Job Description: Data Reconciliation Specialist
Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
In the current dynamic of real reporting to authorities, the main focus of this role is to ensure data between systems flows in a timely and accurate manner. This includes, but is not limited to, managing the reconciliation process between systems, raising issues found to the corresponding teams, following up on actions, and ensuring visibility to the main stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform weekly reconciliations of real reporting to the authorities across LAM (e.g., Sales, purchasing).
- Investigate, raise issues, and resolve discrepancies found in the reconciliation process.
- Promote and ensure that automation projects are being implemented to guarantee the process is done in the most efficient way.
- Maintain constant and open communication with the teams involved in the different parts of the process to support a fast issue-solving mindset.
- Manage the tasks under the standard established procedures.
- Provide periodic visibility to main stakeholders.
- Raise escalation on time.
Key Relationships:
- Regional Accounting and Taxes teams
- Local Accounting and Taxes teams
- External taxes partner
- GBS teams
- Tech team
- FDs
- Channels’ operational teams
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Understanding of accounting matters, quick problem-solving skills, and strong collaboration with other finance and non-finance teams.
- Ability to be adaptable, flexible, and deal with ambiguity in an ever-changing environment while maintaining a positive attitude and working collaboratively within the team.
- Deadline-driven, results-oriented, highly responsible, and accountable with excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Extremely proactive, strong initiative, self-motivated. High integrity, ethics, strong values, excellent organizational skills, detail-oriented, and a high degree of accuracy.
- Strong accounting and analytical skills.
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
- 2+ years of experience in Accounting and/or Finance.
- Fluency in written & spoken English.
- Proficient in computer skills (MS-Office).
- SAP experience preferred.