Accounts Reconciliation Specialist, Global Finance Delivery

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Job Description:

The Accounts Reconciliation Specialist is responsible for managing monthly and quarterly balance sheet and bank reconciliations, investigating and resolving complex reconciling items, and ensuring accurate financial records and compliance with enterprise standards. This role also supports control enhancement initiatives and drives process improvement and automation efforts in partnership with IT and key stakeholders to strengthen the integrity of financial reporting and audit readiness.

Major Accountabilities:

• Manage monthly and quarterly balance sheet and bank reconciliations with high accuracy and timely completion, ensuring comprehensive supporting documentation and compliance with enterprise standards

• Investigate and resolve complex reconciling items and unexplained variances across multiple data sources and systems

• Perform detailed variance analysis and maintain complete supporting documentation to ensure compliance with enterprise standards

• Support control enhancement, audit preparation, and year-end close activities

• Partner with Finance, Controllership, IT, and audit teams to drive process improvement and automation initiatives

• Test and implement ERP or process enhancements to improve efficiency and standardization

• Provide primary reconciliation authority and support to internal and external auditors with evidence requests and regulatory queries

• Develop and implement corrective action plans to address reconciling items and control weaknesses

• Lead standardization and governance adherence across GFD reconciliation teams

Required Skillset and Qualification:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field

• 4–6 years of accounting/finance experience

• Minimum 2 years in reconciliation, general ledger, or related record-to-report activities

• Strong knowledge of reconciliations, financial reporting, and general ledger accounting

• Working knowledge of GAAP/IFRS, internal controls, and audit documentation requirements

• Advanced Excel skills, including complex data analysis and ideally macros/VBA

• Familiarity with ERP/accounting systems (SAP or Oracle)

• Experience with analytics/visualization tools (Power BI or Tableau)

• CPA, ACCA, or equivalent designation (in-progress or complete certification) preferred

Job Category:

Finance

Posting End Date:

12/08/2026