Manager, Accounting Statutory Reporting

Manager, Statutory Reporting

At World Kinect, our employees are the key to our global success. We are industry leaders due to the innumerable talents of our approximately 5000 strong professional team. Our people thrive in an entrepreneurial and culturally-diverse environment, where innovative thinking, collaboration and efficient execution are highly valued. Our high-performance culture is what allows us to drive sustained growth. Stronger together, we promote an environment where individuals can thrive.

The Manager, Statutory Reporting within the Accounting team will be responsible for the timely filing of statutory financial statements of the company. The Manager will be working with a global team to comply with regulations across different countries.

This position is key to comply with statutory reporting in different countries and will be responsible to oversee the preparation of financial statements with the support of different teams within WKC and coordinate with the corresponding auditors. A key part of the responsibility includes ensuring the transactions are captured and disclosed properly in the statutory financials in accordance with GAAP applicable in the countries where the WKC operates. Therefore, the Manager will be responsible to conclude what are the necessary adjustments needed to comply with local requirements.

Responsibilities :

• Oversee the preparation of annual financial statements identifying differences between US GAAP and local accounting standards
• Reviewing supporting schedules for account balances (including but not limited to debt, intercompany, investments, and intangibles)
• Coordinate with other areas audit requests
• Conclude which are the required disclosures that should be included in the financial statements based on the deep understanding of the businesses and the local requirements
• Liaison with internal auditors
• Responsible to manage the external audit and manage the audit progress
• Identifying and implementing process improvement
• Assess local accounting requirements and the existing processes to identify gaps and areas of improvements. Liaison with Tax and Treasury to ensure that the accounting process complies with local requirements.
• Responsible to enhance the statutory accounting and reporting process

Experience required for position :

World Kinect is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.