Finance- Quality Assurance Analyst

Perform General Ledger functions; assure accuracy, timeliness, and conformity with professional accounting standards and best practices in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)
- Identify, interpret and analyze potential accounting risks and issues
- Research and analyze accounting transactions and contracts
- Identify and execute internal controls, SOX compliance and financial procedures
- Partner with Finance to determine accounting implications of transactions and perform analytical analyses to utilize when making all material business decisions
- Assist with internal and external financial reporting - including analyzing consolidated results, drafting SEC documents and management review reports, ensuring quality, and administering strict timeline
- Evaluate current accounting practices and policies and drive continuous improvement
- Research and interpret new accounting standards and brainstorm how each applies to GM as well as comply with external 10-Q/10-K reporting requirements
- Provides direction to a team of individuals with similar functional responsibility

**Additional Job Description**
- Perform quality review of account reconciliations to ensure compliance with policy, identify issues, and report findings and trends to management
- Perform quality review of journal entries to ensure compliance with policy, identify issues, and report findings and trends to management
- Perform risk assessments to determine monthly sample testing populations
- Perform QA assessments of potential work to be migrated to GBS as requested by Leadership
- Identify additional areas of operational QA focus
- Support the Financial Assurance Business Plan Deployment, Metric and Score Card processes
- Provide analysis, consultation and decision support to operational functions
- Facilitate problem resolution and analysis
- Frequent communication and coordination with global, cross functional, and third party providers
- Proactively identify issues, opportunities, implement positive change, and process improvements

**Knowledge/Skills**
- Strong Accounting and Internal Control Skills
- Demonstrated problem solving and analytical abilities where problems are complex
- Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated commitment to teamwork and partnerships
- Strong oral and written communication skills with personnel at all levels
- Strong networking and collaboration skills with personnel at all levels
- Knowledge and understanding of corporate/unit policies and procedures
- Ability to prioritize assignments/projects and multi-task within restricted time constraints
- Ability to adapt quickly to changing environment
- Highly proficient in computer and technology driven skills
- Demonstrated ability to work with mínimal supervision on unstructured assignments

**Experience/Education**
- College degree in Accounting/Finance
- 3+ years public accounting experience
- 4+ years overall experience with accounting/internal controls
- 1+ years quality assurance experience (Account Reconciliation/MJE quality assurance highly preferred)
- SAP Desirable

**Hybrid Position (Work at home and 3 days a week at the plant)**

Diversity and inclusion are our strengths. We respect and value what each individual brings to our team, including their background, education, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender expression and/or identity, religious background, age, generation, and disability. We believe that our ability to meet the needs and expectations of an increasingly diverse and global customer base is closely linked to the diversity and inclusion that we experience within General Motors.

**About GM**

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

**Why Join Us**

We aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. We believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Our Work Appropriately philosophy supports our foundation of inclusion and provides employees the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact on achieving our goals, dependent on role needs. Every day, we want every employee, no matter their background, ethnicity, preferences, or location, to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

**Diversity Information**

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers. We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteeropportunities.