Senior Accountant

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As a Senior Accountant within JLL's controllership team, you'll support financial operations for Brazil with specialized responsibility for intercompany accounting, tax and fiscal operations, and accounts receivable management. This position combines technical accounting expertise with business partnership, where you'll be responsible for maintaining the integrity of JLL's financial statements while managing all intercompany transactions between all JLL's legal entities. You'll execute comprehensive accounting activities including month-end close processes, balance sheet reconciliations, tax and fiscal management, and financial reporting, while also serving as the intercompany process owner. This role reports to the Brazil Controller and works closely with local finance teams, Treasury, Tax, Accounts Receivable, and Global Operations teams. This position offers valuable exposure to international accounting operations, complex consolidation processes, Brazilian tax compliance, and the opportunity to develop specialized technical skills within a dynamic real estate services environment.

What your day-to-day will look like:

Month-End Close & Financial Reporting:

• Lead month-end close activities, ensuring compliance with US GAAP, local accounting standards, and JLL policies.
• Execute comprehensive balance sheet reconciliation processes, maintaining detailed account analyses, investigating variances, and ensuring timely resolution of reconciling items to support financial statement accuracy.
• Manage multi-currency accounting activities including foreign exchange impact analysis.
• Prepare comprehensive P&L and Balance Sheet variance analysis, identifying trends and explaining financial performance drivers to support finance and business leadership with meaningful insights.

Intercompany Operations Management:

• Maintain intercompany standing data for treasury transactions.
• Create and issue intercompany invoices, ensuring tax and accounting compliance.
• Manage settlement of intercompany transactions through netting processes.
• Execute intercompany wire transfers and manage applicable exchange rates.
• Identify, log, track, and resolve disputes related to intercompany in collaboration with the COE team.
• Review and confirm intercompany balances for accuracy and compliance.
• Supervise and execute the complete intercompany accounting process for transactions between all JLL's legal entities, with consistent registration in both entities involved.
• Perform monthly intercompany account reconciliations during month-end closing, identifying and resolving differences in amounts, timing, or accounting classification, coordinating with local finance teams to ensure accurate and timely monthly closes.
• Prepare detailed analyses of intercompany balances and movements, generating reports for regional and corporate management, providing explanations for significant variations and trends in intercompany operations.
• Ensure compliance with corporate transfer pricing policies, local and international accounting policies (IFRS/US GAAP as applicable), and audit requirements, maintaining and enhancing internal controls related to intercompany operations.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for intercompany operation inquiries for Brazil.
• Work closely with local finance teams, Treasury, Tax, and global corporate teams.

Billing and Revenue Recognition:

• Possess solid knowledge in service invoice billing processes, ensuring compliance with current Brazilian tax legislation.
• Actively monitor changes resulting from the tax reform in Brazil, assessing impacts on JLL's operations and implementing necessary adjustments to tax and accounting processes.
• Ensure correct tax and fiscal classification of transactions, including ISS, PIS, COFINS, IRPJ, CSLL, and other applicable taxes.
• Possess comprehensive knowledge of withholding taxes on billing, including IRRF (Income Tax Withheld at Source), CSRF (Social Contribution Withheld at Source - PIS, COFINS, and CSLL), INSS, and ISS, ensuring correct calculation, withholding, recording, and payment of these taxes.
• Collaborate with the Tax team to ensure tax compliance and tax optimization of operations.
• Review and validate tax documents to ensure accuracy and compliance with local regulations and internal policies.
• Support tax audit processes and meet requirements from regulatory and supervisory bodies.

Accounts Receivable Management and Revenue Recognition:

• Possess comprehensive knowledge in accounts receivable processes, including aging analysis, credit management, and collections.
• Perform detailed analysis of documents for revenue recognition according to criteria established by US GAAP and IFRS 15, ensuring that revenues are recognized in the correct period and in accordance with contractual performance obligations.
• Execute revenue accruals when necessary, ensuring that all earned but not yet billed revenues are properly recorded in the monthly close.
• Monitor and analyze accounts receivable balances, identifying trends, credit risks, and opportunities for improvement in collection processes.
• Collaborate with business and operations teams to resolve issues related to billing, collections, and revenue recognition.
• Prepare analyses and reports on accounts receivable performance for financial management.

Audit Coordination & Process Improvement:

• Coordinate and support internal and external audit activities, preparing thorough work papers, responding to auditor inquiries, and ensuring complete documentation of accounting, tax processes, and controls.
• Identify automation and process improvement opportunities in both general accounting and intercompany operations, tax, and accounts receivable, leading initiatives to increase efficiency and reduce error risk, participating in system and tool implementations that facilitate streamlined financial management.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field with 3-5 years of progressive accounting experience in corporate environments or multinational organizations, with at least 2 years specifically focused on intercompany operations in multinational environments.
• Trilingual fluency in Portuguese, English, and Spanish required for effective communication with all stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP and/or IFRS with demonstrated ability to apply accounting standards and principles to complex transactions, including specific experience with intercompany accounting treatments, eliminations, and revenue recognition (IFRS 15/ASC 606).
• Proven knowledge of Brazilian tax legislation, including ISS, PIS, COFINS, IRPJ, CSLL, and service invoice issuance processes.
• Solid knowledge of withholding taxes on billing, including IRRF, CSRF (PIS, COFINS, and CSLL), INSS, and ISS.
• Familiarity with the Brazilian tax reform and ability to monitor legislative and regulatory changes, assessing their impacts on business operations.
• Experience in accounts receivable management, credit analysis, revenue accruals, and revenue recognition.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in high-volume environments with strong orientation toward meeting deadlines, particularly during financial closing periods, and ability to work under pressure.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to effectively interact with stakeholders at various levels and from different countries, explaining complex accounting and tax concepts clearly and influencing teams without direct authority.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with ERP systems such as PeopleSoft, SalesForce, Oracle JDE E1, or similar platforms, with familiarity in automated reconciliation tools being a plus.
• Experience with SOX compliance and internal controls testing valuable for supporting robust control environments and audit readiness.
• Previous experience in senior or leadership positions within regional accounting teams, demonstrating ability to coordinate cross-functional initiatives and drive process improvements.

Location:

Remote –Belen, CRI

If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements.  We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!

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