Subsidiary Accounting Manager at TotalEnergies

Candidate Profile

Candidate must possess the following:

• Qualified Chartered Accountant with 5 Corporate experience of large company

Key competencies required:

• Deciding and initiating
• Leading and supervising
• Presenting and communicating information
• Learning and researching
• Planning and organizing
• Analytical and attention to detail
• High level of integrity and commitment
• Problem solving
• Ability to meet tight deadlines

Technical knowledge or skills required:

• Good knowledge of internal Financial reporting standards (IFRS)
• SAP and MSOffice an advantage
• CaseWare

Activities

The candidate will be responsible for the following:

• Accounting and reporting
• To manage month-end closing procedures and ensure SOX compliance.
• To analyse journal entries on a monthly basis
• To review balance sheet reconciliations on a monthly basis
• To review Intercompany balances on a monthly basis
• To review reconciliations prepared by SSC and investigate any unreconciled items
• To review management accounts
• To review AFS for all subsidiaries
• To reviewe monthly and quarterly financial reporting for accuracy, completeness and consistency
• To ensure and maintain compliance with accounting reporting requirements according to local and international accounting standard and IFRS
• To assist with preparation of board pack presentations
• To review inter-company charges and their billing on a monthly basis
• To manage provision of information for audit (internal and external) requests and liaise with auditors on queries.
• Review monthly departmental performance KPI.
• To assist with adhoc requests from management
• To prepare/review the technical accounting memorandums
• To review central bank reporting submissions for affiliates 

Staff management

• Preparation of accurate KPI’s
• Ensure that the team is motivated, trained and strives to provide highest quality of financial reporting (timing, accuracy and consistency)
• To recruit competent staff
• Monitoring team’s performance on an ongoing basis.
• Managing and coordinating with the Shared Service Centre

Business developments

• To participate in information technology projects that have impact on the results of the company
• To optimize the use of available technology to improve the flow of available information to internal and external stakeholders
• To identify inefficient processes and drive the implementation of more improved accounting processes