Sr Accountant
At a glance
Senior Accounting role at Avient. Shanghai · full-time.
Pay not stated Accounting salary
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What you'll do
- Review finance processes and data flows to spot repetitive work that could be automated
- Turn finance teams’ needs into automation improvements, working with IT on practical designs and delivery
- Connect finance and business users to support accurate data exchange, then build dashboards for management decisions
- Rotate through accounting and costing work while advancing cost reduction and operational efficiency projects
- Help train the finance community and take on other finance improvement projects as needed
What you bring
- A bachelor's degree in accounting or equivalent experience
- At least three years working in accounting or in IT supporting finance
- Strong Microsoft Office skills and a working grasp of automation and visualization tools such as VBA, SQL or Power BI
- Familiarity with finance processes
Who this fits
This senior role suits someone who can combine accounting or finance-IT experience with process analysis, automation and dashboard work. You'll work with manufacturing finance, business unit finance, corporate analytical finance and IT, and the role is onsite in Shanghai.
From the employer
The Senior Corporate Accountant supports Asia finance group in a key finance role and is responsible for finance process improvements through various digitalization and automation tools to enable overall finance team efficiency and faster financial data flows to support with better business decisions. Additionally, this role assists with our finance community training culture, as well as ad-hoc finance operational excellence projects.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Understand core finance processes and data logics, participate in financial data-flow and process analysis to identify repetitive tasks suitable for automation.
- Gather and analyze business requirements from various finance functions to develop and apply emerging technologies to support finance process optimization and automation, collaborate with IT resources to design practical implementation solutions, drive projects completion and enhancements for ongoing business requirements, as well as assisting in establishing standardized processes and operating procedures.
- Support data integration efforts by connecting business and finance users, enabling the automated, accurate, and seamless flow of data across platforms and develop dashboards that transform complex financial information into clear visual insights, providing management with intuitive and actionable decision support.
- Rotate with accounting and costing processes to drive cost reduction and operational efficiencies initiatives.
- Performs other special projects as needed.
Scope
This role faces several key customers as part of both daily responsibilities and as part of project teams, including Manufacturing Finance, Business Unit Finance, Corporate Analytical Finance and IT group.
Required Education:
- Bachelors-Accounting or equiv exp
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (eg. Excel, Powerpoint).
- Good grasp of automation and data-visualization tools (eg. VBA, SQL, Power BI, RPA).
- Familiar with finance business processes.
- Prior experience with SAP system knowledge preferred.
- Personal Skills - Stress Management
Intermediate
- Personal Skills - Attention to Detail
Intermediate
- Personal Skills - Self Motivated
Intermediate
- Personal Skills - Analytical Skills
Intermediate
- Personal Skills - Time/Priority Management
Intermediate
- Personal Skills - Work both Independently and on a Team
Intermediate
Required Length & Type of Experience:
- At least 3 years working experience in Accounting, IT with finance
- Experience in a finance digital-transformation role within a Big Four consulting firm is a Plus.
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