Job Summary

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Maintain thorough understanding of respective areas, including any relevant legal agreements to ensure accurate financial statement presentation
• Develop two-way relationships with business partners in areas impacting your financial statement responsibilities and understand upcoming changes that will impact your areas
• Proactively share knowledge and provide explanations to the financial charges/impact that is materially different from previous trends
• Obtain relevant financial data and reporting from respective groups, analyze impact to financial statements
• Prepare journal entries using SAP and/or Winshuttle for respective areas, ensuring appropriate support is included

• Reconcile respective General Ledger accounts to sub-accounts and/or supporting schedules/reports
• Analyze balances and ensure accuracy of the General Ledger
• Prepare any necessary subsequent month adjustments
• Maintain clear documentation of the purpose of the reconciliation and all documentation supporting the related GL balance

• On a quarterly basis, prepare additional schedules detailing GL balances for your respective areas. Reconcile these schedules to the GL and supporting documentation prior to submitting to Tokyo
• Develop and maintain all required reports to support the quarterly submissions

• Maintain and update internal control narrative documentation and perform process walk-throughs with Internal Audit
• Provide Internal Audit with evidence supporting J-Sox controls
• Prepare narrative analyses for respective areas supporting External Audit quarterly analytical requirements
• Support the Senior Director, Corporate Accounting in providing External Audit supporting document requests, ensuring all documentation properly supports testing areas for Quarterly Reviews and Annual Audit

• Research and maintain current knowledge of most recent accounting pronouncements as it relates to areas of responsibility
• Work closely with finance partners, understanding their budget responsibilities and provide clear communication of financial impacts to them for areas of responsibility (e.g. ensure understanding of new contracts or process changes)
• Evaluate current processes and provide recommendations to the Senior Director, Corporate Accounting for potential process improvements
• Participate in special projects that impact your scope of responsibility

Responsibilities Continued

• Cash
  o Ensure compliance with State escheat requirements
  o Research statement activity to ensure accurate postings to GL accounts and respective brands/cost centers
  o Provide tax group with supporting schedules detailing realized and unrealized gains as requested
• Payroll
  o Work closely with the DSI payroll team to understand ADP system logic, deductions, etc. to ensure proper accounting treatment
  o Ensure proper reclassifications of Ex-pat earnings to appropriate cost centers based on contractual terms
• Liabilities
  o Account for Annual Incentive Plan (AIP), Long-term Incentive Plan (LTIP), Deferred Comp, Rabbi Trust, and other HR type accruals
  o Calculate BPF estimate
• Fixed Assets
  o Perform lease accounting for DSUS Holding group
  o Settle capital spend, create, write-off or impair assets as appropriate, ensuring Fixed Asset sub-ledger is maintained and run depreciation.
• Cost Accounting
  o Maintain standard costs for all DSI products, calculate and monitor variances
  o Maintain master data for all accounting areas related to cost accounting (materials master for finished goods, WIP, etc.)
  o Develop reserves for obsolete, damaged or slow-moving inventory
  o Calculate the translation of COGS at management value vs. legal value
• Revenue/Gross-to-Net
  o Obtain and record all co-promotional activity (DPP, revenue, royalty, etc.)
  o Adjust rebate provisions on a quarterly basis and work with Finance team to provide a preliminary estimate of that adjustment
  o Review and provide auditors with SOC1 documents for third party logistics providers (e.g. SPS)
  o Maintain and develop rebate model in Anaplan system
• Research & Development Accruals
  o Review and monitor accruals for research and development projects
  o Prepare project expense reporting for management review and provide related reporting information to Tokyo R&D Finance
• Intercompany
  o Maintain and run internal cost allocation and intercompany billing based upon agreed upon methodology
  o Prepare all Intercompany Invoices for affiliated entities and reconcile balances with all DS entities

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