The Europe Senior Accountant will be involved and responsible for several finance processes across the region including consolidation of monthly management accounts, reporting, cashflow, budgeting and forecasting processes. The ideal candidate is a qualified accountant with several year experience in management accounting. They will be a strong team player with a understanding of accounting principles and processes and strong MS Excel knowledge. – French and English language requirement is a MUST.
Responsibilities
- Monthly reporting and forecasting of assigned company in line with region/group deadlines and year end reporting.
- Preparation of consolidated monthly management accounts with supporting financial analysis and commentary
- Monthly reconciliation of balance sheet accounts of assigned entity
- Supporting integration of new entities, preparing templates, process notes, training materials, assisting with required system set up in place e.g. new entity or cost centre, gathering information on user access rights required, updating consolidated template to include the new information.
- Gathering and consolidating financial information on sector level and details on property leases from whole Europe, including new acquisitions.
- Supporting the yearly consolidated Europe budget process and monthly consolidated Europe forecasting process
- Preparation of the weekly/monthly cashflow forecast to ensure an accurate representation of future cashflows and balances.
- Working on ad-hoc projects including new systems implementations, business acquisitions, cross border projects etc.
- Work across Europe Finance team to support whole team as necessary.
- SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
Key Stakeholders
- RFD, RMD, RFC, Country MDs and Cost centre leads
- Europe Finance
- Group Finance