Financial Accountant
Full Time
Job Description
- Review Financial Statements of our Entities and monitoring of local finance to ensure deadlines are met
- Review Balance Sheet reconciliations and follow up to local finance departments with action points
- Assist local finance where required with statutory audit/tax inspection requirements and requests
- Reviewing reconciliations between statutory P/L and Tax P/L reporting and filings
- Review with European Finance Manager accounting policies and assist with improvements and communication processes to ensure accounting in all entities is consistent
- First level review and checking of tax and VAT filings and responsible to obtain approvals from European Finance Director and International Tax Team
- Focus on revenue recognition policy and auditing the local subsidiaries to ensure compliance
- Manage ‘In control’ platform ensuring that all financial statements/tax filings and legal entity documents are uploaded and correct
- Review and checking of marketing fee contract calculations and approvals
- Maintaining local agreements for marketing fee/IG loans and allocated expense recharges
- Review monthly cash flow from entities and make recommendations for inter group payments
- First level review of all approval requests to European Finance Director (Customer credit requests/purchase invoices/Customer RMA/Sales arrangements etc.)
- First level review of commission plan calculations across region and obtaining appropriate approvals
- Assist in audit and reporting of company assets tracking/checking including but not limited to Fixed Assets and Inventory
- Review contracts and engagements providing feedback and obtaining approval from Finance Director
- Close liaison with local Senior Accountants to resolve issues.
- Reviewing and advising on cost Center accounting. Including managing new cost center application process
- Reviewing and reporting AR Provision and Inventory Provision
- Ad hoc finance projects
- Ad hoc duties to support Finance Manager
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Qualified/Newly Qualified Accountant with strong previous experience in an accounting role (ACCA/ACA)
- Experience in practice environment with exposure to preparation and audit of financial statements
- Highly numeric/strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Advanced level spreadsheet skills and PC literacy.
- Strong written reporting skills.
- Confident communication skills.
- Strong commercial acumen.
- Drive to continually improve processes and seek new challenges.
- Ability to work under pressure, working accurately with attention to detail, and meeting deadlines.
- Willingness to travel.
- Ability to be flexible.
- Preferably knowledge and professional experience of SAP
Reference no: 91255