Perform General Ledger functions; assure accuracy, timeliness, and conformity with professional accounting standards and best practices in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)
- Identify, interpret and analyze potential accounting risks and issues
- Research and analyze accounting transactions and contracts
- Identify and execute internal controls, SOX compliance and financial procedures
- Partner with Finance to determine accounting implications of transactions and perform analytical analyses to utilize when making all material business decisions
- Assist with internal and external financial reporting - including analyzing consolidated results, drafting SEC documents and management review reports, ensuring quality, and administering strict timeline
- Evaluate current accounting practices and policies and drive continuous improvement
- Research and interpret new accounting standards and brainstorm how each applies to GM as well as comply with external 10-Q/10-K reporting requirements
- Provides direction to a team of individuals with similar functional responsibility
**Additional Job Description**
The Team Lead position is a subset of the Senior Analyst role and includes additional responsibilities including the following: ensuring finance and accounting work product is correctly and timely executed, follows adequate internal controls, and serves as a repository of expertise in their functional area.
Specific duties related to this position include, but are not limited to, the following:
Reviewing work product of Analysts (all levels - including Senior Analysts not designated Team Leads) including journal entries, financial schedules, account reconciliations, and other submissions (i.e.
reports)this will not include final review of items considered to be High Risk or those designated as needing Supervisor/Management review;
Tracking hour-by-hour progress of the Month/Quarter/Year end close processes and providing regular updates to team Supervisors and Managers;
Providing feedback to Analysts on their work product as well as assisting them through any issues;
Delivering assessments of Analyst capabilities to the appropriate Leadership Team Members;
Review of data in intercompany systems;
Work on Global Intercompany Transformation Projects;
Developing deep expertise in the area being supported; includes willingness to work with Global teams to enhance knowledge as well as study of GM Policies & Procedures and other external sources.
The primary differences between this position and that designated as Supervisor are as follows:
Although the Team Lead will have responsibility for review of work product, this will not include high risk items that require a higher level of review;
The Team Lead will have no direct responsibility over the career management of the Analysts whose work product they assess.
For example, they would not take part in any of the following reviews:
CAP assessments
Probationary period assessments
PIP assessments
HRM committee meetings
Their feedback on quality of work product directly to the Analyst's direct leader will contribute to the conversations/assessments, however.
In some cases, the Team Lead will still have Senior Analyst responsibilities, such as:
- Responsible for operationally executing and supporting from GL perspective:
- Monthly closing and Reporting as per US GAAP/Local GAAP
- Account reconciliation excellence
- Annual closing as per US GAAP/Local GAAP
- IAS/IAR verification
- Create Journal Entries based on financial information;
- Produce schedules, reports, analysis, and other work-product as required.
They also must comply with overall requirements for a Senior Analyst as follows:
- Ensures compliance with GM Corporate policies and external regulatory requirements;
- Supports internal and external audits
- Interacts with internal/external related parties (impacted Business Units, Global Controller's Team, Global Finance Teams, etc.
);
- Has strong control focus - brings any issues (accounting or control related) forward immediately;
- Can present to Senior Leadership and able to consolidate information in a clear and understandable matter;
- Self-starter and able to accomplish assigned tasks with minimum supervision;
- Has a strong focus on process improvements to drive quality accounting and compliance
- Frequent contact with others outside of work group to accomplish tasks
- Leading Special Projects (including LEAN/Six Sigma activities)
**Important: This is for mid shift on non-MEC (3pm-12mn), night shift for MEC.
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