Senior Consolidation & Reporting Analyst
Panasonic Automotive North America
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Job summary
Panasonic Automotive North America is seeking a senior consolidation and reporting lead to manage monthly, quarterly, and annual close across North American entities. This role partners with international finance teams to ensure IFRS-compliant, timely, and well-controlled results.
You will own journal entries, intercompany eliminations, data integrity, and management reporting while driving process improvements and SOX readiness where applicable. Strong ERP and analytics skills are essential.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field.
- 5+ years of progressive accounting or finance experience, preferably including financial consolidation, corporate accounting, or financial reporting in a multinational manufacturing environment.
- Working knowledge of IFRS, month-end close, financial statement analysis, intercompany accounting, internal controls, and audit support.
- Experience across multiple legal entities, facilities, currencies, or countries with tight close deadlines.
- Advanced ERP and financial systems proficiency; SAP and OneStream/Hyperion familiarity is highly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Execute monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidation and reporting activities for North American entities, ensuring accurate and timely IFRS financial information.
- Prepare and support consolidating and top-side journal entries, intercompany eliminations and reconciliations, foreign currency translation, and other consolidation adjustments.
- Validate and reconcile data from SAP and local trial balances to the consolidation/reporting system; maintain mappings and reporting hierarchies.
- Prepare and analyze consolidated balance sheet, income statement, cash flow, working capital, and other schedules; investigate variances and trends.
- Partner with operating locations and international finance teams to resolve close issues and improve submission quality.
- Support actual, forecast, budget, and long-range planning consolidation; develop management reporting and variance explanations for leadership.
- Maintain knowledge of IFRS, policies, and internal controls; research accounting questions with guidance.
- Support audit requests, control documentation, remediation activities, and SOX/public-company readiness as applicable.
- Serve as a power user for reporting and consolidation tools; provide training and support to finance users.
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Job description
Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidation and reporting process for Panasonic Automotive's North American locations, partnering with international finance teams to deliver accurate, timely, and well-controlled IFRS financial results. Combine hands-on consolidation accounting, financial analysis, systems and data integrity, internal controls, management reporting, and continuous improvement, with significant exposure to functional leadership across the organization.
Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidation and reporting process for Panasonic Automotive's North American locations, partnering with international finance teams to deliver accurate, timely, and well-controlled IFRS financial results. Combine hands-on consolidation accounting, financial analysis, systems and data integrity, internal controls, management reporting, and continuous improvement, with significant exposure to functional leadership across the organization.
- Execute monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidation and reporting activities for North American entities, ensuring accurate and timely IFRS financial information.
- Prepare and support consolidating and top-side journal entries, intercompany eliminations and reconciliations, foreign currency translation, and other consolidation adjustments.
- Validate and reconcile data from SAP and local trial balances to the consolidation/reporting system; maintain and review account and entity mappings, reporting hierarchies, and data submissions.
- Prepare and analyze consolidated balance sheet, income statement, cash flow, working capital, and other financial reporting schedules; investigate significant variances and unusual trends.
- Partner with operating locations and international finance teams to resolve close issues, improve submission quality, and provide transactional accounting and reporting guidance.
- Support actual, forecast, budget, and long-range planning consolidation; prepare clear management reporting and variance explanations, and develop and present analyses that translate complex financial data into clear conclusions, risks, and recommended actions for finance and business leaders.
- Maintain strong working knowledge of IFRS, Company accounting policies, and internal controls. Research accounting questions and prepare supporting documentation or technical accounting analyses under manager guidance.
- Support internal and external audit requests, account reconciliation reviews, control documentation, remediation activities, and SOX/public-company readiness activities where applicable.
- Serve as a power user for financial reporting and consolidation tools; support reporting templates, workflows, system testing, and process documentation, and provide training and support to finance users and operating locations on consolidation requirements, reporting tools, close procedures, and recurring reporting expectations.
- Assist with acquisition integration, new entity setup, chart-of-accounts mapping, ERP/reporting system changes, and special projects impacting consolidated financial reporting.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field; Accounting degree preferred.
- 5+ years of progressive accounting or finance experience, preferably including financial consolidation, corporate accounting, or financial reporting in a multinational manufacturing environment.
- Working knowledge of IFRS, month-end close, financial statement analysis, intercompany accounting, internal controls, and audit support.
- Experience working across multiple legal entities, facilities, currencies, or countries and managing time-sensitive close and reporting deadlines.
- Strong ERP and financial systems proficiency; SAP experience preferred and familiarity with OneStream, Hyperion/HFM, Workiva, or a similar consolidation/reporting platform strongly preferred.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and strong PowerPoint/reporting capabilities.
- Preferred: CPA or CMA certification (or active progress toward certification); MBA, Master's degree in Accounting/Finance, or public accounting experience; automotive or global manufacturing experience supporting multiple facilities or business units.
- Preferred: Hands-on experience with OneStream or another enterprise consolidation platform (journal entries, mappings, reconciliations, workflows, or reporting); budgeting/forecasting, management reporting, balance sheet reviews, cash flow analysis, or external reporting support; Power BI, data visualization, or finance automation tools
- Great Medical/Dental Benefits
- Company-Matched 401K Retirement Savings
- Annual Bonus Program
- Educational Assistance
- Relaxed Dress Code
- PASATalks Speaker Summits
- Leadership & Mentorship Programs
- High5 Reward Recognition Program
- Onsite Happy Hours
- And many more benefits & perks found within the ‘Our Culture’ section…
At Panasonic, our technology and engineering expertise delivers innovation across diverse industries. It's all about the consumer experience and making sure that we find ways to enhance that experience, either through audio enhancements or through safety enhancements inside the vehicle.
Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America (PASA) is an industry-leading global supplier to Automotive Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s) for infotainment systems and advanced connected car solutions. Our clients include Ford, GM, Chrysler, Daimler, Fiat, Tesla, Honda, Toyota.
Panasonic is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to: race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law. All qualified individuals are required to perform the essential functions of the job with our without reasonable accommodations.
Due to the high volume of responses, we will only be able to respond to candidates of interest. All candidates must have valid authorization to work in the U.S. Thank you for your interest in Panasonic Automotive Systems of America.
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