Senior Accountant

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- Moody’s Shared Services are the front line professionals including Finance, Technology, Legal, Compliance and Human Resources, that operationally support our business units. Exceptional Shared Services teams are vital to the international success of our business.

Department
- Finance

Role/Responsibilities
- The Senior Accountant works under the direction of their immediate manager to ensure accurate financial statements.
Responsibilities:

- Reviews work performed by staff/intermediate accountants.
- Executes, with limited assistance, the daily procedures for their accounting areas or entities, including communications with the different lines of business, reviewing daily transactions, identifying accounting changes, coordinating with other accounting teams, JVs and affiliates, or outsourced accounting firms, and ensuring timeliness of deliverables.
- Liaises with various departments to obtain accounting transaction support.
- Analytically reviews accounting transaction support for issues.
- Performs detailed transaction analyses to calculate journal entry amounts.
- Records/reviews monthly journal entries based on US & local GAAP.
- Ensures accounting transactions are recorded to the proper chart of accounts (i.e. legal entities, accounts, departments, currencies, etc).
- Prepares/reviews monthly balance sheet reconciliations and identifies and resolves reconciling items.
- Prepares/reviews monthly account variance analyses.
- Applies accounting judgment when calculating journal entry amounts, using the chart of accounts, identifying reconciliation items, reviewing contracts, and performing account analyses; detailed review with direct manager.
- Assists in the identification, research and resolution of operational issues through regular and special analysis to ensure proper accounting.
- Reviews contracts to ensure compliance with Moody’s policies and identify accounting implications; provides feedback to legal or other departments.
- Gathers supporting documentation for internal and external audits and fields related questions.
- Prepares additional account analysis for Internal Audits, External Audits, and ad-hoc requests.
- Prepares/reviews reports for external statutory and regulatory reporting.
- Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications.
- Understands US & local GAAP, internal control policies and Moody’s Global Accounting Policies (MGAP) with respect to their procedures.
- Additional duties/projects as assigned by your manager.

**Qualifications**:

- Must have a bachelor’s degree.
- ACA/ACCA/CPA or equivalent part qualified/qualified is preferable.
- Relevant accounting experience (preferably in a large multi-national company or in a major accounting firm).
- Additional relevant language preferable.
- Intermediate knowledge of local reporting requirements.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office.
- Knowledge of a major financial system (preferably Peoplesoft)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong organizational skills, analytic skills, and attention to details.
- Moody’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.