Senior Accountant
Ball Corporation
Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminium packaging. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe!
Ball is thrilled to receive Newsweek's 2023 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace award! As a sustainable product leader, we have over 16,000 global team members. From endlessly recyclable aluminum cans, and cups, to aerosol bottles, our goal is to contribute to a better community, society, and world.
Position overview:
Responsible for daily and month/quarter-end close activities. Provides accounting support that could include but is not limited to; fixed assets, leases, royalties, intercompany , professional fees, and general accounting.
Key responsibilities include:
• Prepares journal entries from source documentation. This may include, but is not limited to, performing and reviewing calculations prepared by others, summarizing source data, evaluating reliability of source data and verifying account coding.
• Prepares monthly or quarterly balance sheet reconciliations in accordance with corporate policy. Reconciliations agree to the source ledger, have a clear explanation of what makes up the balance and any unidentified differences are resolved in a timely fashion.
• Tasks could include but are not limited to; verifies, and requests invoices for charges to international licensees, joint ventures and other Ball operations and records associated journal entries as required, responsible for all aspects of process for intercompany balancing, responsible for the professional services fee which includes monthly accruals based on department budget and creating any necessary true ups, prepares all necessary accruals and amortization for prep aids and allocations, responsible for accounting and analysis for leased property and equipment including entries for deferred rent, completes Lease Versus Purchase Analysis, assists in the setup of new projects from approved Authorization for Expenditures, capitalized interest calculation, provides data for external reporting.
• Able to investigate and propose an approach for resolving issues or accounting around new items.
• Viewed as a subject matter expert on their accounting processes, and is sought after to provide assistance and resolution on accounting for new items and questions from multiple departments and levels.
• Meets tight deadlines consistently and reliably, and is responsible for communicating any deadlines that may be missed to immediate supervisor in a timely manner.
• Maintains process documentation and updates the documentation as processes change.
• Able to navigate and use ERP and other company systems.
• Responds to internal, external and/or audit inquiries.
What are we looking for?
• Broad training in a related professional field acquired through college level education.
• Job related experience for 3 years minimum.
• Working knowledge of the following areas: accounting principles, practices, nomenclature, procedures, advanced accounting, excel, word, JDE preferred, Hyperion preferred., fixed assets accounting principles
• Ability to apply independent evaluation, selection, and substantial adaptation and modification of standard accounting techniques, procedures, and criteria.
• Problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Microsoft office (advanced Excel).
• Fluent in both written and spoken English.
Ball Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation.
When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 16,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminium cans, cups to aerosol bottles solutions that enable our customers to contribute to a better world.
Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging. Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.
Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.
No agencies please.
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