Job Description

This financial accounting role, working closely with the Senior Integration Finance Manager, Senior Completion Accountant, external completion accountants, and integration and M&A teams in each territory. Main tasks will be providing reports and other information to the completion accountants in-country, checking the completion accounts to ensure compliance with our policy and financial reporting standards, and creating and posting completion accounts and initial acquisition journals, whilst adhering to timetable and best practice at all time.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Accountant with a professional accounting qualification (ACCA or similar)
• At least 2 years’ experience in an accounting role, ideally with knowledge of accounts preparation and audit
• Strong technical understanding of balance sheet and financial statements
• Excellent attention to detail, and able to deliver right-first-time results quickly, while maintaining a robust audit trail for all work
• Thrives in a fast-paced constantly changing environment – flexibility is key
• Able to demonstrate strong communication and influencing skills with a range of internal and external stakeholders
• Deadline focused, and willing to put in the effort required to ensure they always meet them
• Robust understanding of small companies and how they work
• Meticulous organizational skills
• Experience of Open Accounts would be an advantage
• Experience in acquisitions accounting
• Evidence of regular CPD, particularly keeping up to date with financial reporting standards
• Relevant language skills (including but not limited to Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian)