Senior Financial Analyst-Global Controllership, Architectural

This position is responsible for assisting in the coordination and management of all accounting processes, procedures, and systems to ensure the accurate and timely financial close of the CBG Group. Primary responsibilities include : 1) ensuring facilitation of accurate and reliable consolidated financial statements in accordance with US GAAP and other appropriate worldwide standards; 2) support and promotion of a standard global footprint of financial systems / processes maintained coordinating corporate close responsibilities, balance sheet integrity and analysis, ensuring compliance with Company policies and US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. This position will interact with numerous functional areas, such as Enterprise, SBS, and the Group finance teams, providing exposure to many different areas as well as to senior executives of the global Sherwin-Williams business.

Because this role involves access to confidential financial information, the Company has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and to provide similar protections for its clients and potential investments.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS

CBG Group and Consolidation Close

Monthly Procedures

Assist with Balance Sheet and Income Statement variance analysis

Upload various CBG stats

Throughout the close process, interact with Enterprise FP&A and SBS, and the Group Finance teams, to assure financial statements are timely & accurate

Assist in ad hoc analysis requests from Enterprise, SBS, and the Group finance teams

Assist in the preparation of restate files

Quarterly & Annual Procedures

Assist with Balance Sheet review for Corporate Review

Assist with Quarterly Regional Analytics

Balance Sheet Account Review

Perform periodic Balance Sheet reviews for the respective financial areas of CBG Group

Year Over Year & Current Year vs. Prior Year Trend Analysis

Delinquency Review

Quality Assurance Review

Assist with clean-up of long outstanding reconciling items

Assist with OneStream RCM account reconciliation tool maintenance and status reporting

Ownership of various key controls to ensure the accuracy of financial results and reporting

Provide support for audit requests (internal and external)

Involvement in key company initiatives and various system or process implementations

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

FORMAL EDUCATION : Required :

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance
Preferred :
• MBA

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE :

Required :

Minimum of three years of progressive accounting, finance, or audit experience

Knowledge of US GAAP and / or IFRS

Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel

Excellent attention to detail

Strong analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities

Strong written and oral communication skills

Excellent customer service orientation

Preferred :

MBA

Public accounting experience

Previous experience with Oracle and OneStream

Transactional Lean training

Travel : 10%