ACCOUNTING COORDINATOR

Our Finance & Administration Business Line is looking for an Accounting Coordinator who will have the following responsibilities.
• Manage a team of accountants allocated to a scope of Countries being responsible for the GL; • Be responsible to submit companies’ Financial statements on HFM, on a monthly basis, assuring the IFRS harmonization for the group Accounts; • Manages specific technical operations.
liquidation or merge of company, tax optimization, knowledge of equity’s operation, open Permanent Establishments or subsidiaries; • Book and control the Inter-companies flows checking on a monthly basis; • Assure the Monthly payroll entries are done and on a timely and quality manner; • Be responsible for Tax Computation and Returns.
VAT, Corporate Tax, Income Tax, WHT, Local Tax (CVAE, Paye, CIS,CET) are done and loaded on a proper manner following local requisites; • Be a key person to laid down all tax local requirements and updates; • Preparation of annual accounts for all the legal entities of the country in both local and group GAAP; • Be responsible for the Local COA for All scope of Countries and assure that works with Group COA; • Booking of the closing entries (Journal entries and IFRS harmonization’s) and set-up the closing file for the auditors; • Be responsible for the initial consolidation process and assure the entries are done; • Liaise with the AP´s department by a smooth incorporation of different geographies/companies of the group on the system; • In charge of the accounting system improvements working side by side with similar departments of other Regions; • Be responsible for the initial tax assessment to enter in new Countries, working side by side with Tax consultant; • Be responsible for the Transfer Prices dossier; • Manage IFRS 16 using a proper company system feeding it on a regular basis; • Be a key person for internal processes improvements likely Purchase, Assets, Inventories, FX and so on; • Interface with the countries teams that belongs to the Region as is Portugal, Italy, Spain, UK and others, assessing internal controls, including risk assessments and reviews of risk areas.; • Assure that the corporate secretary is updated as the minutes of the Annual General Assembly for the following decisions.
approval of the yearly financial statements, change of the auditors and others.
QUALIFICATIONS.
The ideal candidate will have/ be.
• Master’s degree in accounting; • At least 5 years of experience as Accounting/ Consolidation Responsible; • Strong knowledge of VAT operations and full Tax Management; • Accounting Software.
configuration, booking and access right for security purpose; • Good knowledge of HFM or other consolidation tool; • Strong Knowledge of IFRS, specifically Asset, FX, Investments and shares, Financing; • Good Knowledge on Consolidation process; • Experience on more than one Country accounting policies; • IT and Robots Mindset; • English proficiency (mandatory).
Key Skills.
• Sense of responsibility; • Autonomous; • Rigorous; • Team player and team leader; • Priority management; • Respect of deadline; • Accustomed to multi-company environment.