Analyst- International Accounting & Reporting

Job Summary

The International Accounting & Reporting analyst drives continuous improvement in quality, efficiency and controls of accounting and reporting for the international business of IDEXX, primarily for the Asia Pacific region.

The individual in this role will perform accounting tasks for several legal entities in the region and work closely with Corporate Accounting as well as the Accounting Controllers in the region.

The analyst researches the deliverables from our accounting and reporting process to meet expectations for business (processes and management reporting/analysis), compliance with accounting standards (US GAAP and local GAAP) and transfer pricing/ tax compliance.

The analyst supports the preparation of process documentation and review of (SOX) controls to ensure there is an adequate control framework. The analyst tracks control weaknesses, makes recommendations, support implementation of improvements in a timely manner.

The International Accounting & Reporting analyst reports to the Senior Controller International, with a dotted line reporting to the local Accounting Controller based in Singapore.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Financial Accounting

• Perform inventory reconciliations and accounting for valuation and cut-off adjustments
• Perform accounting for IDEXX Singapore and IDEXX Philippines
• Prepare journal entries for Asia Pacific region that can be centralized
• Prepare and maintain SOX documentation
• Review balance sheet account reconciliations

Tax compliance & Transfer pricing

• Prepare intercompany transactions in line with transfer pricing structure
• Liaise with Operations and Tax department to ensure up-to-date and complete documentation in support of all intercompany transactions.
• Collaborate with global Tax and Corporate Accounting to optimize intercompany processes
• Support analysis of tax compliance requirements

External reporting

• Review US GAAP -> local GAAP bridges legal entities international where needed
• Support the accounting of investment, intangibles and equity accounting.
• Follow up on requests for consolidated information for the region (financial and ESG)
• Research new regulations for accounting and reporting

Process improvement

• Participate in SAP projects by reviewing functionality and perform user testing.
• Support Controller International to drive the roadmap for process and control improvements.
• Review and provide guidance to other functions on documents required for all ‘Order to Cash’, ‘procure to pay’ and ‘record to report’ and other process cycles.
• Drive ongoing improvements to processes and controls to obtain documents required for accounting, reporting and tax compliance, and for applicable regional and global standardization.

COMPETENCIES

• Effectively communicates accounting, reporting and internal controls, issues, and risks.
• Comfortable and effective with evolving and changing priorities and challenges, sees change as opportunity for learning and improvement.
• Structured and organized, data oriented, analyze trends, desire to solve problems and make improvements
• Emotional maturity, emotional intelligence, humility, willingness to learn and take and receive feedback constructively.
• Exhibit the highest standards of ethics and integrity.
• Self-motivated and results driven, flexible to work additional hours as needed to meet deadlines
• Works well with others, comfortable around diverse work groups, cultures and countries, builds relationships through consultation, influence, and collaboration, is an effective team player.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum 5 years relevant work experience with US multi-national companies
• Bachelor degree in Finance, Accounting, Tax preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, effective communicator cross culturally
• Strong working knowledge of SAP
• Able to use software tools (power BI, Tableau) to analyze large datasets from SAP ERP
• Up-to-date professional knowledge on tax compliance and statutory reporting
• Competent working with Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Occasional business travel may be needed

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