Senior General Accountant

Responsible for oversight and management of accounting and tax matters of a legal entity

Responsible for developing and maintaining accounting principles, practices, and procedures to ensure accurate and timely financial statements.

Reporting lines and interactions:

Operationally reports to: Regional Financial Controller / Director Finance.

Key interactions internally and externally:

Project team / Financial controller / Consolidation department / Tax department / Partner /Auditors / Tax administration

Main accountabilities:

- Supervise transactional activities (AP, AR, BA) mainly run from our GBS center in India

- Ensure an accurate and timely quarterly / yearly closing as applicable

- Defines and communicates period-end closing schedule to shared services accounting team

- Manage Intercompany reconciliation

- Quarterly accruals with input from Project Financial Controllers for the Revenue Recognition, Gross margin /revaluation and Forex analysis. 

- Issue the accounting reporting (trial balance and related AP / AR / Banking appendices, split by currencies...)

- Prepare Financial statements

- HFM reporting and Review meeting to Consolidation department

- Tax reporting to Tax group department

- Perform controls (banking, transit accounts, ...)

- Tax calculation & filing CIT / VAT and other local taxes

- Perform Projects’ Cost accounting reconciliation for Project Financial Controllers review

- Supervises local payments including WPS payroll payment for the entity

- Coordinate and support the ICV Manager of the entity to issue ICV Certificate as required by Authorities

- Assist with any site administration activities in coordination with Site Administration Manager.

- Prepare Internal Control documentation and coordinate with regional Internal Control teams to ensure compliance to group standards.

- Support ERP implementation and propose improvements in relation to his/her area

- Contact point in the accounting reporting for partners and external auditors

- Any FP&A related activity required for the entity / project

Profile / Role Requirements:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in accounting

Minimum 8 years of experience in finance and accounting

Local and IFRS GAAP

Be fluent in English

IT skills: ERP Oracle, Pack office, local payroll and treasury software, HFM

Effective verbal and written communication to all levels of management at the business unit and corporate

Must work collaboratively with business process owners to achieve objectives and observe strict confidentiality.

Proactive and Able to work in a team environment as well as independently.