Your responsibilities include:

• Ensuring that the data and information booked in ledgers are accurate and are articulating & presenting the transparency of facts to the stakeholders.
• Developing and attending intra-company, IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) leases, and other month-end general ledger reconciliations.
• Extending technical advice on appropriate accounting treatments to finance support services.
• Ensuring shareholder returns are remitted via royalties and dividend payments in a timely manner.
• Coordinating and submitting working capital forecasts and actuals for creditors and debtors on month-ends.
• Supporting the governance of GFCF (Gross Fixed Capital Formation) controls over core finance processes and regularly reviewing and actioning upon the improvements suggested by the Financial Controller teams.
• Executing accounting data to the internal tax accountant as required for corporate income tax filings.
• Preparing statutory financial statements, segmental P&L, and related party transaction summaries.
• Liaising with Statutory and Internal Auditors on audit requirements and ensuring audits are closed in a timely manner.

Additional responsibilities

• Providing accounting technical support with the knowledge of global and local accounting standards.
• Providing agile support to finance functions specific to cost center, general ledger and order creations.
• Representing Unilever Sri Lanka as a Single Point of Contact (SPOC) at global project executions.
• Regularly upskilling through FLEX and Flow programs.

Your key stakeholders include:

• Finance Managers and Controllers
• Finance Support Function Leads
• Reporting Operating Centre (OC), Central Support Team, Global Governing Team (GCAD) and IT Team.
• Statutory and Internal Control Auditors.

What do you need for this role?

Candidates should

• Be a graduate majored in Accounting or possess a relevant equivalent professional qualification. 
• Additionally being fully or part-qualified Chartered Accountant (CA Sri Lanka) will be an added advantage.
• Possess 3-4 years of experience in financial accounting specifically in handling statutory audits & statutory financial statements.
• Have sound knowledge in SAP Accounting and be familiar with Sri Lanka Financial
• Reporting Standards (SLFRS) and Sri Lanka Accounting Standards (LKAS).
• Be self-confident and assertive.
• Have excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to work under pressure with cross-functional teams.