Sr. Accountant II - Consolidation Accounting & GL Governance

At Lummus Technology, innovation thrives, and excellence is a shared pursuit. When you join Lummus, you are empowered to make an impact and be part of a dynamic team that celebrates creativity, encourages professional development, and fosters collaboration.
From our technology portfolio to our global workforce, Lummus is growing at a rapid pace, and we hope that you will grow with us during this exciting time.
Lead assigned consolidation accounting activities and govern financial general ledger and master-data processes. Support monthly, quarterly and annual legal-entity and group consolidation under Manager’s direction, ensuring timely close execution, accurate consolidation entries, reliable reconciliations and documented controls. Coordinate the broader consolidation package, incorporating intercompany deliverables from the Global Intercompany Specialist.
Key Responsibilities
Consolidation accounting and close
Coordinate close and consolidation deliverables across legal entities with Corporate Accounting, FP&A and regional finance teams.
Prepare and maintain non-intercompany consolidation schedules and rollforwards, incorporating intercompany schedules into the consolidated close package.
Prepare consolidation journals, including eliminations, reclassifications and top-side adjustments, with complete supporting documentation for independent review.
Reconcile consolidated balance-sheet and income-statement accounts, investigate variances and drive timely resolution of reconciling items.
Review entity submissions, journals, account reconciliations and supporting schedules for completeness, accuracy and compliance with the group close calendar.
Support foreign-entity submissions, FX translation, currency translation adjustments and related analysis under approved policies and Shelby’s review.
Assist with consolidated financial statements and internal reporting packages, including consolidation variance analysis and explanations of period-over-period movements.
GL and master-data governance
Govern the chart of accounts, financial dimensions and accounting mappings.
Coordinate approved changes and period-opening and closing procedures with local finance and IT.
Oversee controlled creation, amendment and deactivation of vendor, customer and item financial data.
Maintain approval workflows, duplicate checks and periodic master-data reviews.
Restrict item-master responsibilities to financial fields and accounting mappings.
Controls, team oversight and improvement
Maintain close and consolidation procedures, control documentation and audit evidence.
Coordinate audit requests, follow up on control remediation and escalate unresolved exceptions to Shelby.
Supervise assigned work, review quality and maintain backup coverage.
Support reporting improvements, close optimization and system enhancements with Finance, IT and Process Excellence & Automation.
Accountability boundaries
Shelby retains overall consolidation ownership and group-level review.
The Global Intercompany Specialist prepares the intercompany component of the consolidation package.
Transaction Services retains routine transaction processing outside this role’s consolidation accounting and GL governance responsibilities.
Treasury retains collections, cash management and payment authority.
Technical-accounting policy owners retain policy decisions; this role implements approved policies.
IT retains technical administration and security provisioning. Business owners approve underlying master-data information.
Separate requesting, maintaining and approving sensitive master-data changes, including independent verification of vendor bank-detail changes.
Independent audit assurance remains outside the processes this role operates or reviews.
Qualifications And Experience
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance, an accounting qualification, or equivalent relevant experience, subject to HR confirmation.
Strong consolidation close, balance-sheet reconciliation and US GAAP experience.
Practical multi-entity consolidation, financial-reporting and FX translation experience appropriate to Senior Level 2.
Experience with GL administration, master-data workflows, SOX controls and segregation of duties.
Excel proficiency, including pivot tables and lookups.
Experience with JD Edwards, OneStream or comparable ERP and consolidation systems.
Ability to coordinate distributed teams and resolve cross-functional ownership issues.
Strong analytical skills, attention to detail and clear communication. Public-company or audit exposure is a plus.
Measures of success
Timely close activities, consolidation schedules, reporting packages and reconciliation reviews.
Reduction in aged reconciling items, journal corrections and master-data errors.
Master-data requests completed within agreed service times with complete approval evidence.
Timely remediation of control exceptions. Set numerical targets after establishing a baseline.
Lummus Technology is the global leader in developing technology solutions that make modern life possible and focus on a more sustainable, low carbon future. We license process technologies in clean fuels, renewables, petrochemicals, polymers, gas processing and supply lifecycle services, catalysts, proprietary equipment and digitalization to customers worldwide.
Lummus Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to any protected characteristic under applicable law. Applicant information will be processed in accordance with applicable privacy and data protection laws.

Work arrangement
Hybrid