paymentology - Financial Accountant

• Financial Close & Reporting • · Lead the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes for assigned markets, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting. • · Prepare and post journal entries, accruals, prepayments, and other accounting adjustments. • · Review and analyse profit and loss accounts and balance sheet movements. • · Ensure compliance with group accounting policies and local statutory requirements. • · Support the preparation of management reporting packages and financial analyses. • · Own and maintain balance sheet integrity through timely and accurate reconciliations. Investigate and resolve reconciling items and unusual transactions. • · Ensure compliance with internal controls, accounting policies, and governance requirements. • · Manage indirect tax compliance activities, including VAT/GST and other local tax filings. • · Support corporate income tax compliance, tax provisioning, and reporting requirements. Liaise with internal tax teams and external advisors to ensure compliance with local regulations. • · Support tax audits and regulatory inquiries. • · Manage legal entity transfer pricing recharge processes in line with group policies. • · Prepare and post intercompany charges and reconciliations. • · Resolve intercompany discrepancies and support transfer pricing documentation requirements. • Statutory Accounting & Audit management • · Prepare annual statutory financial statements and supporting disclosures for assigned legal entities. • · Coordinate local statutory filing requirements and ensure compliance with regulatory deadlines. • · Act as a key contact for external auditors and internal audit teams. Prepare audit schedules, supporting documentation, and responses to audit requests. • · Coordinate local and group audit activities and ensure timely issue resolution. • Business Partnering • · Collaborate closely with Commercial Finance to understand business performance and accounting impacts. • · Partner with Payroll, AP, AR, Treasury, Tax, and other finance functions to ensure completeness and accuracy of financial data. • · Provide accounting guidance and support to stakeholders across the business. • · Build effective relationships with external advisors, auditors, and service providers. • Process Improvement & Automation • · Continuously identify opportunities to improve financial processes, controls, and reporting efficiency. • · Drive automation initiatives to reduce manual activities and improve data quality. • · Support finance transformation projects and system enhancements. • · Promote best practices and standardisation across markets and entities.