Senior Accounting Specialist

• To perform the day-to-day finance activities within the finance team.
• Provide timely and professional services that support different sites, ensuring that the monthly US GAAP financials for the countries are prepared accurately and on time.
• Drive process improvements and provide training and development to others.

• Ensure financial integrity of the Financial Statements
• Part of a team responsible for Month End closing to a strict timetable for Financials into HFM (Reporting system). Reporting scope includes P&L, Balance sheet, TWC metrics, Headcount and other statistical requirements.
• Perform monthly, quarterly and annual financial statement variance analysis.
• Provide financial reports to finance management (e.g. account analysis, balance sheet and income statement flux analysis, reconciliations, ad hoc analysis, etc.).
• Balance Sheet
• Perform periodic financial close activities including journal entry preparation and account reconciliations including cash, prepaid expenses, fixed assets, and accrued expenses among others.
• Ownership of the balance sheet control reconciliations including investigation of reconciling items to clear in a timely manner.
• Manage, review and execute the end-to-end cash disbursements process.
• P&L
• Perform and Analyze business reports for Bookings, Sales and backlog.
• Preparation of daily and period flash reports.
• Monthly reconciliations
• Product group, KOB and End destination Reporting.
• Deliver timely, comprehensive and quality management reporting including metrics.
• Maintain compliance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and internal CP&P.
• Researches and investigates accounting issues as required.
• Recommends and implements solutions.
• Part of a team responsible of Business Intelligence and Analytics:
• Create reports and predictive financial models to enable effective decision making.
• Build and manage dashboards and metrics to identify key trends, risks and opportunities.
• With thorough data analysis, provide insightful and actionable metrics and recommendations on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
• Engagement with corporate/internal and external auditors for all local and Europe wide engagements.
• Provide training within the team.
• Contributes on the knowledge management within the group and establishes standards and quality in the overall documentation efforts.
• Establishes a culture of learning and continues development and collaborates with operational teams.
• Contributes that training materials are defined, e-learning trainings are developed, an onboarding program is established and maintained.
• Support development of streamlined processes through automation or other efficiency gaining ways.
• Analyze Key Performance Indicators data, identify adverse trends and communicate these succinctly to management

• University or equivalent degree in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration and/or Professional Accountancy Qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA etc.).

• Fluent English language skills; verbal, reading and writing. Other European languages are an advantage.

• Minimum 5 years work experience for a large multi-national organization.

• Experience working in a matrix structure would be of an advantage.

• Strong communication, interpersonal, and influencing skills in support of organizational change

• Knowledge of Oracle, SAP or Syteline together with HFM preferred.

• Advanced Microsoft Excel, POWER BI and PowerPoint skills.

• Flexible team player with ability to work in cross-functional teams and across varying groups and organizational levels

• Ability to work independently in a team environment, take ownership of the resolution of problems,

• High level of curiosity, mindset of continuous improvement.

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