Accountant - Compliance, Tax & Treasury

About Appen

Appen is a leader in AI enablement for critical tasks such as model improvement, supervision, and evaluation. To do this we leverage our global crowd of over one million skilled contractors, speaking over 180 languages and dialects, representing 130 countries. In addition, we utilize the industry's most advanced AI-assisted data annotation platform to collect and label various types of data like images, text, speech, audio, and video.

Our data is crucial for building and continuously improving the world's most innovative artificial intelligence systems and Appen is already trusted by the world's largest technology companies. Now with the explosion of interest in generative AI, Appen is helping leaders in automotive, financial services, retail, healthcare, and governments the confidence to deploy world-class AI products.

At Appen, we are purpose driven. Our fundamental role in AI is to ensure all models are helpful, honest, and harmless, so we firmly believe in unlocking the power of AI to build a better world. We have a learn-it-all culture that values perspective, growth, and innovation. We are customer-obsessed, action-oriented, and celebrate winning together.

At Appen, we are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

The purpose of this position is to ensure accurate and timely cash flow reporting and analysis as well as being the subject matter expert and administrator for banking, credit cards, and other key finance processes (compliance, tax and treasury).

Responsibilities

• Required for 3+yrs of experience in Accountant, Compliance, Tax & Treasury.
• Experience working in Global business.
• Preparation and analysis of weekly cash flow reporting, including liaising with applicable finance team members to ensure timely preparation.
• Preparation of monthly cash flow forecast, including analysis and reconciliation back to forecast profit and loss statements.
• Preparation of regulatory filings for various countries.
• Preparation of direct and indirect tax returns for various countries.
• Banking administrator and subject matter expert, including managing online portals, portal access creation and maintenance, first level relationship with bank contacts, troubleshooting payment issues, account creation documentation, and any other matters as they arise.
• Credit card administrator and subject matter expert, including managing online portals, first level relationship with account contacts, internal support for credit card users, ensuring cards are issued and cancelled in a timely manner, and any other matters as they arise.
• Delegated authority [approval matrix] administrator, including maintaining the approval matrix when employees start or exit, ensuring approval limits are correctly reflected in the ERP, and answering queries in relation to the approval matrix.
• SharePoint/OneDrive administrator and subject matter expert for the finance division, including maintaining existing structure and security, working with the IT team to ensure access aligns with applicable roles, assigning access as needed.
• DocuSign administrator and subject matter expert for the finance division, including maintaining existing workflows and rolling out new workflows as and when needed.
• Provide superior customer service both within and outside the finance division.
• Ad hoc tasks as directed by the Controllership team or CFO.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent English – both written and verbal.
• Excellent attention to detail, ability to prioritise and consistently meet deadlines.
• Advanced MS Excel.
• Intermediate MS PowerPoint, Word, Outlook.
• Experience using large ERP Systems (Workday advantageous).

Appen is the global leader in data for the AI Lifecycle with more than 25 years’ experience in data sourcing, annotation, and model evaluation. Through our expertise, platform, and global crowd, we enable organizations to launch the world’s most innovative artificial intelligence products with speed and at scale. Appen maintains the industry’s most advanced AI-assisted data annotation platform and boasts a global crowd of more than 1 million contributors worldwide, speaking more than 235 languages. Our products and services make Appen a trusted partner to leaders in technology, automotive, finance, retail, healthcare, and government. Appen has customers and offices globally.