Accounting and Tax Specialist

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets.

At Elanco, we are driven by our vision of Food and Companionship Enriching Life and our purpose – all to Go Beyond for Animals, Customers, Society and Our People.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.

We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success.

Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Your Role:

The Accounting and Tax Associate will be responsible for accounting, financial reporting, controls and compliance related to the Elanco Animal Health business.

The role will include collaborating with the affiliate operations finance team, the corporate accounting team.

The Accounting and Tax Associate will assume the stewardship of key accounting processes (O2C, P2P, R2R), performing monthly closing entries, supporting internal, external audits, tax compliance as well as working capital management.

These responsibilities will be performed in close alignment with the CFO ASEAN Bangladesh & India and Accounting & Tax Manager.

Your Responsibilities:


* Accounting & General



* Prepare necessary monthly closing entries by working closely with the business partners to determine what, if any, activities occurred during the month that require manual journal entries


* Support monthly closing of books, including JV preparation, Trial Balance commentaries, Balance Sheet Reconciliations.


* Execute all local legal entity transformation activities as directed by Corporate Tax team and Corporate Accounting team


* Evolve into the local Super User (key user) for key accounting processes impacting financial reporting including but not limited to O2C, P2P and R2R


* Act as key subject matter expert on Local GAAP policy/procedures interpretation.


* Participate in any data migration and/or management activities, related to financial accounting processes.


* Provide accounting guidance to the local business partners on the treatment of transaction as and when arises



* Controls


* Demonstrate a strong compliance-oriented mindset & help to build a strong compliance culture.


* Awareness of all applicable financial/taxation standards, process documentation & training materials to ensure compliant execution of daily operations.


* Ensure ownership of all applicable financial reporting and operational controls as well as broader oversight for all controls that influence the financial statements.


* Proactively monitor and anticipate changing business, regulatory, a...