Sr Accounting Specialist

As a Sr Accounting Specialist here at Honeywell, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of our financial records. You will be responsible for managing various accounting functions, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, and financial reporting. Your expertise will help drive process improvements and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

In this role, you will impact the organization by providing accurate financial data and insights that support decision-making and drive financial performance. Your contributions will be essential in maintaining the financial health of the company and ensuring compliance with accounting standards and regulations.

Key Responsibilities

• Key Responsibilities

• Critical activities of the job
• General Accounting 
  • Strong conceptual skills and process excellence on R2R 
  • Need to have expertise in month close & Financial reporting 
  • Prepare month-end journal entries like revaluation, accruals, reclass, recurring JE, etc.,
  • Ensure account recons are delivered with quality with no unexplained items.
  • Ensure compliance & adherence of businesses to defined policies & work procedures
  • Coordinates accounting methods and recommends/implements improvement in departmental procedures.
  • Responsible for the various Period close activities like VAT clearing and Payroll postings, Accrual postings, Reconciliations
  • Exposure to technologies like RPA, Power BI or any such other technical & Analytical tools
  Business Partnership and Process Improvement
  • Ensure a regular connection with key stakeholders in finance and business to deliver US GAAP compliant financials.
  • Provide financial reports, analysis, explanations and advice based on knowledge of financial info, relevant GAAP & supporting SAP systems to SBU/auditors
  • Maintain transparent accounting practices and ensure excellent relationships are maintained with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Support business on new initiatives and finance projects
  • Identify & propose process improvement opportunity
  • Responsible for transitioning Controllership Ops activities for the assigned entities
  • Manage the ad-hoc queries from business / in-country team / other stakeholders.
  • Flexible with Shifts to support business model
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Competencies

Specific knowledge, skills and experience needed to successfully undertake duties of the job

• MBA Finance and Bachelors’ in Finance/Accounting

• 8+ years of overall finance experience.
• Finance or Accounts graduate. Must have worked in finance domain for at least 10+ years
• Technical & System Subject matter expertise

Critical 

• Hands on experience with SAP GL, AR & AP, MM and FA and Data analytics tools
• Worked on consolidation platforms like Hyperion Reporting systems.
• Extensive knowledge of concepts, processes & best practice.
• Good knowledge of US and/or other GAAPs.
• Strong technical and analytical skills.
• Knowledge of R2R concepts, processes, best practices and value addition process initiatives and execution, & Banking domain expertise.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skill are desirous. 

• Flexible with Shift timings to support business model

  
  

  Preferable

• Exposure to managing full close processes for a multi-national group.
• Proactive, ability to use own initiative and take lead to devise creative solutions.
• Having an audit experience will be an added advantage.
• Strong knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
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• Be a Zealot for Growth
• Be Courageous
• Think Big…Then Make It Happen