Senior General Ledger Associate - Accounting Shared Services

About the role

Magna, a global mobility technology company and supplier in the automotive space, is looking for a Senior General Ledger Associate within its accounting shared services function. The role leads and coaches a team of GL associates, ensures accurate accounting in SAP, supports financial reporting and closing, and works closely with local finance, controlling, treasury, tax, AP, AR and purchasing teams.

Key responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of GL associates, including mentoring and onboarding new members.
• Perform and review journal entries, accruals, prepayments, provisions and reclassifications, and ensure accurate posting in SAP.
• Maintain General Ledger master data, monitor and analyse balance sheet and P&L accounts, and prepare and review reconciliations.
• Execute closing activities on time, investigate discrepancies, and support intercompany reconciliation and confirmations.
• Ensure compliance with IFRS, local GAAP, SOX requirements and internal controls, and support internal and external audits.
• Provide accounting expertise to business stakeholders, act as escalation point for complex issues, and contribute to harmonisation of GL processes and process optimisation.
• Support transition and transformation projects, and help develop SOPs, work instructions and training materials.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, Business Administration or equivalent.
• 3-5 years of accounts payable or transactional accounting experience; shared services or multinational experience strongly preferred.
• Fluent English, written and spoken; additional languages are a plus.
• Professional accounting qualification (ACCA, CPA, CIMA or equivalent) is an advantage.

Required skills

• Strong knowledge of major ERP/finance systems such as SAP for AP processes.
• Strong MS Excel for reconciliations and analysis.
• Familiarity with AP automation tools (e.g. OCR invoice scanning) and financial controls such as SOX.
• Attention to detail, analytical thinking, collaboration and reliability under pressure.