We are lookng for a Head Accountant for one of our clients' international financial shared service centre _base_d in Barcelona.

As an Accountant you will be responsible you will be in charge of reconciliations, fixed asset accounting, inter-company accounting, and preparation of reports and statistics detailing financial results.

Main responsibilities:

- Manage the performance of financial accounting and reporting areas, including fixed assets, general ledger accounting activities to preparation of the trial balance, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and monthly financial reporting and related analysis.
- Support local finance director in the preparation of VAT returns, Intrastat and other local statutory financial information
- Review all journal entries created by direct reports for completeness and accuracy.
- Review all balance sheet reconciliations for accuracy and completeness.
- Review, analyse and reconcile all account balances related to the income statement and balance sheet.
- Preparation and review of daily, weekly, and monthly corporate report packages.
- Assist in the timely and accurate financial close and account reconciliation processes.
- Assist the development and preparation of timely well organized and complete financial reports.
- Creation, preparation, and review of a detailed internal financial reporting package.
- Coordinate and perform month-end closing procedures.
- Coordinate capital asset accounting and reporting
- Provide guidance for direct reports and lower level accountants.
- Cooperate with all audits (e.g. 401K, Bank, E&Y, Sales Tax, Internal)
- Maintain internal controls surrounding all financial processes.
- Execute accounting activities that meet or exceed the shared service centre key performance indicators (KPI’s) and support the continuous improvement culture.
- Minimize and/or eliminate operational and financial control risks to the business at all times.
- Identify, evaluate and resolve complex operational issues.

Requirements

•Qualifications
- Native level in German + high level of English
- 3 or 4-year Accounting or Finance Degree

•Experience
10+ years of progressive experience in a global finance function within a multi location and multinational corporation, with 3 + years experience of supervising staff:
- Period end close process
- General ledger reconciliations
- Month end/year end reporting
Experience leading an accounting team in a multinational corporation

•Skills
- Extensive knowledge of US GAAP, IFRS (preferred) and Sarbanes-Oxley.
- Extensive experience with closing monthly books and records and preparation of financial statements and reports
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.MS Excel to advanced level
- Experience with an integrated ERP system
- Excellent verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills with the ability to interact across multiple functions and cultures
- Proven ability to gain cooperation of others, providing technical information and gaining agreement to proposed accounting treatmentsor providing explanations of accounts/resolving issues
- Results orientated, consistently delivers on commitments, takes initiative, takes responsibility, has a sense of urgency, makes timely decisions.
Ability to organize and execute multiple tasks at once as defined or directed by management and adapt to changing, fast paced environment
- Relies on extensive experience and judgement to plan and accomplish goals and a wide degree of creativity and proactivity is expected.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and lead a team to deliver high performance
- Demonstrated ability to establish and build key relationships at all levels of the organization and to provide excellent customer service.

Offer
Competitive salary
Long term contract
International environment

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