Senior Financial Reporting Accountant / Controller

Imagine a future where you ensure high-quality financial reporting by leveraging business knowledge and process optimisation

Join us in this role where you’ll be responsible for a broad set of financial reporting, accounting, and planning processes concerning the Group’s legal entities, incl. financial statements preparation, auditing and budgeting process, month-end closing, reconciliations, as well as performing internal controls. You’ll predominantly support our German region and play a role in process optimisation, aided by your significant experience in the field.

Welcome to Financial Accounting & Controlling
You’ll be part of the Financial Accounting team where you, together with your colleagues, will be responsible for delivering standardised and timely accounting and reporting products within FAC. As a team, we create a workplace culture centred around teamwork and development through close collaboration with our colleagues and stakeholders within and outside of the FAC department.

You’ll play an important role in:

• preparing financial statements, engaging with our external auditors, and providing high-quality audit documentation
• handling month-end closing activities with respect to tight period end close deadlines, incl. intercompany reconciliations, preparing appropriate financial journals, etc.
• reporting on a number of legal entities for group reporting purposes (IFRS) and maintaining a high-quality control environment and periodical account reconciliations
• providing local financial reporting for joint venture partners
• preparing joint venture budgets in collaboration with asset management and business controlling teams.

To succeed in the role, you:

• have a bachelor’s or master’s degree or equivalent experience in accounting, controlling, or similar (ACA-qualified)
• have strong analytical skills proven by extensive experience in financial reporting or management reporting/controlling, such as working in a public accounting firm or a controlling department in an international company
• are a highly competent user of the Microsoft Office suite, incl. Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint, and have and experience with financial accounting and reporting software, preferably SAP or Hyperion
• take an analytical and logical approach to issues and have the ability to handle the information you receive with a critical eye
• are result-oriented, set visible and relevant goals for your tasks, and are a problem-solver with a positive can-do attitude
• are fluent in both spoken and written English and preferably have a good understanding of German.

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

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If you need to request any adjustments or accommodations to working practices, working patterns, or the assessment or interview process we're happy to discuss alternative arrangements.

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country.