Senior Accountant

Company Description

When you’re one of us, you get to run with the best. For decades, we’ve been helping marketers from the world’s top brands personalize experiences for millions of people with our cutting-edge technology, solutions and services. Epsilon’s best-in-class identity gives brands a clear, privacy-safe view of their customers, which they can use across our suite of digital media, messaging and loyalty solutions. We process 400+ billion consumer actions each day and hold many patents of proprietary technology, including real-time modeling languages and consumer privacy advancements. Thanks to the work of every employee, Epsilon India is now Great Place to Work-Certified™. Epsilon has also been consistently recognized as industry-leading by Forrester, Adweek and the MRC. Positioned at the core of Publicis Groupe, Epsilon is a global company with more than 8,000 employees around the world. For more information, visit epsilon.com/apac or our LinkedIn page.

Job Description

About the Opportunity

The Senior Accountant provides accurate and timely support for the accounting department’s day-to-day operations. Reporting to the Accounting Manager (GL), the associate accountant supports all aspects of the full accounting cycle for CJ US, CJ UK and its subsidiary entities.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist with journal entry preparation, including uploading into SAP
• Prepare financial reports and review for accuracy
• Help with account reconciliation and analysis
• Assist with cash reconciliations between different systems
• Provide support for Balance Sheet accounts’ clearing of documents
• Assist with billing, including the creation of job codes, clients and invoices in SAP
• Monitoring of AR aging for different entities
• Follow up on payments with intercompany partners as well as outside clients
• Completion of designated internal control tasks and reporting in Blackline
• Assist with special projects as needed, including support for auditors’ requests
• Maintain good rapport with staff, clients, vendors, external auditors and regulators
• Check and assess all accounting records for accuracy
• Adhere to best practices, standards and procedures in all accounting functions and activities

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Accounting, Finance or similar majors
• 4+ years bookkeeping and/or administrative experience
• Strong analytical and organizational skills with attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Proven ability to learn quickly and succeed in a fast-paced environment
• Desire to grow and assume more responsibility
• Must be comfortable interfacing with employees outside of the office at other locations, via phone, email and web meetings to gain understanding and obtain information to complete monthly tasks
• Able to display initiative & take ownership of problems
• Must be a strong team player, flexible, and willing to work overtime when required

Additional Information

Publicis Groupe Commitment to Diversity & Equity Policy:

Publicis Groupe is deeply committed to diversity and inclusion in spirit and in action at every level of the organization. It reflects our core values and embodies our purpose of building a great company enabling human potential. We have a deep-rooted appreciation for how diversity of thought drives innovation, and we ground that value in a culture of collaboration and connected thinking.  

• Diversity & inclusion are business imperatives on which Publicis Groupe will not negotiate. While fostering a work environment that is inclusive of all talent is a collective responsibility, it is leadership’s job to nurture the career aspirations and goals of all our talent. Promoting gender equality starts at the top and the Groupe will not tolerate anyone speaking for our organization who does not value the importance of inclusion. Publicis Groupe works very hard to champion diversity and will continue to insist that each agency’s leadership be champions of both diversity and inclusion.
• Our Core values “ VIVA LA DIFFERENC’E is based on the very aspect of celebrating differences 
• Our strategy focuses on bringing together teams with diverse perspectives, disciplines, and experiences, because diversity of thought best serves our clients and their customers who they aspire to impact

Equal Employment Commitment:

1. We provide equal opportunities to all our employees and to all eligible applicants for employment in our company. We do not unfairly discriminate on any ground, including race, caste, religion, color, ancestry, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, ethnic origin, disability or any other category protected by applicable law.
2. When recruiting, developing and promoting our employees, our decisions will be based solely on performance, merit, competence and potential.
3. We shall have fair, transparent and clear employee policies which promote diversity and equality, in accordance with applicable law and other provisions of this Code. These policies shall provide for clear terms of employment, training, development and performance management.