GL Accountant Senior (M/F) - Porto - JO-2009-167407

Detalhes da oferta

• The accountant will be the key support contact for the centre and local in term of supporting the general ledger activities
• The accountant will be responsible for the maintenance of the accounts, P&L and balance sheet by country assigned 
• The accountant will work closely with the GL Team Leader to drive the efficiency of the finance activities.
• The accountant will be involved in the transition of accounting activities from the country into shared services centre reporting indirectly to an European Project Manager.

• Responsible for monthly general ledger close of the European entities in scope;
• Identifies and implements innovative processes to enhance the timeliness and accuracy of the monthly general ledger closing process;
• Responsible to record, monitor and report general accounting activity for assigned entities;
• Perform monthly closing of Accounts Payable and Receivable areas;
• Prepare journal and load into Oracle;
• Checking for completeness of the posting;
• Analyse the accounts movements and propose period end adjustment entries;
• Reconciliation of  accounts on monthly basis;
• Upload accounting figures into HFM consolidation tool;
• Owner to open and close the period in Oracle;
• Generate standard set of report, e.g. financial statement;
• Generate additional requested reports;
• Prepare reports for management;
• Support the country local finance with Audit reports required;
• Support tax filing for the country assigned;
• Support the other team members with financial transitions into centre;
• Assist in ad hoc reports and projects as required by Head of Reginal Finance Shared Services Centre or European Project managers;

• Academic accounting degree (or similar) or professional qualification;
• 5-10 years of working experience in this area;
• Minimum of 4 years working in Shared services Environment (not mandatory)
• Experiencie in working at one of the Big Four;
• Participation in transition of finance activities into a shared services environment will be an advantage;
• Certified Accountant (registered in OTOC) will be an advantage;
• Oracle Finance system experience strongly desired;
• MS Office (Excel, Power Point, Visio and Word);
• Self-starter with high analytical skills;
• Able to work independently;
• Problem solver;
• Excellent interpersonal skills and meticulous;
• Able to work independently and manage multiple priorities;
• Ability to work and deliver results within agreed timeline.
• Attention-to-details, and diligent;
• Able to deliver presentations around significant numbers with the ability to explain complex plans in verbal, numerical, and descriptive formats to all levels of the organisation;
• The ability to drive innovation at all levels that creates an environment of idea generation to improve the operation;
• A good understanding of process improvement that can improve customer experience, service quality and efficiency;
• Good communication skills - fluent in spoken & written English;
• Any other language will be an advantage.