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Cash Accountant / Bank Reconciliation Accountant

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Job Summary

The Cash Accountant / Bank Reconciliation Accountant is responsible for ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and timely reconciliation of cash and bank accounts. The role performs bank-to-book reconciliation, investigates reconciling and unmatched transactions, prepares required cash-related journal entries, monitors outstanding items, and supports month-end close activities.

The role works closely with General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable/Cash Application, Treasury, and business unit finance teams to resolve discrepancies and maintain accurate cash balances.

Internal bank reconciliation procedures specifically describe cash reconciliation as comparing ledger balances with cash held at the bank and require monthly reconciliation and related adjusting entries before period close.

Key Responsibilities

1. Bank Reconciliation

  • Perform daily, weekly, and/or monthly bank-to-book reconciliations, depending on the assigned entity and process.
  • Reconcile bank statements against General Ledger and subledger transactions.
  • Review and investigate unmatched or unreconciled transactions.
  • Ensure reconciling items are appropriately classified, including:Deposits in Transit Outstanding Payments Unrecorded Bank Credits Unrecorded Bank Debits
  • Maintain complete and accurate bank reconciliation working files and supporting documentation.
  • Ensure reconciliation differences are resolved or properly supported before period close.

2. Cash Accounting & Journal Entries

  • Prepare, review, and process cash-related journal entries.
  • Record bank charges, foreign exchange differences, and other appropriate cash adjustments.
  • Ensure journal entries contain appropriate supporting documentation and accounting treatment.
  • Investigate discrepancies between bank activity and General Ledger balances.
  • Coordinate corrections with relevant finance teams.

3. Reconciling Item Management

  • Monitor outstanding and aged reconciling items.
  • Investigate the underlying cause of discrepancies and coordinate resolution with responsible teams.
  • Follow up on long-outstanding transactions and ensure they are cleared or appropriately explained.
  • Maintain clear reconciliation comments and supporting evidence for open items.
  • Escalate unresolved or unusual transactions when required.

4. Month-End Close

  • Complete assigned bank reconciliations within the month-end close timetable.
  • Ensure required cash adjustment entries are submitted and posted before period close.
  • Validate that cash balances reflected in the General Ledger are appropriately supported by bank reconciliation records.

5. Systems & Reconciliation Tools

Depending on the assigned business unit, responsibilities may involve working with:

  • Oracle Fusion Cash Management
  • General Ledger/ERP systems
  • Bank portals
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Reconciliation platforms such as ARCS
  • Automated/RPA bank-matching processes

6. Stakeholder Coordination

  • Work closely with AP, AR/Cash Application, GL/R2R, Treasury, and Country Finance teams to investigate and resolve cash discrepancies.
  • Respond to reconciliation queries from internal stakeholders.
  • Coordinate with business units regarding unidentified transactions or accounting adjustments.
  • Support internal/external audit requests by providing reconciliation schedules and supporting evidence.

Qualifications:

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
  • CPA or similar professional accounting qualification is an advantage but not necessarily required

Experience

  • Experience in bank reconciliation, cash accounting, General Ledger, or Record-to-Report (R2R) is preferred.
  • Experience supporting month-end close and journal entry preparation is highly desirable.
  • Shared Services / Global Business Services experience is an advantage for a multi-entity role.

Technical Skills

  • Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including reconciliation and data-analysis functions.
  • Knowledge of ERP/accounting systems, preferably Oracle Fusion or a comparable financial system.
  • Understanding of:Bank-to-book reconciliation General Ledger accounting Journal entries Cash accounting Month-end close Account reconciliation Basic foreign currency accounting
  • Experience with automated reconciliation tools is an advantage.

Key Competencies

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • High attention to detail and accuracy
  • Ability to investigate large or complex reconciliation differences
  • Good understanding of accounting principles and internal controls
  • Ability to manage multiple entities, bank accounts, and deadlines
  • Strong organizational and time-management skills
  • Effective written and verbal communication
  • Ability to collaborate across AP, AR, Treasury and R2R teams
  • Continuous-improvement mindset, particularly around reconciliation automation

Other Qualifications:

  • Must have at least 1-2 years of experience in Record-to Report or General Accounting
  • Experience with ERPs (e.g. SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft); PC proficient – strong experience with Microsoft Excel (advanced excel skills a plus), Word, PowerPoint; experience with MS Access and Project is a plus
  • Strong technical and analytical skills
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Must have stakeholder management experience
  • Must be independent yet a strong team player
  • Ability to quickly learn and apply enterprise AI tools and technologies to support technical workflows and business objectives

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