Accounting Expert

Job Description

Family Description
Finance (FI) comprises all finance and control activities, external and internal reporting, and capital allocation processes. Provides services in the area of financial planning, accounting, controlling, reporting, performance management, tax, investor relations, treasury, and mergers and acquisitions.

Subfamily Description
Local Accounting (LAC) contains the local accounting activities in a given country and ensures compliance with statutory financial reporting requirements and regulations.

Responsibilities
Regional Accounting is responsible for the efficiency, effectiveness and quality of services related local compliance. Main responsibility is to support tax & statutory compliance activities with high quality according to local regulations:

1. Accounting functions and statutory audits
2. Governance for regional accounting standards and requirements, indirect taxes and direct taxes.
3. Ensure technical quality and support of accounting function.
4. Business support regarding accounting
5. Ad hoc requests on case-by-case basis

DETAILS

• Processing of accounting activities and other related tasks for countries in the Region
• Compliance of tax processes (improvement and development)
• Support of statutory and tax audits
• Coordinate Statutory posting and support with statutory financials
• Partner for questions and issues arising from projects or daily business concerning accounting
• Identify, evaluate, report and manage risks
• Continuously monitors performance measures, proposing and implementing process improvement to increase process consistency, quality, efficiency, and effectiveness. Ensures visibility of the service organization's performance.
• Support for FAM Internal Controls, support other controls according to control catalogue.
• Support compliance of indirect taxation, WHT and corporate income tax processes for the Countries; interface to the local tax authorities; Review and support tax returns and support tax audits
• Support Manual payments and clearing processes
• Support Treasury tasks related to cashflow planning to engagement with bank, SOX controls and funding of bank accounts

Qualifications

• Between 1 - 3 years of experience in Finance and Accounting in a company or an audit company
• Experience with African countries accounting
• Good SAP and sound MS Excel skills.

KEY COMPETENCES

• Self-driven
• Able to work under pressure
• English fluent
• Driven for Results
• Interpersonal Savvy
• Perspective
• Motivating Others
• Business Acumen
• Analytical
• Processual mindset
• Hands on mentality
• Good team working skills
• Future ready skills - Finance digitalization
• Methodological and problem-solving competencies.
• Business competence (financial, technical, internal controlling) and intercultural competence