Finance Group - Accounting Analyst

Description
Sponsorship: GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP (e.g., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT, etc.) NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.
Work Arrangement:
This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the office three times per week or other frequency dictated by the business.
The Role
Serve as a Strategic Business Partner, bringing timely and insightful decisions to all strategic and tactical matters as they related to SEC requirements, accounting, audit/SOX compliance and financial analyses, leveraging financial systems and processes that increase clarity, improve efficiency, shorten decision cycle times, and reinforce financial integrity and accountability.
What You'll Do
Responsible for operationally executing and supporting:

• Statutory Year-End Audit
• Preparation of Statutory Financial Statements and its notes disclosures under Local GAAP while ensuring compliance with regulatory and external reporting requirements and internal statutory filing deadlines.
• Account reconciliation between local GAAP and US GAAP: validating that all documents have been posted to local ledgers.
• Create and analyze Statutory Journal Entries based on financial information from US GAAP to Local GAAP (ie. IFRS etc.).
• Prepare supporting documentation for statutory financial statements in line with local GAAP to a standard ready for external audit.
• Maintain and apply knowledge of accounting standards and developments that affect the business/country.
• Support external audit process by preparation of the external audit, working with colleagues across the Controllership to plan and produce the audit file, in a timely an accurate manner, learning from previous years' audits.
• Provide clear reporting of information and analyzes data within a business area to identify reporting improvements.
• Perform his/her tasks the way ensuring all milestones of statutory reporting cycle are met on time in order to avoid any risks that may result from late internal or external filing.
• Maintain documentation in accordance with SOX requirements
• Ensures compliance with GM Corporate policies and external regulatory requirements
• Interacts with internal/external related parties (impacted Business Units, Global Controller's Team, Global Finance Teams, External Auditors, etc.)
• Manages the relationship with the external auditors to ensure the audit is as short as possible resulting in an excellent audit report.
• Has strong control focus - brings any issues (accounting or control related) forward immediately
• Has a strong focus on process improvements to drive quality statutory reporting process accounting and external audit and related internal processes.
• Highly technical in the use of SAP system (t-codes, asset module flow, etc.) and navigation of One Source Reporting (OSR) Tool.
• Supports BCP, BIA activities and updates EUCA Files
• Willing to work 9AM - 6PM

Additional Description
What Will Give You A Competitive Edge

• Experience in preparing Statutory Financial Statements and notes disclosures (preferred)
• Technically strong, with a working knowledge of Local GAAP (i.e. IFRS. PFRS, US GAAP, etc.)

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