Senior Accounting Specialist with German

To perform the day-to-day finance activities within the GFS finance team. Managing relationships with the served sites, while performing the daily financial and accounting business processes of the GFS with a focus on standardization whilst delivering excellent customer service.

In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:

Financial business partnering

• Ensure the financial integrity of the Financial Documents, performing all tasks as set out in the GFS
• Part of a team responsible for Month End closing to a strict timetable for Financials into HFM
• (Reporting system). Reporting scope includes P&L, Balance sheet, TWC metrics, Headcount, and other statistical requirements.
• Perform monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statement variance analysis.
• Provide financial reports to finance management (e.g. account analysis, balance sheet and income statement flux analysis, reconciliations, ad hoc analysis, etc.).

Balance Sheet

• Perform periodic financial close activities including journal entry preparation and account reconciliations including cash, prepaid expenses, fixed assets, and accrued expenses among others.
• Ownership of the balance sheet control reconciliations including investigation of reconciling items to clear in a timely manner.
• Regular financial & balance sheet reviews in conjunction with the Accounting Manager and Site management team.

P&L

• Perform and Analyze business reports for Bookings, Sales, and backlog.
• Perform monthly cost center reporting including variation analysis (SG&A and CGS).
• Maintain compliance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and internal CP&P.
• Build and manage dashboards and metrics to identify key trends, risks and opportunities.

Knowledge Management and training

• Contributes on the knowledge management within GFS and establishes standards and quality in the overall documentation efforts.

Continuous improvement

• Support development of streamlined processes through automation or other efficiency gaining ways.
• Works with Systems accounting team as needed to implement process design changes or system updates.

Who You Are:

You stay aligned with your goals and stay productive. You serve as a strategic partner to build, grow, and maintain profitable and long-lasting relationships with key accounts. You are capable to be transformative and able to articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods. You integrate quantitative and qualitative information to draw accurate conclusions.

For this Role, You Will Need:

• University or equivalent degree in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration and/or Professional Accountancy Qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA etc.).
• Fluent English & German - language skills: verbal, reading, and writing. Other European languages are an advantage.
• Minimum 4-5 years finance experience in a global environment
• Knowledge of Oracle, SAP or Syteline together with HFM preferred; Microsoft Excel, POWER BI and PowerPoint skills.

Preferred Qualifications that Set You Apart:

• Strong communication, interpersonal, and influencing skills in support of organizational change
• Flexible teammate with ability to work in cross-functional teams and across varying groups and interpersonal levels

Our Offer to You

We understand the importance of work-life balance and are dedicated to supporting our employees' personal and professional needs. From competitive benefits plans and comprehensive medical care to equitable opportunities for growth and development we strive to create a workplace that is supportive and rewarding.
Depending on location, our flexible work from home policy allows you to make the best of your time, by combining quiet home office days with collaborative experiences in the office so that you can personalize your work-life mix.
Moreover, our global volunteer employee resource groups will empower you to connect with peers that share the same interest, promote diversity and inclusion and positively contribute to communities around us.