Intercompany Specialist & GL Accountant

Tenneco Inc. is a global manufacturing company, is pioneering global ideas for cleaner air, and smoother, quieter and safer transportation. We're one of the world’s leading designers, manufacturers and distributors of Performance Solutions, DRiV, Powertrain and Clean Air products and technology solutions for diversified markets, including light vehicle, commercial truck, off-highway equipment and the aftermarket.

Tenneco is present in Romania with the Global Shared Services Center in Bucharest and also with the Braking products plant in Ploiesti, Prahova.

Requirements:
• University degree in Accounting or related areas is desired.
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of accounting from Trial Balance to P&L/Balance Sheet
• Working knowledge SAP, US GAAP
• The ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Strong processes orientation, knowledge of process design tools.
• Proactive and strong analytical skills.
• Excel experience is a must.
• English language Advanced level; second language is a plus
• The ability to prioritize, multi-task, and work under pressure.
• Must have a strong work ethic.
• Solid reconciliation skills.
• Understanding and experience in processing entries within accounting packages.
• Good knowledge of Intercompany cycle.
• Available to travel when required

Key responsibilities:

Month-end:
• Ensure timely and accurate booking of GL entries in SAP, understand the rationale behind all GL postings, to ensure reasonableness
• Perform month-end activities as required for F-M reporting (opening/closing of SAP modules, inter-company reconciliations, currency revaluations, uploads of SAP results into One Stream, etc.) within a tight timescale
• Prepare balance sheet and bank reconciliations, with supporting documentation according to F-M standards and within the required time-scale.
• Maintain up-to-date procedure documents in English to satisfy F-M’s Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and support internal/external audit and Internal Control Office requests

During the month:
• Monthly intercompany reconciliation - including downloading the GL from SAP/other ERPs, preparing proper reconciliation, confirming balances with country partners, solving any irregularities within the threshold limit, determining unrealized foreign exchange gains/loss
• Ensuring that all receivables and payables being confirmed are accurate and reflects the reality
• Maintaining the internal database for intercompany partners and make sure that SAP data base is updated accordingly
• Intercompany AR and AP subledgers full reconciliation within the month based on aging
• Ownership on all clean-ups to be performed, including but not limited to: Pre-payments; Reconciliation differences; missing invoices; invoices pending in Unipay; Follow up and escalation to business to minimize risk.
• Coordinate either with business partners to ensure all payments are made in due time.
• Ultimately responsible for IC figures, and ensures that any query is raised in due time, with proper follow-up and full ownership
• Ensuring that all queries are logged and addressed; identifying root causes and resolving promptly in accordance with agreed turnaround times for query resolution.
• Highlighting any non-conformance to Company rules and regulations or to the SLAs.