
Senior Accounting Specialist, Trade Revenue
Dow
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Houston • Missouri • Texas • United States
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About the role
- Acts as a mentor and subject‑matter resource for team members, providing guidance, knowledge sharing, and coaching
- Provide technical expertise for the recording, monitoring, reporting, and communication of trade customer revenue, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with customer contracts and applicable accounting standards and best practices
- Support trade revenue accrual and customer invoicing processes to ensure timely and accurate revenue recognition
- Monitor and analyze the timeliness of customer payments and partner with stakeholders to identify and resolve issues impacting cash collection
- Perform margin, variance, and trend analysis related to trade revenue and communicate insights to business management
- Support the annual budget process and monthly and quarterly forecasting and estimate activities
- Lead and execute the monthly reconciliation process for trade revenue reporting, ensuring issues are identified, investigated, and resolved
Requirements
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or relevant military experience at or above a U.S. E5 or Canadian Petty Officer 2nd Class or Sergeant ranking
- A minimum of 6 years of relevant working experience.
- The ability to work legally in the United States. No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position.
- Strong understanding of revenue recognition principles, internal controls, cost flows for site services and revenue for trade customers of site services, and financial reporting requirements.
- Proven ability to influence without authority and collaborate effectively across organizational boundaries.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into actionable business insights.
- Ability to explain complex accounting concepts clearly to a range of stakeholders.
- Ability to strengthen accuracy, timeliness, and consistency within established accounting processes.
- Strong understanding of cost flows, activity-based charges, and revenue recognition for site services and trade customers, ensuring accurate accounting and reporting.
Benefits
- We invest in you.
- Vibrant network of Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) designed to foster inclusion and belonging.
- Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets.
- Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental, financial, and social well-being.
- Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning, and educational resources.
- Employee stock purchase programs (availability varies depending on location).
- Student Debt Retirement Savings Match Program (U.S. only).
- Robust medical and life insurance packages that offer a variety of coverage options.
- Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.
- Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.
- Competitive yearly vacation allowance.
- Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).
- Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.
- Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation.
- Wellbeing Portal for all Dow employees.
- On-site fitness facilities to help stay healthy and active (availability varies depending on location).
- Employee discounts for online shopping, cinema tickets, gym memberships and more.
- Relocation assistance is not available with this position.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
revenue recognition principlesfinancial reportingmargin analysisvariance analysistrend analysisbudgetingforecastingaccounting standardsinternal controlscost flows
Soft Skills
mentoringcoachinginfluencing without authoritycollaborationanalytical skillscommunicationproblem-solvingattention to detailstakeholder engagementdata translation