Descrizione
Xylem |ˈzīləm|
- The tissue in plants that brings water upward from the roots;
- a leading global water technology company.
We’re a global team unified in a common purpose: creating advanced technology solutions to the world’s water challenges. Developing new technologies that will improve the way water is used, conserved, and re-used in the future is central to our work. Our products and services move, treat, analyze, monitor and return water to the environment, in public utility, industrial, residential and commercial building services settings. Xylem also provides a leading portfolio of smart metering, network technologies and advanced analytics solutions for water, electric and gas utilities. In more than 150 countries, we have strong, long-standing relationships with customers who know us for our powerful combination of leading product brands and applications expertise with a strong focus on developing comprehensive, sustainable solutions. For more information, please visit us at www.xylem.com**.**
If you are excited and passionate about helping us solve water, we want to hear from you!
We Offer You More Than Just “A Job”
- Professional Development – To advance the capabilities of our people, we offer a wide variety of experiences to support our employees’ professional growth and continuous learning.
- Total Rewards – We offer comprehensive programs for compensation, benefits, recognition, learning and development, work-life integration and corporate citizenship.
- Watermark – Watermark is our corporate social responsibility program working to provide education and access to safe water to ensure healthy lives, gender equality, and resilient communities. Employees have the opportunity to learn and volunteer on various water-related projects.
- Employee Networks – Our Employee Networks provide a professional, supportive network for employees from diverse backgrounds, including Women’s, LGBT+ and Allies, Veteran’s, People of Color and Allies, Emerging Leaders, and Working Parents Networks.
Support cost accounting function for the $3B Americas businesses. Support regional cost accounting standards processes and implementation of these items through all units in the Americas. Duties include but are not limited to the excess and obsolete inventory reporting and recording, support annual standard cost updates, coordinating physical inventories and fixed asset counts, drive continuous improvement activities for inventory/costing processes and assist in month-end close process.
Essential Duties/Principal Responsibilities:
- Monthly closing cycle:
- Prepare journal entries related to inventory valuation and cost accounting accounts
- Prepare various financial reporting deliverables
- Support manufacturing leaders (operations and finance) to ensure that business is aware of inventory and cost accounting matters and the potential impacts on the units’ financial results
- Support standardized costing function for all manufacturing locations to ensure accurate product costs and inventory balances
- Ensure accounts related balance sheet accounts are reconciled per requirements (timeliness, frequency, quality)
- Support effective execution of SOX controls (i.e. inventory, reserve accounts, etc.)
- Implement continuous improvement initiatives to drive significant improvements in cost accounting and business processes to
- Coordinate with internal & external audit for accounting and control items
General Audit & SOX compliance:
- Maintain effective internal control environment to ensure timely and accurate financial reporting and compliance with laws and regulations.
- Supports internal and external audit requests
Additional Responsibilities:
- Assist in the development and implementation of new accounting policies and procedures as required.
- Submission of appropriate reports as required.
- Liaise with and support Finance, HR, IT and other functions within the region with SOX issues.
- To support colleagues in the Company, across Regional and departmental boundaries to ensure that the Company’s goals are achieved.
- Provide cover where required during any period of absence.
- Comply fully with Xylem’s ethics and standard policies.
- Responsible for the achievement of annual PFP goals.
- Must work within established Company policies and procedures.
- High level financial responsibility for the Region
- High potential risk for damages or losses
Qualifications: Education, Experience, Skills, Abilities, License/Certification:
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or financial/accounting with +5 years of business experience.
- CPA, CMA or MBA is preferred.
- Must have a working knowledge of United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) and Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.
- Comprehensive knowledge of cost accounting items (i.e. bill of materials, costing systems and methodologies)
- Experience in publicly traded multi-site environment
- Excellent communication (written and oral) and personal interaction skills required.
- Highest standards of accuracy and precision; highly organized. Articulate with excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Must have demonstrated the ability to engage business process owners in a direct yet professional manner, thoroughly evaluate business processes, and quickly identify potential control gaps, and implement solutions successfully.
- Ability to think creatively, highly driven and self-motivated
Preferred Qualifications:
- Computer Skills (ERP System, Hyperion or OneStream, Oracle)
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)
- Regularly required to sit or stand, reach, bend and move about the facility
- Employee must comply with all local regulations and published Company work rules as well as written instructions.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Standard weekly job hours:
- Standard for salaried employees with ability to manage some variation in work demands day to day and month to month.
Travel requirement:
Xylem is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.