Associate, Rtr

**MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE**:

- The Associate, RTR will support divisions, legal entities and countries as assigned to gain, over time, a deep understanding of the various business divisions, and the unique attributes of the legal entity, regulatory, and in-country requirements associated with the region.

**MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Service Delivery**:

- In-depth understanding of the objective of all tasks performed and proactively challenge the status quo resulting in fact based recommendations
- Interact proactively with divisions and respective functions to ensure accounting, financial reporting, audit and tax reporting are accomplished within designated timeline
- Timely respond to internal and external inquiries
- Active discussion and best practice sharing with team members
- Developed excel files/macros to simplify work process
- Participate in training and professional development activities to continue to develop Finance capabilities and professional expertise.
- Robust review of task performed by 3rd party outsource service provider staff

**Manage day-to-day activities**:

- Manage annual financial statement submission process and tax schedules preparation
- In charge of statistics submission to government authorities
- RTR accounting task include but not limited to the below:

- Monthly closing tasks (i.e. inventory provision review, GL vs sub-ledger tie-in, analytical review of P&L and BS movement, balance sheet recon review)
- Annual closing tasks
- Ensure business transactions are accurately recorded for any new business initiatives or changes in business processes
- Monitor and correct complex data and information errors
- Identify and resolve exceptions on inventory transactions resulting in out-of-balance
- Address and eliminate data integrity and quality issues over time. Update SOPs and Work Instructions
- Identify process improvements to eliminate “waste” in current process and to create capacity for value-added activities.
- Properly utilize the standard chart of accounts, sustaining the agreed data definitions and usage
- Contribute and participate in overall team initiatives, projects, and activities

**Compliance**
- Ensure all processes, policies and procedures are clearly defined and fully documented
- Ensure compliance with Abbott accounting policies and regulatory requirements
- Sustain minimum effective controls in compliance with SOX, GAAP, IFRS and any other accounting pronouncements and policies required.
- Read, understand, and execute on the policies and standards communicated by the GPMs and the corporate controller.

**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/Finance, Chartered Accountant preferable
- 3 to 4 years of accounting experience with experience in audit firm. Audit experience of auditing multinational company is preferred.
- Experience in supervising peer/staff an advantage
- Demonstrated capability to understand accounting outcomes and explain accounting treatment like the new lease standard
- Intermediate Excel skills, good with managing large volume of data
- Agile with working with various enterprise systems (e.g. JDE, BPCS, SAP), willing to work with manual processes and strive for process improvements
- English required. Other language skills desired
- Energetic and innovative with a passion to make things happen. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills (passion for data and accuracy)