As an Accounting Analyst at Maersk, located in Mexico City, you will execute end-to-end ATR activities, manage month-end close processes, perform balance-sheet reconciliations, and ensure financial compliance. This is a full-time role requiring professional proficiency in both Spanish and English.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field (accounting background preferred).
Previous experience in accounting, shared services, logistics, multinational companies, or accounting firms is preferred.
Intermediate Excel skills, including formulas, lookups, pivot tables, and data validation.
Professional written and verbal communication skills in Spanish and English.
No specific minimum years of experience are strictly mandated in the posting.
Skills & Responsibilities
General Accounting: Execute daily and month-end accounting activities, including journal entries, accruals, and reclassifications in accordance with SOPs.
Account Reconciliations: Perform balance-sheet account reconciliations and follow up on open items, aged balances, and reconciling items within agreed timelines.
Financial Reporting: Prepare reliable supporting schedules, account analyses, monthly reports, and variance explanations for reporting requirements.
Audit Support: Prepare requested documentation, respond to queries, and support internal and external audit requirements.
Potential transition routes: People from junior accounting, financial auditing, or general bookkeeping roles may bring foundational accounting and reconciliation skills, alongside meeting the language and analytical requirements of this position.
Job description
Purpose
Execute and support end-to-end ATR activities for assigned entities, ensuring accurate and timely accounting, reconciliations, reporting, and compliance with established SOPs, controls, and service-level commitments. The role supports month-end close, audit requirements, balance-sheet quality, issue resolution, and continuous process improvement, while maintaining clear and timely communication with internal stakeholders and other finance teams.
Key Responsibilities
Execute daily and month-end accounting activities in accordance with defined SOPs, accounting policies, controls, and close calendars.
Prepare, review, and post accounting entries, accruals, reclassifications, provisions, reversals, and other transactions within the assigned scope.
Perform balance-sheet account reconciliations and follow up on open items, aged balances, reconciling items, and required clean-up actions within agreed timelines.
Prepare reliable supporting schedules, account analyses, monthly reports, and variance explanations for balance sheet, P&L, cash flow, and other reporting requirements.
Support financial reporting activities and ensure information submitted to reporting and consolidation tools is complete, accurate, properly classified, and supported.
Monitor assigned controls and maintain complete audit trails and supporting documentation in line with internal control and compliance requirements.
Support external and internal audits by preparing requested documentation, responding to samples and queries, tracking pending requirements, and escalating risks that may affect audit deadlines.
Coordinate with Finance, Tax, OTC, PTP, FinOps, Treasury, local business teams, and other process owners to resolve accounting differences, pending transactions, and data-quality issues.
Identify process or system issues, perform initial root-cause analysis, document findings, and escalate technical or functional matters with clear evidence and proposed next steps.
Monitor deadlines and SLAs, proactively communicate delays, risks, dependencies, and unresolved items to the ATR Supervisor or Team Lead, and follow through until closure.
Maintain trackers for open items, audit requests, reconciliations, corrections, and agreed actions, ensuring owners and target dates are clearly documented.
Participate in implementation of new system functionalities, process changes, testing, data validation, and stabilization activities affecting ATR processes.
Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, or automate recurring activities and provide data and practical recommendations to support continuous improvement.
Act as a knowledgeable point of contact for assigned processes, sharing guidance with team members and supporting onboarding and cross-training when required.
Critical Qualifications / Skills / Experience
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field; accounting background preferred.
Previous experience in accounting, shared services, logistics, multinational companies, or accounting firms is preferred.
Working knowledge of general accounting, journal entries, account reconciliations, month-end close, balance-sheet analysis, and financial reporting.
Intermediate Excel skills, including formulas, lookups, pivot tables, data validation, and handling of large datasets.
Experience with ERP and financial reporting/reconciliation tools is desirable; ability to learn new systems quickly is essential.
Professional written and verbal communication skills in Spanish and English, with the ability to prepare clear business explanations and follow-ups.
Strong organization and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet strict close and audit deadlines.
Analytical and problem-solving mindset, attention to detail, ownership, and ability to identify root causes and propose practical solutions.
Ability to collaborate effectively across teams and functions in a multicultural environment.
Adaptability and ability to work effectively under pressure and in changing business conditions.
High standards of integrity, confidentiality, governance, and professional ethics.
Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, colour, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or parental leave, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.
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