Accounting Manager

AMCOL MİNERAL MADENCİLİK SANAYİ VE TİCARET A.Ş

We are Minerals Technologies. We’ve been delivering solutions that enhance the essentials of daily life for people and communities around the world for more than 30 years.

Putting people at the center of everything we do—working safely, communicating openly, and managing our resources and businesses responsibly.

Our reputation as a global leader is built on our deep knowledge, operational excellence, and the high performance of our products. Customers around the world rely on our expertise in four core technologies: crystal engineering, functional additives, engineered blends, and particle surface modifications.

And today, solving our customers’ challenges continues to inspire our innovation and fuel our growth.

OVERALL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Accounting Manager is responsible for providing business unit general accounting and internal control support in line with USGAAP, including preparation and posting of journal entries, maintenance of balance sheet accounts, completion of the month end closing transactions/procedures and ensuring that the general ledger account balances and trial balances are appropriately reconciled.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for preparation and posting of journal entries

• Creation, distribution and maintenance of standard GL, FA, Intercompany Transaction reports to corporate and business units.

• Ensuring data integrity and preparing financial information as required, in accordance with expected accuracy, timeliness and accessibility.

• Performing the periodic close of general ledger which includes maintaining the close schedule, scheduling of subsystem feeds, making materiality decisions on closing entries and communicating to customers when the monthly trial balance is finalized.

• Maintaining accountability for the standard chart of accounts and for the preparation of account analysis/reconciliations on a timely basis.

• Responsible for calculation deferred tax

• Compilation of annual plan (annual budget process)

• Reconciliation and consolidation of results into HFM (Reporting package)

• Handling internal and external audits

• Preferably knowledge on Oracle General Ledger

• Ensuring company Operational Excellence targets are achieved.

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or related fields and having CPA certificate

• Minimum 5 years of working experience in accounting, finance. 

• Accounting qualification is preferable or demonstration of experience working in an international manufacturing company

• Good understanding of financial controls and local GAAP. Knowledge of US GAAP and Sarbanes-Oxley Standards and standard costing methods.  

• Experience with Oracle and HFM or other ERP/Consolidation system.  Not essential but experience with Business Objects

• Male candidates having completed their military service

• No travel restriction domestically and internationally.  Must be willing to work diligently during peak work periods, e.g., budgets, ends of quarters, monthly, close periods, acquisitions, etc.

• Based in Istanbul, preferably in Asia side.

      Skills & Abilities:

Excellent command of written and spoken English. Self-directed and confident.  Must have the ability to work effectively with different cultures and business climates and to work remotely from the locations being serviced.  Must be able to work well across reporting relationships, geographies and functions, in a matrix arrangement (across solid and dotted lines).  Must have good computer skills especially on Microsoft office applications.  Team player, entrepreneurial and ability to work on own direction.  Ability to work under pressure ensuring timeliness and accuracy.

Physical & Mental

Must be able to withstand the physical pressures of an office environment, e.g., standing, walking, climbing steps, sitting, as well as periodic visits to company plants and customer operations, e.g., dusty, dirty industrial environment.  

Working Relationships

Internal: Business Unit Controllers, Manufacturing Managers, Corporate Finance and Internal Audit

External:    External auditors based in Turkey , Customers