Senior GL Accountant

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Job Description

Albemarle is hiring for a General Ledger Senior Accountant. This position is hybrid and located in Budapest.

What You Will Do

• Acts as a single point of the managed entity, have full E2E ownership and responsibility RTR related activities both for local standards and USGAAP
• Responsible for high level review of the Entity Financial Statements after the closing.
• Review entity level closing checks.
• Posting standard and non-standard Journal entries.
• Calculate and post capitalized interest.
• Process various calculations and journal entries including accruals in compliance with company standards and met the quality and timely expectations.
• Prepare Journal Entry items for further approval.
• Process several reconciliations: AP/AR, Interests, Service fees, dividends, prepare Intercompany reconciliations and balance confirmation.
• Prepare investment, equity, APIC, Sales, COGS, PPV reconciliations, account reconciliations.
• Perform non-standard Billing and verification.
• Run deferred account management.
• Review and approve capital projects involved in capital projects reporting.
• Involved in fixed assets management: capitalization, retirement, fixed assets reporting.
• Involved in standard IPC eliminations.
• Involved in Joint Venture activities.
• Complete SOX documentations.
• Complete and verify government reporting.
• Prepare statutory financial statements (if relevant), support statutory financials audit activities.
• Confirm PA & FI standard gross profit tie-out, research differences across SAP modules, identify root cause and coordinate corrections with appropriate sources
• Provide oversight and local currency reasonableness check to settlement of capital project WBS elements, correction of corrupted WBS elements, posting of US GAAP and STAT depreciation and posting of non-depreciation asset activities (ASKB)
• Contributes goals to be achieved in any other tasks which are delegated by the Manager, Team Lead.

What You Bring

Required:

• College or university degree preferably in finance/accountancy
• Min. 3-4 years in the relevant field (GL transactions, accounting or finance), fixed assets experience is a must

• IFRS and /or EU GAAP experience, exposure to US GAAP is a plus

• Advanced communication level in English (both written and verbal)

  Advanced knowledge of MS Office (Excel, Word)

  Having good understanding of GL transactional processes

Preferred:

• Logical thinking and pay attention to the details under pressure as well
• High tolerance for monotony
• Good interpersonal skills

Benefits of Joining Albemarle

• Competitive compensation

• Comprehensive benefits package

• A diverse array of resources to support you professionally and personally.

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