Anaplan. As the engine behind back-office system connectivity, you might not recognize our name, but our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, and Bayer are just a few of the 2,000+ companies that rely on our best-in-class platform and its native AI capabilities to see, plan, and lead their businesses. By dynamically connecting financial, strategic, and operational plans in real-time, companies trust Anaplan to give them the power to anticipate change, address complexity, deliver operational insights, increase profits, and stay ahead of their competition.
What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our commitment to our customers’ success and our collective motivation to achieve ambitious goals. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, and we behave like leaders irrespective of title. When you work for us, you’ll be part of a winning culture that’s dedicated to creating opportunities for our customers, partners, and employees. We hope you’ll join us. Let’s create something incredible together!
We want you to think big and act bold through expressing your authentic best self! Anaplan is looking for a General Accountant to join our GL Accounting team. This is a hybrid position based in our Manila Office, with a work schedule starting 6AM Manila time to collaborate with our main Accounting team based out of San Francisco, California, USA. It is a stellar opportunity to get involved in a highly visible, large-scale SaaS cloud company. This role is an immediate full-time position. If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and conquer unique problems that no one else is solving, keep reading.
This is a crucial role that will assist in general accounting operations in a fast paced and evolving environment. This role will be responsible for supporting the month-end close process, SOX compliance control execution and quarterly / annual audit process, as well as identifying and driving project-based work to provide process efficiencies for the GL Accounting team. The candidate should expect to demonstrate current abilities while also focusing on learning quickly and adding new value to the current processes. This role will be reporting to the Accounting Manager.
Your Impact
- Prepare and upload the journal entry templates for various accounting processes during the Month End Close.
- Review monthly expense accrual journal entries, reconciliations and related schedules for financial reporting purposes
- Collaborate with FP&A and other cross-functional departments to ensure completeness of accruals
- Assist in international accounting related processes, including reviewing the country-specific financial statements, liaising with the 3rd party service provider and responding to regulatory requirements
- Assist in administrative tasks of the GL accounting team, such as maintaining close calendars and checklists
- Support quarterly reviews and annual audits through compiling and preparing relevant workpaper
- Participate in special projects and ad hoc analyses (i.e. entity rollout, statutory audits, etc.)
Your Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, CPA is a plus
- 4+ Years of Public Accounting or Industry experience, Big 4 experience is a plus, global company/shared service company experience is a plus
- Detailed-oriented and can handle a large volume of manual data through strong Excel Skills
- Experience in Workday (ERP) is a plus
- Strong verbal and written English skills – no communication challenges when working with the US onshore teams.
- Ability to work a flexible schedule that enables collaboration with the US onshore team (PST time zone)
- Demonstrated ownership, problem-solving and analytical skills, combined with impeccable integrity
- Experience with, and enjoys collaborating with other functionalities within the business
- Ability to operate in a fast paced, constantly evolving, highly transactional and data driven role
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Build your job in a place that thrives on diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We believe in maintaining a hiring and working experience in which all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your true self to work every day!
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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