General Accounting Specialist Lazio

General Accounting Specialist
Roma
Lazio, Lazio

Job Description**:

Our firm is looking for a talented full time and permanent employee for the position of "**_General Accounting Specialist_**" to join our Italy Finance Department.

In this role, reporting to the Associate Director General Accounting, he/she will manage various accounting activities related to US GAAP and local GAAP results.

This includes both accounting, financial analysis and internal control related matters performed locally or through partner teams (e. g.

Business Services Center, CoEs).

**Primary Activities**:

- The key objective of the role is to ensure accurate and compliant accounting results in the Italian legal entities for US GAAP and local GAAP.

Main responsibilities include but are not limited to the following, either managed in collaboration with the Business Service Centers and CoEs or linked to local responsibilities:

- Accounting to Reporting activities both for local GAAP and for US GAAP purposes.

- Preparing and closing of the books on a monthly basis; Managing the monthly closing process in cooperation with the EMEA Business Services Center as well as budget holders and financial analysts, preparing and/or reviewing SAP accounting journal entries and various other accounting activities as and when required

- Support the yearly closing of group reporting and local statutory books from an accounting perspective

- Posting quarterly accrual of current and deferred income taxes

- Locally specific sales accounting, pension & benefits accounting

- Inventory and asset management

- Reconcile assigned balance sheet accounts

- Oversight of the Source to Settle cycle in cooperation with the EMEA Business Service Center;

- Support internal and external audits

- Ensure compliance with regulations

- Support new system implementations

- Monitor key performance indicators mainly in the AtR and StS area and address any action required (e. g.

through review of dashboards and implementation of action plans)

- Support the Finance team in various financial activities (e. g.

preparation of reports, various ad hoc analysis, review of exceptions, implementation of remediation actions)

- Provide support in executing financial and cross-functional projects working with the global and local team to ensure timely and effective implementation

- Provide support on ad hoc requests to the business

- Work effectively with key-stakeholders within Finance and across Functions and different levels of management

- contribute to the development and continuous evolution of strategic frameworks

**Required

- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Business Administration/Finance

- Minimum 3+ years' experience in a similar position in multinational business environment

- Business & Financial Acumen

- Learning mindset

- Project management knowledge

- Advanced analytical skills and problem solving attitude

- Proactive team player with a focus on collaboration, communication and interpersonal skills

- Self-motivated with critical attention to detail and deadlines

- Attitude to work in an international environment and capacity to build strong relationships with all stakeholders

- Confidentiality

- Ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously

- Fluent in English

- Advanced IT- PC skills (Excel, Power Point, Word, SAP)

- Keen to work within a dynamic environment, with high performance expectations

- Key leadership behaviors: Demonstrate ethics and integrity, Drive results, Focus on Customers, Make rapid disciplined decisions, Act with courage and candor, Foster collaboration, Learning mindset

**Who we are

We are known as Merck & Co. , Inc. , Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else.

For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases.

Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

**What we look for

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world.

Here, you have that opportunity.

You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time.

Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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**Employee Status**:

Regular

**Relocation**:

No relocation

**VISA Sponsorship**:

**Travel Requirements**:

**Flexible Work Arrangements**:

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**Requisition ID**:R230324