Job Description

Collaborating on innovation challenges, interacting with Industry leaders, attending cross-functional networking events and volunteering for community service activities.

Additional Job Description

Initiate and complete projects to streamline accounting operations via process simplification, standardization and/or automation.

Perform (low risk) manual journal entries and account reconciliation

Participate in GA and Global QA meetings to identify opportunities to streamline/simplify work.  This may be one of below, but not limited to APM Policy review, MJE automation/reduction focused on high effort entries, and global QA tasks standardization

Present the results of the project to GBS Leadership Lead/participate in GBS-wide and GA-wide engagement activities

Collate all existing trackers from different POCs

Understand how the trackers are being updated including pain points and inefficiencies

Create a simplified/centralized dashboard that will reflect the Statutory team metrics

Reduce or minimize the manual effort in updating or tracking the activities (both preparer and leads)

Work with Continuous Improvement team and Stat POC on how to create a dashboard using the available solutions/tools

Lead / participate in engagement activities of GBS and Statutory Reporting

Present the results to GBS Leadership

Create a quick guide how to use, update and navigate the dashboard

Deploy the dashboard to Statutory team

Required skills and competencies:

Basic accounting skills

Microsoft Office Applications (Excel, Powerpoint, etc.)

KNIME or any similar automation tools preferably trained LEAN, Six-sigma trained

Leadership skills (e.g. officer in school or community organizations)

Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills (i.e. with high confidence to present to top management)

Good in problem solving

Qualifications:

Must be a 3rd or 4th year college student of Accountancy, Finance or equivalent, with internship as official undergraduate requirement.

Must have good analytical thinking skills

Must be fluent in English (written and verbal)

Must be willing to work hybrid (onsite and remote)

Must be knowledgeable in Microsoft Excel

Shift: Day

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