Job Description
This role is essential for supporting consistency and compliance for IFRS and statutory accounting and tax compliance. The Junior General Accountant will focus on executing daily accounting tasks and assisting with monthly and annual closing processes of EUROAPI Germany.
Key responsibilities for the Role:
Main duties:
Daily transactions: Processing of all daily transactions in IFRS accounting, such as bank accounting, assets commissioning or scrapping, Manual Journal Entries posting etc.
Monthly and annual transactions: Assisting in the main transactions in statutory accounting, tax compliance and tax reporting, including quarterly and yearly closing entries relevant to local accounts.
Closing documentation: Assisting in the preparation of the closing documentation and performing the relevant reconciliations (e.g. reconciliation of trade payable and trade receivable accounts, bank reconciliations).
Financial statements: Assisting in the preparation of yearly statutory financial statements and corporate tax returns.
Tax compliance: Participating in the submission of tax returns and payments, as well as VAT declarations.
Deferred taxes: Participating in the monitoring of deferred taxes calculations and temporary differences.
Reporting Packages: Participating in the processing of the French reporting packages in the Consolidation tool (BFC) on monthly basis.
Business partnering: Collaborating with central and local teams in managing the monthly and yearly closing processes and Participating in business meetings and providing support in accounting and tax topics.
Continuous Improvement: Contributing to the continuous improvement of General ledger Accounting process.
Quality checks: Ensuring quality checks and review of the financial data in his/her scope.
Policies and procedures processes:
Participating in defining the change in policies and procedures of the legal entity.
Contributing to Internal Controls definition for processes in scope and supporting external audit processes.
Interfaces:
Internal:
Head of Group General Accounting
CFO
Tax department
Corporate Finance: any other finance department
Local HR
Other: Legal, Commercial, Industrial and Development departments, etc.
External:
Auditors, IT Advisors, Payroll BPO, etc.
Statutory auditors, tax authorities
Expected Skills
Completed commercial university degree, e.g. in business administration (BWL) with a focus on accounting/ financial reporting/financial management or a comparable qualification as a tax consultant, tax specialist or accountant; alternatively completed training as an accountant or tax clerk with corresponding experience
2-5 years of experience in Accounting and Tax compliance (including internships)
Organizational skills such as the ability to coordinate and consolidate input from multiple stakeholders
Flexible team player, proactive
Building partnership and trust over time with key stakeholders
Basic skills to work with Excel, Power BI
Basic knowledge of accounting and ERP software SAP (FICO, AA, …), tax compliance & reporting tools
Written and verbal communication skills
Fluent in German and Professional English