Senior Accountant

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Senior Accountant

Department: Finance Office

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Manchester

Reporting To: Kathy Merckx

Description

The Senior Accountant is part of our Global corporate Finance & Legal team, which is the beating heart of all financial management and operations at Human8. In this role you will be taking ownership for the AZ accounting of our 2 BE legal entities and will be part of a team of 4 Accountants supported by a shared service center in Timisoara.

Responsibilities

• Responsible of month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closings and produce error-free accounting reports.
• Understand the drivers of your fiscal results & explain your management accounts on a monthly basis to the EMEA Head of Accounting & CFO.
• Advise and collaborate closely with the Accounting Administrator colleagues in SSC who manage administrative processing of AR & AP invoices and bank statements.
• Review accuracy of accounts payable and receivable ledgers, payments in transit to guarantee a correct presentation of our ledgers.
• Truly understand the nature of cost in your entities & spot errors on analytical accounting. Suggest ways to avoid analytical accounting mistakes.
• Understand cash needs of the legal entities in different currencies & drive improvement of net working capital.
• Guarantee sufficient internal controls on payments, review & upload payment runs in bank tools (prepared by the SSC).
• The monthly closing activities include amongst others:
  • Understand completeness & accuracy of posted cost by SSC (GL, CC)
  • Payroll accounting, accrualsand reconciliations
  • Manage fixed assets and depreciations
  • Deferred and accrued costs
  • Impairment testing of FFA
  • Review credit card postings & processes
  • Revaluation of FX transactions
  • Interest calculations
  • Incentive postings
  • Transfer pricing transactions
  • ICO transactions
• Accountable for VAT declarations & related reports.
• Accountable for WHT declarations & other fiscal required reporting.
• Review and recommend modifications to accounting systems and procedures in collaboration with your colleagues.
• Preparation of the statutory annual accounts.
• Responsible for the tax returns together with our external advisor and take the lead in the tax audits (VAT , Corporate tax & social taxes).
• Coordinate & supply all information for external audits to ensure compliance.
• Advice your stakeholders within the organization upon requests.

Qualifications

• Degree in finance and accounting, or a similar relevant field.
• Preferably at least 5-7 years of experience in a corporate accounting role.
• Proficient in both Dutch and English.