Senior Accountant

This position performs as a lead accountant for several business units and / or legal entitles for a regional office of a global leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods.

Primary Responsibilities / Essential Functions

• Analyzes and Reviews various daily physical and futures trading activities in relation to completing accurate Daily P&L estimates for our various trading and operating activities.
• Completes Daily P&L estimate calculations for various trade and operating activities.
• Prepares and reviews daily positions reports and supporting details for merchandisers and management.
• Performs quantity reconciliations for trading activities.
• Reviews and approves accounting journal entries for trading activities and certain operating activities.
• Prepares and / or reviews monthly financial statements and supporting schedules for local management for multiple business units and / or legal entities
• Prepares and / or reviews monthly reporting for global consolidation along with required comments and analysis for assigned business units and / or legal entities
• Prepares and / or reviews monthly budget vs. actual variance reporting along with required comments and analysis
• Reconciles or reviews reconcilements for all accounts within business units general ledger
• Responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the general ledger for the assigned business units and / or legal entities
• Reviews general ledger (G / L) accounts and compares them with various source documents to identify discrepancies and / or errors / omissions in the accounts payable / journal entry process
• Communicates with the other LDC offices or outside counterparties to resolve discrepancies
• Reviews and posts journal entries to reconcile G / L accounts with source documents
• Reviews work of any subordinates
• Coordinates industry cost budget preparation and performs analysis with commentary
• Support the year-end and mid-year audits performed by external auditors by gathering and preparing supporting documents and schedules per their information requests
• Follows company accounting policies and ensures they are enforced
• Perform adhoc requests as given by managers.
• Other duties as assigned

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What We Offer

We provide a dynamic and stimulating international environment which will stretch and develop your abilities and channel your skills and expertise with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

Diversity & Inclusion

LDC is driven by a set of shared values and high ethical standards with diversity and inclusion being part of our DNA. LDC is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity equity and inclusion.

LDC encourages diversity supports local communities and environmental initiatives. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.

Equal employment opportunity (EEO)

Louis Dreyfus Company provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.

Sustainability

Sustainable value is at the heart of our purpose as a company.

We are passionate about creating fair and sustainable value both for our business and for other value chain stakeholders : our people our business partners the communities we touch and the environment around us

Remote Work : No

Employment Type : Full-time

Key Skills

General Ledger Reconciliation,Accounting Software,Account Analysis,GAAP,Journal Entries,QuickBooks,General Ledger Accounting,Accounting,Account Reconciliation,SOX,Microsoft Dynamics GP,NetSuite

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1