**Title**:GL Accountant**
**Type**: Full Time
**Function**: Finance
**Division**: General Business Services
**Location**: Mexico
The General Ledger Accountant within the General Ledger team is responsible for the day-to-day processing of accounting activities and reporting in line with weekly, monthly and annual US GAAP policies and procedures.
She/He may be contributor to the improvement's initiatives generated by other team members within Finance Shared Services center.
**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:
- Perform intracompany payments and all accounting entries associated with them as per the netting and month end closing calendar
- Ensure timely and accurate booking of GL entries in SAP.
- Complex Journal Entries: Prepare, calculate, and post complex journal entries accurately and in a timely manner
- Understand the rationale behind all GL postings, to ensure reasonableness.
- Perform month-end activities as required for US GAAP reporting (opening/closing of SAP modules, inter-company reconciliations, currency revaluations, uploads of SAP results into One Stream, etc.) within a tight timescale.
- Reconcile Intracompany balances during closing and continue the reconciliation after month end closing
- Ensure intracompany transactions are monitored and clean-up is in place whenever is necessary
- Prepare balance sheet accounts reconciliations,
with supporting documentation according to company's standards and within the required time-scale.
- Initiate actions for aged items and work with different stakeholders on clearing and/or write-off
- Participate in transition activities projects as per the Finance Shared Services management requests
- Maintain up-to-date procedure documents in English to satisfy Tenneco's Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.
- Support internal/external audit and Internal Control Office requests
- Ensure compliance with both Corporate and SBU policies & procedures.
- Support Global Finance Process Shared Services function when necessary Part of projects as per the Shared Services needs
**REQUIREMENTS**:
Skills / Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Economics (Accounting, Banks).
- At least 3 years accounting experience within a multinational environment and or shared services center
- Thorough knowledge and understanding of accounting from Trial Balance to P&L;/Balance Sheet, US GAAP is a plus
- Thorough understanding of Polish fiscal requirements for VAT, Corporate Tax and other Polish direct or indirect taxes
- Experience with the SAP ERP system
- Good Microsoft Office skills.
- Ability to work in English
- Hands on and problem solver mindset
- Good communication and time-management skills.
- Tenacious and detail-orientated working style, with a drive to resolve issues.