OxyChem General Ledger Senior Accountant at OC2 Occidental Chemical Corporation — Dallas, TX

This position is a key player in the General Ledger group and requires a business‐curious mindset. It allows the candidate to drive financial reporting, support continuous process improvement, and serve as a technical and leadership resource within the accounting team in Dallas, TX.

Essential Job Duties:

• Prepare complex Balance Sheet reconciliations and prepare monthly accounting journal entries, including intercompany.
• Perform in-depth financial statements and variance analysis.
• Assist in performing research to ensure compliance with GAAP and other reporting requirements.
• Provide support for internal audits, external audits, government and tax reporting
• Evaluate the accuracy and reliability of accounting data, effectiveness of existing accounting procedures and controls, and make recommendations for improvement.
• Develop, recommend, and implement accounting practices to promote consistency, application of best practices, task automation, and efficiencies.
• Ensure transactions are properly supported, and are in accordance with GAAP, SOX, internal controls and other regulatory requirements.
• Train or mentor junior team members.
• Ad-hoc reporting, and special projects as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance (with a minimum 18 hours of Accounting)
• 3+ years of professional accounting experience.
• Strong knowledge of GAAP, GAAS and financial reporting requirements.
• Experience with large ERP systems (SAP S/4 Hana preferred) and advanced proficiency in Excel.
• Experience using OneStream or similar corporate consolidation reporting system.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines with the ability to work extended hours during close and key reporting deadlines.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills to identify issues and deal with them directly.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present financial information clearly to nonfinance stakeholders and accounting management.
• Experience in a Sox-compliant environment.
• Independent self-starter, with a growth mindset that seeks learnings opportunities to drive change by embracing digital transformation and innovatively enhance accounting processes.

Additional Desired Qualifications:

• Public accounting experience preferred.
• Manufacturing experience preferred.
• MBA, CPA or CPA eligibility preferred.
• Ability to adapt quickly and maintain flexibility with regards to ad-hoc project, and areas of responsibility.
• Experience with intercompany transactions and reconciliations.
• Experience with IBM Planning Analytics (preferred), SQL, Tableau, Power BI or similar BI/data tool.
• Experience with continuous improvement by reducing recurring errors, rework and redundancies.
• Effective cross-functional collaboration skills with experience partnering with FP&A, Internal Audit, and other business groups.
• Exposure to emerging technologies used to enhance accounting processes, close efficiency, or financial analysis i.e., AI-enabled tools or analytics.

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