent accounting background and experience in accounting and reporting. Understanding of US GAAP reporting requirements is a must
• Strong internal control background and experience in improving processes from both an efficiency and control perspective.

• Fintech skills to adopt new tech capabilities and working in Cloud environment

• Ability to quickly grasp complex issues and gain end to end knowledge of processes. Additionally, strong focus and oversight required to ensure correct application of Intercompany protocol/ guidelines, monitoring of intercompany account balances, and reporting of key performance indicators associated with the monthly close process for intercompany transactions on a global basis
• The incumbent should have good maturity and display flexibility to respond quickly to crisis situations
• The incumbent will be expected to quickly gain detailed understanding of inputs, processes, controls, flows, metrics, risks, SLA, and outputs of the process area.
• The incumbent will be required to participate in standardization and continuous improvement initiatives as well as other business partner initiatives.
• He/ She shall ensure that all deadlines are continually met, and adequate controls are maintained over the processes

Functional Skills/Capabilities:

• CA / MBA with minimum of 5-6 years of post-qualification experience in accounting, governance processes, control management and audit handling.
• Ability to drive process automation initiatives. Experience in operational risk/SOX will be an added advantage.
• Ability to drive execution with proven project management skills.
• The successful candidate should possess strong analytical and problem-solving skill.
• Proven ability to communicate (verbally and written) effectively at all levels of the organization.
  
  Preferred Qualifications
• Functional knowledge of ERP financial systems like Oracle, Oracle Fusion Cloud, OBIEE etc. would be preferred. Excellent MS Excel & PowerPoint skills. Ability to conceptualize and though lead various discussions. Big picture thinking, energetic self-starter with positive can-do attitude.
• This role may be subject to additional background verification checks.

• Technical Skills/Capabilities:

• Understanding of US GAAP reporting requirements

• Knowledge of Platforms:

• Oracle GL and IC

• Behavioral Skills/Capabilities:

• Enterprise Leadership Behaviors

• Set The Agenda: Define What Winning Looks Like, Put Enterprise Thinking First, Lead with an External Perspective

• Bring Others With You: Build the Best Team, Seek & Provide Coaching Feedback, Make Collaboration Essential

• Do It The Right Way: Communicate Frequently, Candidly & Clearly, Make Decisions Quickly & Effectively, Live the Blue Box Values, Great Leadership Demands Courage