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If you are a highly talented International Senior Accountant, we want to hear from you! 

This position is located in our Baltimore or Chicago office and offers a hybrid work schedule, with the expectation of being in the office once a week.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field

• 3 years’ accounting experience with international entities

• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly with Excel

• Excellent analytical skills with a thorough knowledge of accounting principles, including cash basis versus accrual basis accounting

• Polished written and oral communication skills

• Strong attention to detail and accuracy

• Good organizational skills and ability to prioritize

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Preferred Requirements:

• CPA license or candidate

• Public accounting and/or law firm experience

What will your day look like?

As an International Senior Accountant, you will be responsible for accounting operations of foreign subsidiaries in Mexico and Puerto Rico, branch offices in South Korea and Brazil, and any new international entities. You will coordinate with local teams to prepare annual budget deliverables, which include revenue, operating expenses, production, and rates. You will also analyze services performed between domestic and foreign subsidiaries to ensure appropriate transfer pricing. You’ll perform cash flow analyses to understand short-term and long-term cash flow needs.

Additionally, you will reconcile general ledger account balances, including intercompany balances, on a monthly basis to ensure completeness and accuracy. You will assist with enhancing the automation of high-volume account reconciliations. You will also review and analyze financial statements on a monthly basis, and provide commentary to senior leaders of the Accounting team. You’ll assist with the monthly close processes, including the preparation of journal entries.

In this role, you will ensure statutory compliance across all foreign subsidiaries. This includes local statutory audits and tax filings. You will also assist with various tax requirements, including sales and use tax filings, personal property tax filings, and other business tax filings. You will prepare ad-hoc reports for senior management to support business decision-making. You will also participate in system upgrades and enhancements.

To learn more about DLA Piper, please visit our website (https://www.dlapiper.com/en/us/) .

We offer exceptional career opportunities in an environment that is challenging, rewarding, and, we believe, truly different from our competitors. Our employees enjoy a competitive benefits package and a dynamic and diverse environment in which they can build a long and fruitful career and reap the rewards of their success.

General & Essential Job Expectations

While the specific job requirements of a DLA Piper position may vary depending upon scope of the job and area of specialty, there are certain universal requirements that are expected of all DLA Piper employees, which include but are not limited to:

• Effectively communicate, verbally and in writing, with clients, lawyers, business professionals, and third parties;

• Produce deliverables, answer phone calls, and reply to correspondence in an efficient and responsive manner;

• Provide timely, accurate, and quality work product;

• Successfully meet deadlines, expectations, and perform work duties as required;

• Foster positive work relationships;

• Comply with all firm policies and practices;

• Engage in both physical and sedentary activity, such as (a) working at a computer for extended periods of time, including on-screen reading and typing; (b) participating in digital/virtual conference calls; (c) participating in meetings as needed;

• Perform all other duties, tasks or projects as assigned.

Our employees are expected to embrace and uphold our firm values as a part of our DLA Piper culture. We are committed to excellence in how we represent our clients and develop our people.

Physical Demands, Work Environment, and Other Requirements

Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Application Process:

If you have a request for an accommodation during the application process or have any questions about the process, please contact careers@us.dlapiper.com . Please add noreply@dlapipercareers.us to your list of safe senders.

Applicants must apply directly online instead of sending application materials via email.

No immigration sponsorship is available for this position.

Agency applications will not be considered.

Job: Accounting

Organization: Accounting

Title: International Senior Accountant

Location: Illinois-Chicago

Requisition ID: 24000323

Other Locations: United States-Maryland-Baltimore