Job Description

Summary As a Senior Accountant, you'll handle precise financial reporting for our entity in the Kingdom, covering both US GAAP and local GAAP requirements. Your role involves managing income statements, balance sheets, and ensuring compliance with VAT, WHT, corporate tax, and transfer pricing for BD Saudi. You'll support the Country Controller for final approvals on reports and collaborate closely with various finance teams to ensure a streamlined and compliant financial operation.

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About the role

As a Senior Accountant, you'll handle precise financial reporting for our entity in the Kingdom, covering both US GAAP and local GAAP requirements. Your role involves managing income statements, balance sheets, and ensuring compliance with VAT, WHT, corporate tax, and transfer pricing for BD Saudi. You'll support the Country Controller for final approvals on reports and collaborate closely with various finance teams to ensure a streamlined and compliant financial operation.

Main responsibilities will include:

Responsible for the US GAAP reporting and statutory compliance matters of BD Saudi entity.

Ensure that the monthly US GAAP reporting to corporate is on-time and free from material misstatements.

Establish a strong partnership with the FinOps COE Belgium & WSSC Poland, European Consolidation team, BP&A teams.

Drive standardisation and best practices across entities.

Strive towards a simplified month end process across all entities which provides the adequate level of detail for the Finance Manager/business partner to sign off the monthly financial results.

Work together with Finance Leader, Local Finance team and BP&A team to design a simplified review process and reports which will enable the Country Controller to gain comfort and enable sign off on the month end performance.

Identify areas of simplification (e.g. audit process). Work on standardisation of timelines/efficiency. Challenge the status quo and constantly drive for efficiencies and improvements.

Manage all external relationships (auditors and tax).

Responsible for all compliance related matters related to the BD Saudi. Drive continuous improvement in this area through monitoring of activities, assessing compliance risks and implementation of improvements.

Take the lead on various projects within the Entity Finance COE and working with other members of the COE to deliver on objectives.

Have a mindset of COE and work collaboratively with other finance managers in EMEA and share best practices and drive standardisation and implementation.

To provide full support to the Country Controller to enable Country Controller to sign off on USGAAP and local GAAP statutory and all compliance related matters. Full support for dealing with all key external partners (E&Y, tax advisors, pension advisors etc).

About you

Personal Specifications:

A recognised accounting qualification.

Minimum 3 years experience in a similar role.

Audit experience is a big plus.

Local language skills for the entities assigned and fluent in English

Proven track record of working across a Matrix Organisation

Experience in Entity Closures and Entity Openings across multiple jurisdictions advantageous.

Experience in working with Shared Service Centres

Experience in ERP implementations would be advantageous

Proven ability to manage projects

Proven experience working with external auditors, tax advisors and legal advisors

Deep understanding of US GAAP and local GAAP Compliance Requirements

Key Competencies and Leadership Standards Required:

Ability to work cross-functionally to support the organisation through the local leadership team

Ability to learn, drive for results and continuously seek to improve, demonstrating a focus on customers and a collaborative mind-set

Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong networks, using the networks to acquire relevant information and to navigate the internal organisational matrix Team player and ability to build a collaborative culture within own team, motivating others to deliver effectively

Good analytical thinking skills with ability to problem solve and deliver process effectiveness, to drive optimised execution and performance

Click on apply if this sounds like you! Please note that the closing date of this advertisement is Thursday the 16th of November.

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BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world and is advancing the world of health by improving medical discovery, diagnostics and the delivery of care. Headquartered in the United States, BD has a presence in virtually every country and partners with organizations around the world to address some of the most challenging global health issues.

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Primary Work Location SAU Riyadh - Centria Office Building

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