Financial Reporting Accountant

Summary

The Financial Reporting Accountant at Digicel will support the GL accounting team by ensuring accurate financial reporting, assisting with period-end close activities, analyzing financial reports, and collaborating with internal stakeholders to identify and resolve variances while adhering to accounting standards and improving process efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Primary objective:

  • • Support the GL accounting team
  • • Interact with business partners on all levels to identify needs
  • • Ensure all process activities are performed on time and with the necessary quality
  • • Assist with transactions, understand variances and proactively identify potential problems to streamline and improve productivity and accuracy of the processes
  • • Provide regular reporting and analysis to key stakeholders
  • • Communicate with internal stakeholders on a regular basis to discuss operational issues, key metrics
  • • Respond to ad hoc requests for analytics
  • • Support the financial accounting and reporting processes and analyze financial reports and general entries to understand operations and identify variances
  • • Support period-end close activities in accordance with agreed close schedules
  • • Support compliance with accounting standards and control frameworks.

• Process-specific role responsible for:

  • • Support with the reviewing of general ledger reconciliations;
  • • Supporting in period-end close processes;
  • • Support with the reviewing of preliminary Trial balances;
  • • Processing management adjustments;
  • • Performing key activities in the general ledger close;
  • • Supporting internal control testing;
  • • Providing external audit support;
  • • Assist with developing standard procedures and templates;
  • • Support continuous improvement opportunities;
  • • Recording/reporting accounting transactions, assisting with P&L and BS accounts;
  • • Analysing and reconciling balances and period-end activities;
  • • Performing revenue and cost accounting;
  • • Assisting in intercompany processing where required

Required Skills

• • Ability to interact with leadership, key stakeholders, employees and clients in a professional manner
• • Highly qualified team with specialized skills and knowledge
• • Financial acumen
• • Clear written and verbal communication
• • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Qualifications

• • Bachelor degree in Finance or Accounting, or any other related field
• • Three - Four (3-4) years relevant working experience
• • Professional Accounting Qualification
• • Previous demonstrable, the relevant and progressive experience of general accounting and intercompany
• • Strong, demonstrable knowledge of accounting principles and accounting standards (US GAAP / IFRS), as well as tax reporting
• • Lean / Six Sigma exposure or equivalent desired
• • Proficiency in using ERP systems and MS products, such as Excel and Word
• • Ability to interact with leadership, key stakeholders, employees and suppliers in a professional manner.

Additional Information and Instructions

This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may, and probably will be asked to perform other duties as required. Each employee, regardless of classification, is required to maintain a safe, orderly and clean workplace, using safety precautions and observing safety rules at all times.

About Digicel

Enabling customers to live, work, play and flourish in a connected world, Digicel’s world class LTE and fibre networks deliver state-of-the-art mobile, home and business solutions. Serving 10 million consumer and business customers in 25 markets in the Caribbean and Central America, its investments of over US$5 billion and a commitment to its communities through its Digicel Foundations in Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago have contributed to positive outcomes for over 2 million people to date. With the Better Connected ethos at the heart of everything, its 5,000 employees worldwide work together to make that a powerful reality for customers, communities and countries day in, day out. Digicel also delivers news, sports broadcasting, digital media and financial services in several of its markets

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