Accountant

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Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DEU
In-Office
Senior level
Logistics
The Role
The Accountant oversees general ledgers for five European entities and maintains income statement and balance sheet integrity. Responsibilities include accounts payable and receivable, invoice processing, payments, asset administration, VAT calculations and filings, journal entries, month-end and year-end close, reconciliations, P&L analysis, bad debt allowance, reporting, credit checks, and audit support. This is an onsite role in Düsseldorf requiring five years of general accounting experience and strong Excel skills.
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Crane Worldwide Logistics is a leader in supply chain solutions with over 130 locations across 30 countries providing individual services that address our client's logistics challenges.

The Accountant will be responsible for oversite of the General Ledgers of five entities (Germany, Austria Belgium the Netherlands and Poland) . Maintains integrity of income statements as well as the balance sheet ledgers.

This is an onsite role based in Dusseldorf.

Essential Job Functions:

Accounts Payable:

  • Responsible for timely and accurate accounts payable processing.
  • Managing incoming Invoice mailboxes (sorting and distribute Transport invoices to India)
  • Contact stations and ask for approval of invoices.
  • Follow-up and solve issues.
  • Booking overhead invoices
  • Accounts receivable (compute credit notes)
  • Asset administration (activation, disposals and depreciation)
  • Processes invoices by entering them into accounting system and communicates with vendors and branches on issues.
  • Filing of processed invoices, checks and PO's
  • Makes copies of check runs and matching them to the appropriate invoice
  • Perform manual and batch payments
  • Perform credit check for new customers
  • VAT-calculation and filing (monthly/quarterly)

General ledger activities:

  • Create manual and/or batch payments
  • P&L analysis
  • Prepare and review monthly journal entries including supporting documentation
  • Month-end and Year-end activities.
  • Research and resolve accounting issues
  • Perform monthly incentive computation
  • Compute VAT declaration (monthly/quarterly).
  • Monthly reporting activities in OneStream.
  • Compute Bad debt allowance
  • Perform balance sheet reconciliations

Ad hoc activities

  • Perform credit checks for new customers.
  • Assist with annual audits
  • IDEV reporting
  • CBS reporting

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Requirements:

  • Talking, hearing and using hands to operate computer equipment
  • Vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

Experience Required:

  • 5 years experience general Accounting Experience. 
  • Strong Excel skills are required.

Disclaimer:
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

Recruitment Agency Policy

At Crane Worldwide Logistics we manage all hiring directly and do not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies or search firms. Agencies must not contact our employees or managers directly with candidate details.

Where recruitment support is required, we will engage trusted partners through a formal written agreement. We will not be liable for be liable for any associated placement fees for any CVs received without such an agreement.

We appreciate your cooperation in respecting this policy.


Skills Required

  • Five years of general accounting experience
  • Strong Microsoft Excel skills
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HQ: Houston, TX
1,909 Employees
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

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