Senior Accountant - Project & Fixed Asset Accounting

At Air Products, we reimagine what’s possible. By tapping into the motivation of our people and our collective experience, we create the ideas and innovations that drive us forward. When we come together – where every voice is heard and everyone knows they belong and matter – we create solutions that launch people into space, support lifesaving care in hospitals, and enable the construction of groundbreaking, world scale production facilities.

Reimagine What’s Possible 

About the role

• Responsible for all accounting aspects of projects in the SAP project system to ensure compliance with corporate policy and finance standard, including:
  • ensuring projects established in SAP with the appropriate approval, monitoring the projects for timely capitalization, accurately recording revenue associated with Sale of Equipment projects, handling intercompany project billing,
  • supporting Global Megaprojects review.
  • supporting M&A projects and SAP data migration related to projects.
  • posting of journal entries, and analysing reports, and
  • balance sheet reconciliations and reviewing.

• Coordination with other finance, business, and operation departments to process transactions and review master data, including project cost review
• Support Team Lead to solve the issues or handle the complex issue in Project realm, identify the potential exposure and work on remediation plan. 
• Support Team Lead to provide process support with the goal of streamlining and simplifying accounting processes while ensuring accuracy and integrity of data. Seek the chance of automation.
• Identify root cause and drive process improvements to rectify errors and process gaps.
• Work independently and meet deadlines with minimal supervision.
• Other duties assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance (or equivalent)
• At least 4 years of working experience in audit with CPA/ACCA (or equivalent); additional finance-related working experience in MNC with SAP knowledge is a plus; Or, at least 6 years of working experience in MNC with SAP knowledge.
• Strong foundation in accounting principles and practices; US GAAP knowledge is a plus.
• Related general accounting experience and knowledge in the areas of Project Accounting or Fixed Assets Accounting for more than 5 years is expected. A basic understanding of the shared service environment is a plus.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, strong desire to learn, independent initiative, customer focus, adaptability to change, and a proven ability to effectively analyze and solve the problems in the daily operation.
• Self-motivated team player with effective interpersonal and communication skills, and high ethical standards.
• Preferred language skill (Mandarin).
• Additional automation skill (e.g.: Qlik Sense, QlikView, BW, Python etc) is a plus.

Founded in 1940, Air Products is a world-leading industrial gases company and has a proud history of innovation, operational excellence, with an unwavering commitment to safety and environmental stewardship. Working together, we are taking our passion and diverse backgrounds forward to reimagine what’s possible and generate a cleaner future for our customers, our communities, and the world.