Consultant Senior - Accountant (m/f)

Description des tâches

The Senior accountant will have the following responsibilities

• -Take ownership of selected legal entities, balance-sheet areas or accounting workstreams.
• -Prepare and review journal entries, accruals, prepayments and account reconciliations.
• -Ensure transactions are recorded accurately, completely and in the appropriate accounting period.
• -Investigate unexpected movements and resolve accounting discrepancies.
• -Prepare variance analyses and explanations of material balance movements.
• -Support and improve monthly, quarterly and annual closing activities.
• -Coordinate with Accounts Payable, Treasury, FP&A, Tax, Group Accounting and local accounting providers.
• -Analyse and account for complex, unusual or previously unresolved transactions.
• -Prepare accounting position papers or technical memoranda when required.
• -Support intercompany accounting, reconciliations and mismatch resolution.
• -Investigate cash, bank-fee, foreign-exchange and transaction-flow discrepancies.
• -Review historical balances and identify unsupported, unreconciled, duplicated or incorrectly classified items.
• -Reconcile and remediate accounting data in SAP.
• -Establish reliable opening balances and clear audit trails.
• -Correct recurring posting, mapping and master-data issues.
• -Help reinforce SAP as the primary accounting source of truth.
• -Reconcile differences between the client's records and those maintained by local accounting providers.
• -Prepare audit schedules, reconciliations, supporting evidence and accounting explanations.
• -Respond directly and independently to external-auditor requests.
• -Support statutory audits for European legal entities.
• -Prepare or contribute to balance-sheet substantiation, going-concern assessments and other accounting papers.
• -Maintain organised, complete and review-ready documentation.
• -Document accounting procedures and month-end activities.
• -Create or improve standard operating procedures, checklists and control evidence.
• -Perform root-cause analysis of recurring accounting issues.
• -Recommend and implement sustainable process improvements.
• -Contribute to the development of the accounting control matrix.
• -Use SAP and Excel for accounting operations, reconciliations and data analysis.
• -Work effectively with large datasets and incomplete or imperfect source information.
• -Identify accounting activities that can be standardised, simplified or automated.
• -Use tools such as Power Query, SQL, automation platforms or AI where they provide a practical benefit.
• -Document material automated processes so that they can be understood and maintained by the team.
• -Reduce recurring errors, unnecessary manual work and operational dependencies.

Contraintes

Extrait de casier judiciaire exigé

Études

Niveau d'étude demandé egal Master (Bac+5)

Métier / domaine de formation

• Have at least 7 years of relevant financial accounting experience.
• Demonstrate strong hands-on experience with month-end closing.
• Demonstrate strong expertise in SAP S/4HANA (FI required; MM is a plus)
• Have experience independently managing legal entities, material balance-sheet areas or accounting workstreams.
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of accrual accounting, cut-off, reconciliations, intercompany accounting and financial controls.
• Have experience investigating and resolving complex or historical accounting issues.
• Have experience supporting statutory, group or external audits.
• Demonstrate advanced Excel skills.
• Operate effectively in multi-entity, multi-currency and complex environments.
• Have experience managing local accounting and tax service providers.
• Have knowledge of IFRS and European local statutory accounting frameworks.
• Prepare technical accounting papers and audit documentation.
• Work effectively with large datasets and incomplete information.

Autres compétences

• Be able to work independently in a fast-moving and changing environment.
• Collaborate effectively with stakeholders located across Europe.
• Experience in FinTech, payments, banking, financial services or another regulated industry is considered an advantage.
• Experience in accounting remediation following an ERP implementation is considered an advantage.
• A recognised accounting qualification such as ACCA, ACA, CPA, CIMA or an equivalent qualification is considered an advantage.
• License or Master qualification in accounting, finance or equivalent
• English speaking are mandatory, additional language is considered as an advantage