Chief Accountant - French Gaap

The Chief Accountant role supports the Controlling team for financial accounting and reporting, responsible for the financial integrity of the legal entities in France. The role work with regional shared service teams and manage the operational accounting and reporting processes and ensures timely and accurate processing of operational accounting, period close and group and local statutory reporting.

Client Details

Our Client is a global manufacturing company with advanced engineering solution. Their situation on the market is very stable for many years, hiring more than 10 thousand employees and being listed on the London Stock Exchange. Currently they make a great investment in Cracow, where they centralise processes and create new positions to add more competence in their functional areas.

Description

1. Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting, including local statutory reporting
2. Ensure period end processes are executed in a timely and accurate manner
3. Review outputs from the shared services teams and ensures completeness and accuracy
4. Conduct balance sheet reviews where prepared by shared services and ensures completeness and
accuracy
5. Coordinate monthly reconciliations
6. Supports Regional/ Entity controllers with action plans for open balance sheet items
7. Provides input to judgement journals required during the period end process
8. Provides oversight on billing and customer invoicing activities performed by shared services
9. Supports with clarification of escalated supplier queries, where it cannot be resolved by shared services
10. Acts as a point of interface between shared services and the relevant business area/ entity to manage
escalations and clarifications relating to financial transactions
11. Provide ad hoc financial support to the business
12. Responsible for ensuring that processes comply with the Control Framework and Accounting
Standards
13. Develop continuous improvement initiatives

Profile

* Qualified accountant desirable with relevant accounting experience
* Very good knowledge of French accounting practices - French Gaap
* Preference for manufacturing or similar industry with multi-revenue stream operations
* Ability to work to tight time scales, manage multiple task whilst maintain a high level of accuracy
* Fluent in French - at B2 level
* Accounting and Finance processes
* Accounting manuals / policies & procedures
* Legal & regulatory requirements
* Finance controls and risk identification & assessment
* Commercial application of accounting standards
* Supporting decisions and influencing business counterparts

Job Offer

• Fully remote position
• Flexible working hours
• Attractive compensation
• Lunch Card
• Private Health Care
• Multisport card
• My benefits platform