Entity Controller

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How you’ll make an impact

The General Ledger (GL) teams are organized by region, with teams for America, Europe, and Asia based in Langley. This position is part of the America GL team. The core purpose of this role is to support the accounting for our principal US operating companies and our US-based global technology business. As a member of the Finance team, you will play a crucial part in understanding the accounting, business, and operations, including analyzing and explaining P & L and balance sheet variances in detail. This role will report to the Finance Manager, Accounting.

Your role in action

• Manage month, quarter, and year-end timetable, ensuring bottlenecks are resolved and escalating issues as appropriate, including thorough review of trial balance provided by the BPO, detailed revenue, cost of revenue, operating expense and balance sheet variance and trend analyses.
• Collaborate with the outsourced BPO partner and provide support to the team to achieve agreed objectives.
• Responsible for general ledger accounting for complex transactions within Travelport Americas, directing the functional work of other team members as appropriate.
• Capable of deputizing for Finance Manager when required.
• Review, approve and/or prepare manual journal entries required to complete month-end and annual accounts and to ensure the accuracy and timely posting of entries from sub-ledgers and other entry sources.
• Perform analytical review during month-end close to identify and correct any accounting issues as they occur.
• Ensure all accruals, prepayments and any other adjusting entries are booked as necessary along with appropriate supporting documentation.
• Review, approve and/or prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations for all accounts.
• Ensure control accounts are analyzed and cleared monthly.
• Review, approve and/or prepare monthly legal entity reporting packs providing Balance Sheet and P & L analysis and supporting commentary.
• Produce information required by external auditors, including that referred to in prepared-by-client schedules, and any other accounting documentation to satisfy audit requirements.
• Provide accurate financial accounting information and analysis to other interested parties including decision support, tax, controllership, and senior management.
• Responsible for key control processes and compliance as it relates to controls assigned to these areas.
• Review and improve processes.
• Coordinate prepared-by-client list requests to the external audit timetable, working with the BPO to provide required documentation and acting as the key point of contact for auditor queries.
• Prepare financial statements of any legal entity and reply to audit questions.
• Respond promptly to all audit questions and items on the PBC list provided by the auditors.

Could this be you?

• Qualified or QBE accountant.
• Practical and proven accounting experience (4+ years) in a similar large multinational organization.
• High level of computer literacy including Excel spreadsheets (pivot tables, VLOOKUPS, etc.), word processing (Microsoft), and experience with automated accounting systems.
• Oracle experience highly desirable.
• Exposure to US GAAP and SoX desirable, but not a requirement.
• Sound commercial awareness.
• Ability to work autonomously to deliver well-defined outputs.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, both verbal and written, and the ability to work collaboratively with multiple organizations, across time-zones, both inside and outside of Travelport.
• Strong team-player, able to demonstrate flexibility and resilience.
• Comfortable dealing with change, and a desire to continually improve processes.

Benefits

We offer a package that includes 25 days annual leave per annum, a hybrid working model, pension contribution, private medical, life assurance and personal travel insurance. All employees are eligible to participate in our bonus program, subject to individual and company performance. We are an equal opportunities employer and will consider all qualified applicants purely on their skills and abilities. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation, if needed.