Trafigura - Senior Analyst - Accounting

Experience, Knowledge and Skills:

- Chartered Accountant / post-graduation accounting qualification

- 3+ Years of relevant experience

- Strong communication skills

- Self-driven and able to take end-to-end ownership

- Keen to question and challenge the existing processes with a view of creating reporting efficiencies and improvements.

- Can work with multiple data sets, various systems and excel

- Eager to take up fresh challenges and support the team wherever required

- Comfortable to work with non-accounting teams for regular activities and projects

Key Responsibilities:

- Accounting and Ledger Control

- Provide and support input into the end-to-end financial statement close process within agreed deadlines including but not limited to revenue recognition checks, stock verification and reporting to senior management, and reconciliation of various P&L and Balance sheet GLs to source documents

- Ensuring that transaction level information have the backup of agreements and other source documents and is correct and complete.

- Ensure strong control framework by implementing and maintaining effective internal controls

- Address ad hoc requests from various stakeholders and counterparts like tax, consolidation and regional accounting teams

- Coordinate with multiple teams on matters relating to intercompany settlements, transfer pricing, legal, compliance

- Gain a strong understanding of systems in terms of origination of data and its impact on financial statement close process.

Audit:

- Liaise with external auditors during the group & statutory audits

- Coordinate with various functions to provide auditable support & evidence to external auditors

- Prepare disclosure schedules and audit documentation

Change Management:

- Drive change projects to support any accounting policy changes or new reporting requirements for the legal entities in scope

- Challenge the current processes for improvement and constantly review processes for efficiencies

- Steer a wide variety of projects in the transformation of the GL systems from the design, functional requirements and testing to supporting implementation

Key Relationships:

- Business Controllers

- Deals Desk (Product Control team)

- Operations /Chartering (logistics)

- Trade Finance

- Treasury and Bank reconciliation

- External Audit teams