Senior Accountant - Reporting

As a Senior Accountant of the Reporting Center of Excellence team you will focus on reporting compliance maintaining best practices and assisting with risk and control gap assessments and resolution within the Accounting organization. You will be responsible for monthly quarterly and annual financial accounting and management reporting activities ensuring the presented informations completeness accuracy and timeliness. The work involves regularly interfacing with leaders and their teams across FSS NA to review reporting consistency and adherence to Company accounting policies and audit requirements in addition to participating in high-visibility projects to drive continuous transformation.

Additional requirements include but are not limited to:

• Good communication and interpersonal skills to establish strong relationships with cross-functional teams
• An ability to quickly adapt to changes in business requirements
• A desire to learn and take on new opportunities with a sense of urgency high energy and enthusiasm

Wolters Kluwer Financial Shared Services (FSS) focuses on building accounting expertise in a tower structure: Record to Report Procure to Pay and Order to Cash and provides support to the businesses of Wolters Kluwer in a standardized harmonized and high-quality manner. If successful the candidate can expand their expertise within a global organization.

Essential Duties and responsibilities

• Utilize Accounting expertise to analyze and offer guidance on reporting accuracy and presentation including providing recommendations to establish standard accounting policies
• Participate in monthly quarterly and yearly reporting and review of financial reports processes with the FSS NA and Divisional leaders
• Serve as a Tagetik consolidation application reporting liaison for FSS NA with the Corporate Consolidations team
• Drive simplification efforts and improve standardization in reporting financial processes and tools
• Partner with business stakeholders to learn business processes and identify risks and opportunities in resulting deliverables
• Contribute or lead accounting or cross-functional team projects to implement process improvements and financial system implementations or enhancements
• Ensure internal control environment documentation is in place and is being followed
• Support different groups with audit requests and data gathering
• Other duties as assigned

Job Qualifications

Education: Bachelors degree in Accounting

Required Experience:

• 7-9 years of accounting experience at least 3 years in reporting/consolidations
• Experience with financial reporting applications
• Advanced skills in core Microsoft Office applications (e.g. Excel Word PowerPoint)
• Technology savvy with demonstrated ability to learn systems and processes quickly

Highly Desirable Experience:

• Public accounting experience

• CA or CPA or working toward the license
• Proficient knowledge of SAP or other major ERP systems
• Experience with BlackLine or other large account reconciliation applications
• Professional experience and awareness of the complexity interactions and dynamics within a large multi-national company
• Competence with large data sets and knowledge of best practices for data cleanliness/integrity
• Process standardization expertise

Other Knowledge Skills Abilities or Certifications: (First list requirements followed by preferences.)

• Ability to work flexible hours (US and UK hours) to coordinate with the rest of the team during peak close and reporting periods
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong communication skills written and verbal
• Highly organized detail-oriented approach to work; demonstrated ability to produce high-quality work in ambiguous environments
• Ability to work independently under moderate direction with a willingness to take the initiative and follow through on projects
• Desire to consistently exceed expectations and take on more responsibility
• Clear interest and passion for challenging the status quo
• Must be proactive and recommend solutions when discussing problems
• Demonstrated ability to remain calm under pressure and meet tight deadlines
• Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.