Senior Accountant

The Senior Accountant is responsible for managing expense recording and reconciling to enable accurate, reliable, and timely reporting of financial statements and other financial data. This individual will ensure that team targets and KPIs are met and/or exceeded and will support operational excellence and continuous improvement initiatives. This position has certain responsibilities related to global process governance, primarily through the oversight of transaction processing and validation. The position also has responsibility for providing information support for and review of business analysis, as well as for first level interaction with other GBSC and business unit teams in the course of issue identification and resolution.

Responsibilities
Prepare monthly journal entries in accordance with U.S. GAAP
Monitor accounting for agreements for compliance with MasterCards policies, procedures and related accounting literature
Prepare balance sheet account reconciliations
Adheres to the monthly and year end close schedules and perform monthly expense reporting
Provides insight into expense accounting activity through preparation of management reporting, variance analysis, and ad-hoc analysis
Performs ongoing documentation and procedures maintenance as required
Works to continuously improve expense processes; recognizes opportunities for improvement and develops actions plans to implement them
Represents GBSC on cross-functional project teams in support of initiatives with impact to the expense accounting process, identifies issues and develops recommendations for resolution, monitoring and reporting on progress
Provides Expense customer service support to help resolve issues in a timely manner
Drives front line interaction with other GBSC teams and internal business units in support of identification and resolution of processing issues.
Participate in SOX testing and internal and external audits and respond to requests timely and appropriately

Experience
Bachelor s degree in Accounting or Finance
CPA, Chartered Accountant, and/or MBA preferred
Systems experience with Oracle, Reconciliation tools
Prior related work experience, with expense accounting experience preferred. Knowledge of expense accounting and management processes and systems;
Experience in shared services/internal service delivery role a plus
Experience as a team member on project development/implementation teams a plus
Solid understanding of generally accepted accounting principles and procedures
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Excellent time management and organizational skills
Customer service skills (communication with customers and process partners)
Excellent spreadsheet and word processing skills (Excel and Word preferred)