Total 8 job vacancies by AECOM

This role is responsible for preparing, reviewing, and analyzing moderate to complex payroll-related journal entries and reconciliations, ensuring accuracy and compliance with policies and accounting standards. The Senior Specialist handles more complex transactions, supports issue resolution, and ensures accurate and timely completion of period-end close activities. 

The role requires solid technical knowledge, problem-solving skills, and the ability to work independently with minimal supervision. The Senior Specialist collaborates with cross-functional teams, supports audits, maintains internal controls, and contributes to process improvements in payroll accounting. 

• Perform end-to-end payroll accounting activities, including complex payroll journals, reconciliations, and reporting. 

• Prepare payroll-related journals such as unpaid salaries and wages, bonuses and incentives, unused vacation and leave balances, statutory accruals, employer contributions to statutory benefits, and other applicable transactions. 

• Review and approve journal entries and reconciliations prepared by junior team members, ensuring accuracy and compliance. 

• Analyze and reconcile variances between timekeeping records and GL data, including mismatches in hours worked vs. paid, overtime or leave discrepancies, payroll output vs. accrual differences, and cost center or wage type mapping issues. 

• Ensure compliance with financial controls, company policies, and external audit requirements. 

• Maintain accurate and audit-ready documentation for payroll accounting processes. 

• Partner with Finance, HR, Payroll/Timekeeping, and other teams to resolve issues and ensure accuracy in payroll reporting. 

• Prepare and validate reports in line with SLAs and contribute to process improvement and efficiency efforts. 

This role is responsible for preparing, reviewing, and analyzing moderate to complex payroll-related journal entries and reconciliations, ensuring accuracy and compliance with policies and accounting standards. The Senior Specialist handles more complex transactions, supports issue resolution, and ensures accurate and timely completion of period-end close activities.

The role requires solid technical knowledge, problem-solving skills, and the ability to work independently with minimal supervision. The Senior Specialist collaborates with cross-functional teams, supports audits, maintains internal controls, and contributes to process improvements in payroll accounting.

• Perform end-to-end payroll accounting activities, including complex payroll journals, reconciliations, and reporting.
• Prepare payroll-related journals such as unpaid salaries and wages, bonuses and incentives, unused vacation and leave balances, statutory accruals, employer contributions to statutory benefits, and other applicable transactions.
• Review and approve journal entries and reconciliations prepared by junior team members, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Analyze and reconcile variances between timekeeping records and GL data, including mismatches in hours worked vs. paid, overtime or leave discrepancies, payroll output vs. accrual differences, and cost center or wage type mapping issues.
• Ensure compliance with financial controls, company policies, and external audit requirements.
• Maintain accurate and audit-ready documentation for payroll accounting processes.
• Partner with Finance, HR, Payroll/Timekeeping, and other teams to resolve issues and ensure accuracy in payroll reporting.

Prepare and validate reports in line with SLAs and contribute to process improvement and efficiency efforts

This role is responsible for preparing, reviewing, and analyzing moderate to complex payroll-related journal entries and reconciliations, ensuring accuracy and compliance with policies and accounting standards. The Senior Specialist handles more complex transactions, supports issue resolution, and ensures accurate and timely completion of period-end close activities.

The role requires solid technical knowledge, problem-solving skills, and the ability to work independently with minimal supervision. The Senior Specialist collaborates with cross-functional teams, supports audits, maintains internal controls, and contributes to process improvements in payroll accounting.

• Perform end-to-end payroll accounting activities, including complex payroll journals, reconciliations, and reporting.

• Prepare payroll-related journals such as unpaid salaries and wages, bonuses and incentives, unused vacation and leave balances, statutory accruals, employer contributions to statutory benefits, and other applicable transactions.

• Review and approve journal entries and reconciliations prepared by junior team members, ensuring accuracy and compliance.

• Analyze and reconcile variances between timekeeping records and GL data, including mismatches in hours worked vs. paid, overtime or leave discrepancies, payroll output vs. accrual differences, and cost center or wage type mapping issues.

• Ensure compliance with financial controls, company policies, and external audit requirements.

• Maintain accurate and audit-ready documentation for payroll accounting processes.

• Partner with Finance, HR, Payroll/Timekeeping, and other teams to resolve issues and ensure accuracy in payroll reporting.

• Prepare and validate reports in line with SLAs and contribute to process improvement and efficiency efforts.

Job Brief:

This role will be responsible for ensuring the correct US GAAP and IFRS accounting treatment for all lease agreements (real estate, operating and finance).  This role will support the business for forecasts, budgets and analysis relating to leases. They will also be responsible for ensuring that we maximise the potential from our existing underlying systems (Oracle, CoStar and BlackLine) and consistently evolve to embrace new technology. In addition, the role will be responsible for ensuring all processes are in adherence to AECOM policy and procedures and compliant with relevant SOX narratives and controls. This role will report into the ‘Manager, Lease Accounting - GBS’.

Responsibilities & Duties

Lease Management, Technical Accounting and Financial Reporting

• Ensure close process, month end review and flux analysis for leases is completed on a timely basis.

• Preparation of complex and approval of standard monthly reconciliations and journal entries to ensure the completeness and accuracy of the financial statements.

• Assist in preparation of lease reporting to Corporate on a monthly and quarterly basis.

• Maintenance of abstracted lease records within CoStar, global leasing system.

• Assist in classification testing for new and modified lease contracts.

• Assist in quarterly review of leases for impairment triggers, analysis and perform required entries.

• Preparation of complex and approval of standard other real estate related cost entries (e.g. service charges, utilities, business rates, dilapidations).

• Assist in preparation of lease disclosures for 10K/10Q.

• Assist in preparation of statutory accounts disclosures for multiple legal entities.

Auditing and Compliance Monitoring

• Liaise with internal and external auditors and ensure compliance with relevant local regulatory requirements.

• Ensure compliance with lease related SOX narratives and control documentation.

• Participate in self-testing program to proactively identify and remediate control gaps before audits.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify and implement changes that generate efficiencies and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

• Ensure existing systems (Oracle, CoStar, BlackLine) are optimised and identify new technology opportunities.

• Deliver on internal KPI’s and customer focused SLA’s to deliver a best in class leases accounting service

• Deliver on internal KPI’s and customer focused SLA’s to deliver a best in class leases accounting service

Qualifications & Requirements

Minimum Requirements:

• CPA or equivalent professional accounting qualification.

• Minimum 5 years of accounting and finance experience, with at least 3 years of Leases experience and 2 years in a global organisation. 

• Strong technical accounting knowledge with focus on US GAAP and IFRS for leases.

• Experience in operational compliance in shared services.

• Strong communication (English language), and stakeholder management skills.

• Demonstrated success in cross-cultural, virtual team environments.

   

Attributes: 

• Ability to obtain information and identify key issues and relationships relevant to achieving a long-term goal or vision (Strategic Decision Making)

• Ability to understand various business scenarios and make sound decisions by combining relevant factors to arrive at the best outcome (Business Acumen)

• Ability to drive to create experiences and opportunities that will lead to innovation. Ability to guide and influence other to navigate change. (Leading Change)

• Ability to gather, integrate, validate, and analyze relevant data to develop resolutions, findings, and recommendations. (Analytical Thinking)

• Ability to maintain a high level of collaboration among multiple internal and external stakeholders to effectively arrive at solutions and develop initiatives. (Collaboration)

• Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with various internal and external customers globally. Ability to use tact and discretion in delivering critical and sensitive information to peers, stakeholders, and direct reports. (Communication)

• Ability to actively identify new areas for learning and opportunities to improve processes, tools, and mindset (Continuous improvement)

• Ability to maintain good customer relationship and initiate ways to improve customer experience (Customer service)

• Ability to clearly define objectives and set targets for the team that are consistent with and compliant to service delivery agreements, key performance indicators, and policies. (Planning and Organizing)

• Ability to identify and resolve varied and complex issues by applying best practices and technical expertise and ability to recommend solutions for recurring and unique scenarios. (Problem Solving)

• Ability to monitor and measure progress and effectively drive individual and team results that supports the overall goal of the team. (Results Oriented)

Lease Management, Technical Accounting and Financial Reporting

• Ensure close process and reconciliations for leases are completed on a timely basis.

• Preparation of standard monthly reconciliations and journal entries to ensure the completeness and accuracy of the financial statements.

• Abstraction of financial data for new, modified and existing leases in Co-Star.

• Preparation of amortisation schedules from Co-Star.

• Preparation of standard journals to record asset & liability adjustments from Co-Star amortisation schedule.

• Preparation of sundry invoices for sublease income.

• Preparation of listing of all leases for corporate filing requirements.

• Preparation of standard other real estate related cost entries (e.g. service charges, utilities, business rates, dilapidations).

• Preparation of quarterly gross-up for Equipment asset & liability adjustments.

Auditing and Compliance Monitoring

• Liaise with internal auditors and ensure compliance with relevant local regulatory requirements.

• Ensure compliance with lease related SOX narratives and control documentation.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify and implement changes that generate efficiencies and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

• Ensure existing systems (Oracle, CoStar, BlackLine) are optimised and identify new technology opportunities.

• Deliver on internal KPI’s and customer focused SLA’s to deliver a best in class leases accounting service

Attributes: 

• Ability to obtain information and identify key issues and relationships relevant to achieving a long-term goal or vision (Strategic Decision Making)
• Ability to understand various business scenarios and make sound decisions by combining relevant factors to arrive at the best outcome (Business Acumen)
• Ability to drive to create experiences and opportunities that will lead to innovation. Ability to guide and influence other to navigate change. (Leading Change)
• Ability to gather, integrate, validate, and analyze relevant data to develop resolutions, findings, and recommendations. (Analytical Thinking)

• Ability to maintain a high level of collaboration among multiple internal and external stakeholders to effectively arrive at solutions and develop initiatives. (Collaboration)
• Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with various internal and external customers globally. Ability to use tact and discretion in delivering critical and sensitive information to peers, stakeholders, and direct reports. (Communication)
• Ability to actively identify new areas for learning and opportunities to improve processes, tools, and mindset (Continuous improvement)
• Ability to maintain good customer relationship and initiate ways to improve customer experience (Customer service)
• Ability to clearly define objectives and set targets for the team that are consistent with and compliant to service delivery agreements, key performance indicators, and policies. (Planning and Organizing)
• Ability to identify and resolve varied and complex issues by applying best practices and technical expertise and ability to recommend solutions for recurring and unique scenarios. (Problem Solving)
• Ability to monitor and measure progress and effectively drive individual and team results that supports the overall goal of the team. (Results Oriented)

Job Brief

The role will be responsible for supporting end-to-end project accounting life cycle activities for assigned accounts and projects. The role will be involved with stakeholder coordination to execute processes that will drive the completion of assigned projects.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Perform routine and assigned tasks that support ongoing projects in compliance with the contract, service level agreement, define methodologies, and procedures.
• Assist in reviewing projects for accurate revenue recognition. 
• Support data gathering and report generation requirements to support various reporting requirements for each project.
• Escalate identified issues and concerns to the Team Lead for timely resolution.
• Maintain the SOP/DTP of current processes and incorporate documentation updates as required.
• Perform multiple routine tasks in compliance with service level agreement, process, policies, and procedures.
• Gather information and documentation to assist in investigating and in resolving issues within the assigned process.
• Perform transactional task and provide assistance in resolving employee center tickets.

Job Brief

The role will be responsible for supporting end-to-end project accounting life cycle activities for assigned accounts and projects. The role will be involved with stakeholder coordination to execute processes that will drive the completion of assigned projects.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Perform moderately complex tasks that support multiple and varied projects in compliance with the contract, service level agreement, define methodologies, and procedures
• May need to provide guidance to junior members of the team
• Reviews project financials for accurate revenue recognition
• Perform in-depth project analysis and provide recommendations based on findings
• Provide analysis, resolutions, and recommendations for moderately complex process improvements and technical issues through existing technical procedures and methodologies
• Support the Team Lead/Manager in handling escalations and managing disputes related to project financials
• Maintains and prepares SOP/DTP of current processes and the incorporate documentation updates
• Participate in audit-related activities and prepare audit responses
• May support junior members of the team in addressing routine issues within the assigned processes
• Propose alternatives in identified issues and assist in investigating and in resolving common and unusual issues
• Contribute specialized expertise to different assigned projects and may provide key updates to Team Lead and Manager

Job Brief

The role will be responsible for supporting end-to-end project accounting life cycle activities for assigned accounts and projects. The role will be involved with stakeholder coordination to execute processes that will drive the completion of assigned projects.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Perform moderately complex tasks that support multiple and varied projects in compliance with the contract, service level agreement, define methodologies, and procedures
• May need to provide guidance to junior members of the team
• Reviews project financials for accurate revenue recognition
• Perform in-depth project analysis and provide recommendations based on findings
• Provide analysis, resolutions, and recommendations for moderately complex process improvements and technical issues through existing technical procedures and methodologies
• Support the Team Lead/Manager in handling escalations and managing disputes related to project financials
• Maintains and prepares SOP/DTP of current processes and the incorporate documentation updates
• Participate in audit-related activities and prepare audit responses
• May support junior members of the team in addressing routine issues within the assigned processes
• Propose alternatives in identified issues and assist in investigating and in resolving common and unusual issues
• Contribute specialized expertise to different assigned projects and may provide key updates to Team Lead and Manager