The Senior Accounting Analyst ensures accurate and timely financial reporting by managing key accounting activities, including reconciliations, import transactions, expenses, and monthly close. This role partners with cross-functional teams to resolve discrepancies and maintain compliance with internal controls, SOX, U.S. GAAP, and local accounting standards. Through strong financial analysis and controls, the position helps safeguard the integrity of financial information and supports effective business decisions.
Why This Role Matters
- Protects the integrity and reliability of financial reporting by ensuring transactions, reconciliations, accruals, and provisions are complete, accurate, and recorded in the appropriate period.
- Strengthens compliance with internal controls, SOX requirements, corporate accounting policies, U.S. GAAP, local GAAP, and applicable regulatory requirements.
- Improves operational efficiency by partnering with Logistics, Purchasing, Treasury, Accounts Payable, and other teams to resolve discrepancies and enhance accounting processes.
What You Will Do
- Validate and accurately record accounting transactions related to import purchases in SONDA and SAP, including reviewing supporting documentation, aging reports, and provisions.
- Perform bank and general ledger account reconciliations, analyze balance sheet accounts, investigate unusual or aged items, and coordinate the timely resolution of discrepancies.
- Review employee travel expenses in Concur, verifying policy compliance, approvals, supporting documentation, expense classifications, accounting entries, and applicable VAT treatment.
- Support the monthly financial close by reviewing journal entries, accruals, provisions, reconciliations, and account movements, while helping prepare financial reports and variance explanations.
- Manage the accounting treatment and amortization of prepaid expenses, advance payments, intangible assets, and deferred charges in accordance with established accounting standards and policies.
- Support internal and external audits, maintain compliance with accounting and control requirements, and identify opportunities to standardize, automate, and improve accounting processes.
What We’re Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
- Two to three years of experience in accounting or a similar financial role, with knowledge of U.S. GAAP and local accounting standards.
- Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience analyzing complex financial data; familiarity with SAP, SONDA, or Concur is beneficial.
- Intermediate English proficiency, strong analytical and organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to communicate accounting matters effectively across functions.
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Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs about 63,000 people and manufactures its products in 48 facilities in 19 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to www.goodyear.com/corporate
Goodyear is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.
