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Signify

Record to Report Accounting Specialist (Panamá City, Panamá)

YesterdayPanamá, Panama

We're looking for a Record to Report Accounting Specialist to join our Record to Report Finance team in Panama City, Panama.

Working for Signify means being creative and adaptive. Our culture of continuous learning and commitment to diversity and inclusion creates an environment that allows you to build your skills and career. Together, we're transforming our industry.

As the world leader in lighting, we're constantly ahead of the curve. Through our leadership in connected lighting and the Internet of Things, we're breaking new grounds in data analytics, AI, and smart homes, offices, cities and more!

Signify is one of the few companies in the world to achieve carbon neutrality and our next sustainability goals are even bolder: doubling our positive impact on the environment and society by 2025.



Working at Signify is dynamic. You'll be part of a highly efficient RTR organization, operating at benchmark cost levels, monitoring and ensuring that all business events and transactions are translated first time right into our financials to ensure accounting integrity. We're greater together through peer learning in our globally diverse team, with different backgrounds and nationalities.

We're looking for an Accounting Specialist who'll be responsible for supporting the Record to Report end-to-end processes and Month End Closing on designated organizations. You'll be part of the Signify Record to Report Team at the Panama Finance Service Center, so Passion for Results, Game Changer, Greater Together and Customer First values must be in your DNA.

We're on the lookout for forward-thinking innovators with a passion for sustainability. If you match this description, get in touch!

What you'll do
  • Coordinate the Month End Closing process in collaboration with internal and external parties.
  • Review that all balances and movements are correctly held and that adequate reconciliations are available, responsible for E2E Balance Sheet Account Reconciliation process (BSAR) and Continuous Controlling.
  • Verify compliance with accounting standards and regulations (Signify Accounting Principles, IFRS, local regulations, ICS).
  • Supports audits with documentation, reports, processes, and explanations.
  • Participate in projects and other continuous improvements efforts for Month end closing and other financial objectives.
Your qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree completed in Accounting.
  • 3+ years of related accounting experience.
  • Knowledge of end-to-end finance and accounting processes.
  • ERP knowledge, preferably SAP, Blackline, Runbook, AICO (desirable).
  • Fluent in English is MANDATORY.
  • Portuguese is a plus.
This is a mid-senior position.

Location: Panamá City, Panamá (hybrid).

Who we are?

Signify is the world leader in lighting. We provide professional customers and consumers with quality, energy-efficient LED lighting. And our lights, when connected, bring data to devices, apps and people - redefining what light can do and how you use it. Today, our innovations, such as LiFi - internet connectivity through light - and UV-C, solar and horticultural lighting, contribute to a safer, smarter, more sustainable world.

We're operating in 74 countries with 32,000 people worldwide.

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Client-provided location(s): Panama City, Panamá Province, Panama
Job ID: PhilipsLighting-346536
Employment Type: Full Time