Senior Accountant

As we create a colorful, capable and cleaner world through chemistry, we invite you to join our team to harness the power of chemistry to shape markets, redefine industries and improve lives for billions of people around the world. Creating Essential Chemistry That The World Needs

At Chemours, our people are redefining how the world thinks of chemistry by approaching everything we do with a commitment to delivering Trusted Chemistry that creates better lives and helps communities thrive. That begins with how we use our science, data, and unmatched technical expertise to develop market-leading products with the highest levels of performance, sustainability, and safety in the industry.

Powered by chemistry, our products are used in applications that make the products we rely on, processes, and new technologies possible. In key sectors such as clean energy, advanced electronics, high-performance computing and AI, climate friendly cooling, and high-quality paints and coatings for homes and industrial infrastructure---sustainable solutions and more modern living depend on Chemours chemistry.

Chemours is seeking a Senior Accountant to join our growing Controllership team. This position will be available at the Asturias (Spain) site and report directly to the Global Payroll Accounting, OTC, Corporate and SG&A Manager.

The responsibilities of the position include, but is not limited to, the following: Payroll Accounting Close

• Review payroll-related journal entries and system interfaces to the general ledger.
• Review payroll balance sheet reconciliations and investigate and resolve reconciling items.
• Record and analyze payroll-related accruals, including vacation, bonus, incentive compensation, severance, and other employee-related liabilities.
• Validate interfaces between payroll systems and the general ledger and resolve discrepancies between source data and recorded balances.
• Prepare payroll flux analyses and provide clear explanations for significant variances.
• Tracks payroll-related cash funding and approve deduction related wire requests.
• Analyzes payroll transactions for appropriate classification and compliance with generally accepted accounting standards and accounting policy.

Oversight of Outsourced Service Delivery

• Supervise transactional activities performed by the staff of an outsourced third-party accounting service provider to ensure they are completed timely and accurately in accordance with the contractual service level agreements.
• Review service delivery performance and process adherence.
• Support training, knowledge transfer and operational excellence programs.
• Ensure continuity of operations and process documentation.

Process Improvement and Transformation

• Identify automation and simplification opportunities.
• Lead implementation of new payroll processes and activity transitions.
• Develop SOPs and maintain process documentation.
• Partner with Finance, HR, IT and business stakeholders on process enhancements.
• Identifies financial / accounting training needs and developing / facilitating training execution

Compliance and Controls

• Ensure compliance with SOX requirements and all applicable internal control standards relating to Payroll processes.
• Coordinate and support all internal (via AuditBoard) and external audit activities. (via Connect)
• Support local entity statutory audits by ensuring that all audit requests (mainly from PwC) and other auditors are addressed accurately and within required timelines.

Revenue Recognition Accounting

• Review sales transactions, shipping documentation, and other relevant support to determine the appropriate revenue recognition treatment on a quarterly basis.
• Prepare and record revenue recognition, revenue deferral, revenue reversal, and related cost-of-goods-sold journal entries.
• Prepare schedules and supporting documentation for revenue accruals, deferrals, reversals, and related balance sheet accounts.
• Support quarter-end and year-end revenue reviews, financial statement support, and audit requests.

Reporting

• Coordinate Balance Sheet flux analysis for US entities.
• Prepare management reporting and respond to ad hoc controllership and business requests.
• Support payroll cash forecasting, management reporting, and other payroll accounting analyses, as applicable.

Stakeholder Management

• Serve as a knowledgeable accounting partner and communicate issues, risks, and required actions in a timely manner.
• Partner with Local Controllers, Treasury, Tax, HR, and Business Finance teams.
• Facilitate resolution of issues involving multiple functions and legal entities.