Regional Staff Accountant at Atlas

About the role

• Reporting to the Regional Finance Director, Europe and America, the Regional Staff Accountant is ensuring financial & tax compliance of multiple countries in the Europe and America region, follows local as well as company processes, policies and procedures as may be directed, working with the local professional service providers, and coordinating with global functions under guidance of Regional Finance Director. The Regional Staff Accountant ensures a complete flow of tasks right from the requirements during the setup of a new entity to ensuring full local and global compliances of the entities assigned including month-end processes. The Regional Staff Accountant will work with various team members in a collaborative environment to improve business processes, training materials, data clean-up, and on-going support including assignments during software transitions. The position is being of independent contributor though supervision of teams may be assigned as per requirements.

Responsibilities

• To manage all regional country compliances (including providing trial balances and other supporting documents) with in-country local providers for accounting, tax (income tax, VAT/GST/Sales tax, property tax, business tax and annual reports) and other compliances.
• To ensure journal entries are properly documented and supported.
• Making payroll postings and other entries in the accounting system, fund-transfers and bank reconciliations.
• To prepare local financial information in collab with local Partners, reviews and files various returns.
• To drive monthly reconciliation process for the regional financials during month-end close.
• Coordinating with global functions for any required adjustments to the financials, variance analysis and always maintaining supporting accounting documentation.
• Supporting entity setup and opening of bank accounts.
• Supporting reconciliation of all sorts to align local books with Sage.
• To partner with cross-departmental team and provide relevant financial information required for any business operation.
• Working with Regional Finance Director and other team members for any ad-hoc project as may be required.

Qualifications and Skills

• CA/CPA or equivalent professional qualification.
• +5 years in areas like accounting, audits or taxation in a global scope.
• +3 years of audit experience from management accounting or audit firm.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Customer service skills.
• Excellent Excel skills is a must,
• Experience working in Sage accounting software preferred.