As Senior Accountant - External Reporting, you will report directly to Senior Manager of External Reporting, combines strong accounting fundamentals with the ability to work efficiently in spreadsheets, perform data analysis, and manage deadlines. You should be comfortable reading, analyzing and preparing financial statements and footnotes, and should have a general understanding of the impact of our disclosures to investors. Additionally, you should have strong communication skills, be able to articulate accounting concepts to non-technical people.
Financial Reporting
- Prepare and support the completion of quarterly and annual filings
- Prepare consolidated financial statements and full set of footnote disclosures, including maintaining disclosure checklist
- Draft MD&A and work with investor relations/FP&A to coordinate congruence to earnings materials
- Own the trial balance refresh process and Workiva link publishing
- Lead and organize process for gathering required support for disclosures
- Detail review of financial statements including tick & tie, footing, and disclosure proofreading
- Own quarterly flux process with management (internal control process) and auditors (quarterly reviews)
- Main point of contact for audit requests, ensure items are furnished to auditors timely and that tasks are assigned to the correct Solenis employees.
- Clear financial statement comments from auditors and management
- Perform monthly management reporting to private equity ownership
Debt Accounting & Capital Markets Support
- Support accounting and financial reporting related to debt instruments, including term loans, revolving credit facilities, notes, and other financing arrangements.
- Prepare accounting analyses for complex debt modifications, debt extinguishments, refinancings, and other financing transactions.
- Support accounting team and external counsel in preparation of proformas, disclosures, and financials to be included offering documents for refinancing activities and other securities offerings
- Maintain debt amortization schedules and support related footnote disclosures.
- Prepare journal entries for our debt accounting and interest accruals, and perform associated balance sheet reconciliations
Other
- Use Intelligize to perform initial technical accounting research for unique transactions and disclosure benchmarking
- Draft technical accounting memos as needed
- Equity Accounting: Work with HR to monitor equity activity, prepare monthly entries for stock compensation, and prepare diluted earnings per share (EPS) calculations
- Work with internal counsel to manage legal accruals and disclosures
- Serve as administrator for Workiva platform, which includes the operation of internal controls
- Assist in design and implementation of internal controls
- Operate various internal controls surrounding main responsibilities, including management certifications
- Support continuous improvement of the financial reporting control environment.
- Coordinate, take notes, and participate in disclosure committee meetings, material events review, and other meetings with accounting/tax/finance leadership
- Support the implementation of new accounting standards and disclosure requirements.
- Identify opportunities to improve reporting processes via Workiva, Excel, OneStream, SAP, and other tools
- Assist with ad hoc projects with accounting leadership: e.g. regional cash flow review
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance
- 3-5 years of progressive accounting experience
- Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP, financial reporting, and accounting research
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
- Data analysis
- Spreadsheet optimization
- Clean presentation and logical organization
- Lookups, sumifs, pivot tables, and other data summarization formulas
- Strong communication, organizational, and project management skills.
- CPA License or active pursuit of CPA license
This role will be based Hybrid out of our Wilmington Delaware headquarters. #LI-hybrid #LI-DS1
At Solenis, we understand that our greatest asset is our people. That is why we offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits which include medical, dental, vision & 401K, and numerous opportunities for professional growth and development. So, if you are interested in working for a world-class company and enjoy solving complex challenges, whether in the lab or the field, consider joining our team.
