Sr. Financial Accounting Analyst

EDF Trading•Houston, TX

About The Position

The Senior Financial Accounting Analyst plays a key role in overseeing a wide range of financial processes including month-end close and reconciliation. The position is responsible for controls, reporting, analyses, and researching and writing memos to support accounting positions. There will be opportunities to collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, implement, operate, and monitor controls and reporting frameworks. These efforts are aimed at continuously improving business processes, ensuring robust process controls, and delivering accurate information and analysis to support management decision-making.

Requirements

A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; Master’s degree preferred.
A minimum of 3-5 years of experience in public accounting and/or the Energy/Trading industry performing accounting, month-end close, and accounts reconciliations – strong candidates will have a background in transactional accounting.
Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to manage messaging to multiple stakeholders.
Possess an above average aptitude for detailed review and accuracy.
IFRS experience preferred.
Experience researching and interpreting technical accounting issues.
Advanced Excel skills, including vlookup, index, and pivot tables.
Experience with data mining and working with large data sets.
Ability to multi-task and deal with time-sensitive projects with competing deadlines and stakeholders.
Experience with financial reporting to a foreign Parent Company preferred.
Experience with financial systems.
Workday experience preferred.
CPA or CPA candidate preferred.
MS Teams and PowerBI experience preferred.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a trading organization is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

Assist and coordinate with other team members on the completion of monthly and annual close process including booking journal entries, BS account reconciliations, analyzing intercompany transactions, prepayments, and preparing consolidations for legal entity financials reported in IFRS.
Assist with the consolidations of financial information as needed for tax and management reporting purposes.
Maintain monthly and yearly financials in IFRS/GAAP.
Monitor and analyze intercompany balances to keep them reconciled.
Prepare balance sheet accounts substantiation /reconciliations, including coordination with teams participating in the production of the financial reporting to ensure adequate documentation, accuracy and completeness of accounts reconciliations.
Review and ensure accounting records are maintained and comply with the Group Accounting policies and IFRS.
Create and or review documentation that meets IFRS standards for audits.
Conduct research and prepare memos to support accounting position.
Assist with regulatory reporting surveys such as Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Identify process/system improvement based on analysis and interpretation of financial data and participate in projects to improve efficiency and reduce operational and financial risks.
Analyze monthly budget vs. actuals for assigned area.
Assist with the preparation of reports and analysis on financial indicators, business performance and other metrics
Actively participate in the implementation, maintenance and improvement of financial and accounting related software and systems.
Prepare reports and analysis on financial indicators, business performance and other metrics.
Maintain relationships with US reporting legal entities that are separately prepared for purposes of facilitating consolidations.