Financial Reporting Senior Associate
Job Description
**About the Role**
As a Senior Associate, you will perform activities that include (but are not limited to) preparation of financial statements and corporate tax returns for our entities in LATAM, ultimately owning this compliance for our team. This include delivery of accurate and complete information to our compliance partners, review of monthly and quarterly tax returns, support statutory external audits and perform other ad-hoc activities including tax audit support.
**What the Candidate Will Do**
- Responsible for financial reporting and corporate tax compliance in LATAM, ensuring adherence to all deadlines.
- Communicate clearly to all stakeholders, particularly your leadership team.
- Maintains a project plan and calendar for all compliance deliverables in conjunction with our global compliance partner to ensure adherence to all deadlines.
- Understands our business, operating model and processes in relation to local regulations and requirements. Works closely with our compliance partner to ensure changes to local requirements are communicated and understood.
- Works closely with the third party global compliance partner to ensure accurate and complete information is provided in a timely manner. Manages all requests for information and data to support preparation of reporting deliverables and ad-hoc requests.
- Identifies process improvements which will increase efficiency or address service levels with the compliance partner as needed.
- Actively manages budgeted versus actual compliance fees for assigned entities, communicating any anticipated changes to the respective parties.
- Assist in the preparation of financial statements and management reporting - ensuring all monthly adjustments to the US GAAP ledger are reviewed by the Reporting Manager.
- Responsible for providing explanations on periodical variance analysis of specific entities.
- Monitors status on all compliance deadlines on a daily basis and communicates any concerns and anticipated issues to the Reporting Manager, seeking to resolve wherever possible.
- Prepares for and participates in weekly compliance calls with the regional team.
- Supports information requests related to new country and product launches as needed.
- Works independently to research and resolve individual inquiries related to such requests liaising with accounting and tax as needed.
- Stays abreast of regional reporting developments to ensure requirements, current process and reporting remains relevant.
- Keeps up to date on upcoming changes to the compliance landscape and determines how these changes will impact the existing compliance process.
- Review of statutory GL account reconciliations on a monthly/quarterly basis and preparation of direct and indirect tax US GAAP balance sheet GL account reconciliations on a quarterly basis.
**Basic Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
- 6+ years of experience in financial reporting, month-end close experience, etc
- Experience with requirements for US GAAP to local statutory conversion and preparation the monthly US GAAP to STAT adjustments entries
- Fluent Spanish and English
- A strong understanding of fundamental accounting concepts, principles and tax
- Team player, have ability to work independently and willingness to take on challenges
- Strong communication skills and ability to communicate key information and status to stakeholders
- CPA/CA/ACCA or equivalent qualification
**Bonus Points**
- Experience with Oracle R12 or another large scale ERP
- Big 4 experience
We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world forward, together.
Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber’s cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.
\*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to [accommodations@uber.com](mailto:accommodations@uber.com).