Senior Analyst- General Accounting

The Senior General Accounting Analyst role is highly involved and will assist the General Accounting Manager with month end processes to ensure a timely and accurate month end close. The position also involves the review of documentation supporting the completeness and accuracy of key financial reports. The position is accountable for the coordination, reconciliation and completion of the balancing of ledgers for transmitted financial information, various balance sheet reconciliations, and lead responsibilities for personnel training and report building. This role is tasked to reconcile, troubleshoot, and communicate any issues related to their assigned financial review and reconciliations in a timely manner, while also assisting with automation through Oracle Allocations and Data Services automations. Ad-hoc Reporting, Audit requests, and Project support are additional tasks that this position may be asked to assist with. The position may also be required to assist with Acquisition and System Integration related General Accounting activities. This position will interact with numerous functional areas, such as Enterprise R&C, SBS and the Group finance teams, providing exposure to many different areas as well, which may include the Global Sherwin-Williams Business Senior Executives.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS

1. Highly involved in monthly and month-end close processes (Canada, Jamaica, and United States)
   
   
   
   1. Provide in-depth financial review and analysis of source data files: Cell phone, Phone, Xerox, etc. and perform accruals as needed
   2. Balancing responsibilities
   3. Create journal voucher entries: including, but not limited to Relocation, Severance, Payroll and Site/Field accruals
   4. Assist General Accounting Manager with General Accounting monthly and month end close issues as they arise
   5. Assist Manager with review of accuracy and completeness of processes, reconciliations and financial information: Financial review, reporting and validation
   6. Lead in the building, trouble shooting and training of OneStream Reporting
   7. Involvement in key company initiatives and various system or process implementation
   
   
2. Monthly Balance Sheet account reconciliations
   
   
   
   1. Timely completion of monthly balance sheet reconciliations
   2. Research balances to determine why they exist and what must happen to clear them
   3. Create needed journal voucher entries to reconcile accounts
   4. Relocation, Severance, Cell and Phone, Xerox reconciliations
   5. Uploading reconciliations into RCM
   
   
3. Responsible for Source to Ledger Balancing
   
   
   
   1. Reconcile Domestic and International System Source financial information to General Ledger/Cloud financial information
   2. Assist the General Accounting Manager with the daily, weekly and month end review, tasks and meetings performed by and with IT for timeliness, completeness and accuracy
   3. Provide Status reporting to Management of results, including the open items, corrective actions and timely resolutions
   
   
4. Act as a resource to HQ, Site/Field personnel, and General Accounting staff regarding all financial related matters; achieve resolution in a timely manner
   
   
   
   1. Field phone calls and address Financial, Reporting and System questions
   2. Review and upload various reclass requests from HQ and Site/Field personnel (including organization and appropriate support of financial information)
   3. Lead and assist in the building, running, and training of Systems (included, but not limited to, Journal Vouchers, JV Drill, OneStream Reporting, Balance Sheet reconciliations)
   
   
5. Assist with the implementation of Transactional Lean Initiatives
   
   
   
   1. Identify and act on opportunities for improvement (Systems/Tools, Reporting, Processes)
   2. Utilize Data Services technology to automate manual tasks
   3. Utilize RPA Services technology to automate manual tasks
   
   

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

FORMAL EDUCATION:

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:

Required:

• 3 years of Accounting or Finance experience
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Excellent customer service orientation

Preferred:

• Experience in recording financial transactions
• Previous experience with Oracle, Oracle Cloud and OneStream
• Transactional Lean training

TECHNICAL/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

Required:

• Microsoft Office products Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Clear and concise communication in verbal and written form
• Organizing, planning and prioritizing work
• Detail-oriented, flexible
• Team-oriented
• Ability to work independently

Preferred:

• Adapt easily to technological advancements in a fast-paced environment
• Use experience and knowledge to improve and lean processes
• Using logic and reasoning to identify strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems
• SW Reporting Tools (OneStream, RCM, FactFinder, etc)

Travel: 10%