Senior Accountant, Corporate and Consolidation Accounting at Cummins in Nashville, Tennessee

Job Description:

Senior Accountant, Corporate and Consolidation Accounting

We are looking for a talented Senior Accountant, Corporate and Consolidation Accounting to join our team for our Filtration Business Unit in Nashville, TN.

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Responsible for implementing accounting practices and procedures. Supervises a group of general accountants or accounting clerks in maintaining the general ledger.


• Coaches and mentors accountants and accounting clerks; assigns work according to availability, skills, and developmental needs; assesses performance and provides feedback to direct reports.


• Reviews and interprets balance sheet and profit and loss statements, consolidated financial statements, and other accounting schedules and reports.


• Identifies control weaknesses and communicates to management. Operates in a lead capacity in making remedial changes to tighten and enhance controls and mitigate risk.


• Designs, modifies, installs, and/or maintains accounting systems to ensure adequate recognition of financial transactions.


• Implements processes and procedures that properly capture, track, and report revenue and expenditures.

To be successful in this role you will need the following:

• Financial Regulations Acumen - Evaluates applicable regulations for the financial area of focus, such as tax, banking, pension, local accounting to ensure underlying transactions are recorded in compliance with applicable regulations; explains key requirements and purpose of regulations and implications to the business to inform and educate relevant stakeholders.


• Financial Analysis - Interprets financial data by analyzing trends, variances, opportunities and risks to provide insight to stakeholders regarding financial impact to drive business improvement; evaluates financial results against targets to communicate conclusions to all stakeholders; ensures integrity of financial data by investigating variances and determining corrective actions to resolve identified issues.


• Manages ambiguity - Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.


• Business Process and Internal Control Risk Analysis - Evaluates business processes to identify risks and internal control gaps; applies understanding of business processes and relevant risks to develop and implement process improvements; develops risk management plans by applying internal control framework to address identified risks.

Education, Licenses, Certifications

College, university, or equivalent degree in Accounting, Finance or related field required. Progress toward Certified Public Accountant, Certified Management Accountant, Chartered Accountant or similar certification preferred.

Experience

Intermediate level of relevant professional work experience in the field of study required, including some supervisory experience.

• Responsible for performing and/or overseeing highly specialized accounting work required to maintain the department’s general ledger. 


• Is also in-charge of resolving complex accounting issues resulting from routine and non-routine accounting transactions. 


• Key Responsibilities include interacting with multiple individuals across the global finance organization to ensure the timely recording, analyzing and reporting of accounting transactions. 


• Works with the GL Accountant to perform the Corporate Consolidation for the business on a monthly basis in support of the quarterly and annual financial statement preparation process.


• Reviews general ledger entries, account reconciliations, internal and external reports, schedules and statements. 


• Responds to inquiries received from management, internal and external auditors, Sarbanes-Oxley audit group and others regarding financial results, special reporting requests, etc. 


• Reviews existing internal controls on a regular basis and develops new internal controls as necessary.