Sr Accountant

Avient
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📍 Shanghai, ChinaFull time

About this role

The Senior Corporate Accountant supports Asia finance group in a key finance role and is responsible for finance process improvements through various digitalization and automation tools to enable overall finance team efficiency and faster financial data flows to support with better business decisions. Additionally, this role assists with our finance community training culture, as well as ad-hoc finance operational excellence projects.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities 

  • Understand core finance processes and data logics, participate in financial data-flow and process analysis to identify repetitive tasks suitable for automation.
  • Gather and analyze business requirements from various finance functions to develop and apply emerging technologies to support finance process optimization and automation, collaborate with IT resources to design practical implementation solutions, drive projects completion and enhancements for ongoing business requirements, as well as assisting in establishing standardized processes and operating procedures.
  • Support data integration efforts by connecting business and finance users, enabling the automated, accurate, and seamless flow of data across platforms and develop dashboards that transform complex financial information into clear visual insights, providing management with intuitive and actionable decision support.
  • Rotate with accounting and costing processes to drive cost reduction and operational efficiencies initiatives.
  • Performs other special projects as needed.

 

Scope

This role faces several key customers as part of both daily responsibilities and as part of project teams, including Manufacturing Finance, Business Unit Finance, Corporate Analytical Finance and IT group.  

 

Required Education:

  • Bachelors-Accounting or equiv exp 
 

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (eg. Excel, Powerpoint). 
  • Good grasp of automation and data-visualization tools (eg. VBA, SQL, Power BI, RPA).
  • Familiar with finance business processes.
  • Prior experience with SAP system knowledge preferred.

 

  • Personal Skills - Stress Management 

Intermediate 

  • Personal Skills - Attention to Detail 

Intermediate 

  • Personal Skills - Self Motivated 

Intermediate 

  • Personal Skills - Analytical Skills 

Intermediate 

  • Personal Skills - Time/Priority Management 

Intermediate 

  • Personal Skills - Work both Independently and on a Team 

Intermediate 

   

Required Length & Type of Experience:

  • At least 3 years working experience in Accounting, IT with finance
  • Experience in a finance digital-transformation role within a Big Four consulting firm is a Plus.

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This Sr Accountant position at Avient was posted on Sep 1, 2026. Apply as soon as possible — early applications are often reviewed first.
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