GL Accountant

Your Job

We are looking for motivated and self-driven candidates that can manage multiple responsibilities, set priorities for themselves, meet deadlines, and who seek to improve processes along the way. If you are still growing in your accounting career, we have meaningful work to do and opportunities to contribute! This position will work across the global organization in a competitive atmosphere. Working effectively with cross-functional teams, embracing change, and being adaptable is crucial for success.

Our Team

You will be part of a diverse contribution motivated team, working within a culture that encourages entrepreneurship and challenge with respect and humility to deliver superior results for our internal and external customers.

What You Will Do

• Where you'll manage fixed assets, stockroom operations, and leases. You'll also collaborate on projects with our operations team, contributing to continuous improvements.
• Perform regular General Ledger (GL) processes to ensure accurate and timely posting to the ledger, variance analysis, Balance Sheet account analysis & reconciliation.
• Take ownership of key accounting tasks by using critical thinking to ensure accurate reconciliations, month-end close processes, and partner with the accounting team.
• Analyze the financial statements for discrepancies and provide commentary for forecast vs actual, standard vs actual & month over month change in account balances.
• Provide ad hoc information, support and analysis to other departments (Tax, Audit, HR, etc.).
• Seek and share knowledge, create value by identifying opportunities for process improvement and standardization, challenge the status quo.
• Work with external auditors and support annual audit process; investigate and resolve audit findings, account discrepancies, and issues of noncompliance.
• Work across regions and capabilities to understand local regulations to help improve their processes.

Your Job

We are looking for motivated and self-driven candidates that can manage multiple responsibilities, set priorities for themselves, meet deadlines, and who seek to improve processes along the way. If you are still growing in your accounting career, we have meaningful work to do and opportunities to contribute! This position will work across the global organization in a competitive atmosphere. Working effectively with cross-functional teams, embracing change, and being adaptable is crucial for success.

Our Team

You will be part of a diverse contribution motivated team, working within a culture that encourages entrepreneurship and challenge with respect and humility to deliver superior results for our internal and external customers.

What You Will Do

• Where you'll manage fixed assets, stockroom operations, and leases. You'll also collaborate on projects with our operations team, contributing to continuous improvements.
• Perform regular General Ledger (GL) processes to ensure accurate and timely posting to the ledger, variance analysis, Balance Sheet account analysis & reconciliation.
• Take ownership of key accounting tasks by using critical thinking to ensure accurate reconciliations, month-end close processes, and partner with the accounting team.
• Analyze the financial statements for discrepancies and provide commentary for forecast vs actual, standard vs actual & month over month change in account balances.
• Provide ad hoc information, support and analysis to other departments (Tax, Audit, HR, etc.).
• Seek and share knowledge, create value by identifying opportunities for process improvement and standardization, challenge the status quo.
• Work with external auditors and support annual audit process; investigate and resolve audit findings, account discrepancies, and issues of noncompliance.
• Work across regions and capabilities to understand local regulations to help improve their processes.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Strong attention to detail and accuracy, excellent communication, and teamwork skills.
• Strong experience in accounting including General Ledger processes - Journal Entries, Intercompany Transactions, Account Reconciliations, Variance Analysis and supporting Month-End close.
• Experience with Microsoft Office 365 with MS Excel skills (spreadsheet creation/editing, pivot tables, data manipulation/analysis and formula creation).
• Be pro-active.
• Proficient in English.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance.
• Progressive accounting experience.
• Experience evaluating large data sets from multiple sources and providing analysis.
• Hands-on experience with ERP & accounting sub-systems.
• Experience in Microsoft Power Apps & Power BI.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation ranges provided for a position are estimated based on available market data. The actual minimum and maximum may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Guardian Glass is one of the world's largest manufacturers of float, value-added and fabricated glass products and solutions. We produce high-performance glass for architectural, residential, interior, transportation and technical glass applications. You'll find our glass in homes, offices and cars and in some of the world's most iconic projects.
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