**Job Summary**
The Senior Corporate Accountant is supports the Corporate Accounting group in a key accounting role and is responsible for the month-end close process, reconciliation reporting, variance analysis, audits, enforcing department accounting policies and other ad-hoc projects. Additionally, this role assists with our SAP initiatives and internal and external financial reporting.
**Essential Functions**
- Responsible for the monthly and quarterly closing process for multiple separate company financial statements, including reconciliation of
- Improves and assists in the creation of new processes to optimize and standardize our global accounting processes.
- Partners with peers on the team, as well as cross functionally with those in other areas such as Analytical Finance, Treasury and Tax.
- Responsible for performing daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual accounting requirements, including, but not limited to, journal entries, reconciliations, analysis of activities and reporting. Specific areas of responsibility include primary ownership of corporate fixed assets accounting process and capital authorization approval process, execution and continuous improvement of monthly COPA assessment process, various judgmental accruals and reserves, as well as assistance with other miscellaneous close activities.
- Supports other activities and processes such as SOX, external audits and internal audits.
- Responsible for the corporate fixed assets accounting process.
- Performs other special projects as needed.
- This role faces several key customers as part of both daily responsibilities and as part of project teams, including Manufacturing, Finance, Business Unit Finance and Corporate Analytical Finance.
**Education and Experience**
- Bachelors-Accounting or Equivalent Experience
- Finance - Public Accounting
- Finance - Finance
- Finance - SEC Reporting
- Finance - Accounting
- Finance - GAAP
- Finance - Sox Compliance
**Competencies**
- Finance - CPA
- Personal Skills - Stress Management
- Personal Skills - Attention to Detail
- Software Skills - Hyperion Financial Management
- Personal Skills - Self Motivated
- Personal Skills - Analytical Skills
- Personal Skills - Time/Priority Management
- Software Skills - Microsoft Word
- Software Skills - Microsoft Excel
- Personal Skills - Work Independently
- Software Skills - SAP
- Personal Skills - Work on a Team
- Leader of Self - Instills Trust
- Leader of Self - Action Oriented
- Leader of Self - Collaborates
- Leader of Self - Customer Focus
- Leader of Self - Situational Adaptability
- Leader of Self - Being Resilient
- Leader of Self - Demonstrates Self-Awareness
- Leader of Self - Communicates Effectively
**Environmental, Health, Safety, & Security (EHS&S) Requirements**
- Avient integrates EHS&S into all aspects of our operations. Each position at Avient is responsible for complying with all applicable EHS&S requirements. Additionally, employees and management are responsible for reporting all EHS&S incidents immediately to ensure we keep EHS&S a priority within the organization.
Security includes physical security and cyber security.
**Who We Are**
Avient Corporation provides specialized and sustainable material solutions that transform customer challenges into opportunities, bringing new products to life for a better world. Examples include:
- Unique technologies that improve the recyclability of products and enable recycled content to be incorporated, thus advancing a more circular economy
- Light-weighting solutions that replace heavier traditional materials like metal, glass and wood, which can improve fuel efficiency in all modes of transportation and reduce carbon footprint
- Sustainable infrastructure solutions that increase energy efficiency, renewable energy, natural resource conservation and fiber optic / 5G network accessibility
**Why Avient**
Avient Corporation is a world-class sustainable organization built on innovation, collaboration, and employee development. We are committed to providing a supportive and dynamic work environment where our diverse associates can grow and succeed, as well positively impacting our planet and the communities we serve. Our Great Place to Work culture, values, and benefits make Avient an employer of choice for top talent.
At Avient, we believe diversity of ideas and backgrounds gives us the creativity to be successful in a rapidly changing world. In support of this, we stress equality of opportunity for all qualified individuals in accordance with applicable laws. Decisions on hiring, promotion, development, compensation or advancement are based solely on a person's qualifications, abilities, experience and performance.