Our Delta Operational team is looking for a Consultant Senior - Accountant to help and support one of our clients.
The Senior accountant will have the following responsibilities:
- Take ownership of selected legal entities, balance-sheet areas or accounting workstreams.
- Prepare and review journal entries, accruals, prepayments and account reconciliations.
- Ensure transactions are recorded accurately, completely and in the appropriate accounting period.
- Investigate unexpected movements and resolve accounting discrepancies.
- Prepare variance analyses and explanations of material balance movements.
- Support and improve monthly, quarterly and annual closing activities.
- Coordinate with Accounts Payable, Treasury, FP&A, Tax, Group Accounting and local accounting providers.
- Analyse and account for complex, unusual or previously unresolved transactions.
- Prepare accounting position papers or technical memoranda when required.
- Support intercompany accounting, reconciliations and mismatch resolution.
- Investigate cash, bank-fee, foreign-exchange and transaction-flow discrepancies.
- Review historical balances and identify unsupported, unreconciled, duplicated or incorrectly classified items.
- Reconcile and remediate accounting data in SAP.
- Establish reliable opening balances and clear audit trails.
- Correct recurring posting, mapping and master-data issues.
- Help reinforce SAP as the primary accounting source of truth.
- Reconcile differences between the client’s records and those maintained by local accounting providers.
- Prepare audit schedules, reconciliations, supporting evidence and accounting explanations.
- Respond directly and independently to external-auditor requests.
- Support statutory audits for European legal entities.
- Prepare or contribute to balance-sheet substantiation, going-concern assessments and other accounting papers.
- Maintain organised, complete and review-ready documentation.
- Document accounting procedures and month-end activities.
- Create or improve standard operating procedures, checklists and control evidence.
- Perform root-cause analysis of recurring accounting issues.
- Recommend and implement sustainable process improvements.
- Contribute to the development of the accounting control matrix.
- Use SAP and Excel for accounting operations, reconciliations and data analysis.
- Work effectively with large datasets and incomplete or imperfect source information.
- Identify accounting activities that can be standardised, simplified or automated.
- Use tools such as Power Query, SQL, automation platforms or AI where they provide a practical benefit.
- Document material automated processes so that they can be understood and maintained by the team.
- Reduce recurring errors, unnecessary manual work and operational dependencies.
The Consultant Senior - Accountant will also have the responsibility to participate to the Delta Accountant club, support and manage Delta initiatives around the Accountant topics.
As an operational consultant, the Consultant Senior - Accountant will act as Subject Matter Expert to support other colleagues in case of expertise needs.
Requirements
To be successful in this role, you should meet the following qualifications:
- Have at least 7 years of relevant financial accounting experience.
- Demonstrate strong hands-on experience with month-end closing.
- Demonstrate strong expertise in SAP S/4HANA (FI required; MM is a plus)
- Have experience independently managing legal entities, material balance-sheet areas or accounting workstreams.
- Demonstrate strong knowledge of accrual accounting, cut-off, reconciliations, intercompany accounting and financial controls.
- Have experience investigating and resolving complex or historical accounting issues.
- Have experience supporting statutory, group or external audits.
- Demonstrate advanced Excel skills.
- Operate effectively in multi-entity, multi-currency and complex environments.
- Have experience managing local accounting and tax service providers.
- Have knowledge of IFRS and European local statutory accounting frameworks.
- Prepare technical accounting papers and audit documentation.
- Work effectively with large datasets and incomplete information.
- Be able to work independently in a fast-moving and changing environment.
- Collaborate effectively with stakeholders located across Europe.
- Experience in FinTech, payments, banking, financial services or another regulated industry is considered an advantage.
- Experience in accounting remediation following an ERP implementation is considered an advantage.
- A recognised accounting qualification such as ACCA, ACA, CPA, CIMA or an equivalent qualification is considered an advantage.
- License or Master qualification in accounting, finance or equivalent
- English speaking are mandatory, additional language is considered as an advantage
Benefits
- Permanent contract
- Dynamic and innovation environment
- Trainings
- Competitive salary package
Skills Required
- At least 5 years of experience in accounting
- Strong expertise in SAP S/4HANA (FI required)
- Experience with SAP MM
- Experience operating in multi-entity and complex environments
- Manage AP invoices, banking operations, month/quarter/year closings, reconciliations, fixed assets, depreciation, revaluations
- Experience addressing SAP transition challenges (mass postings, data quality, configuration gaps)
- Experience with T&E and expense management tools such as Navan and Spendesk
- Ability to use or quickly develop proficiency with Pivot tables/Excel Pivot Tables
- Accounting qualification (Licensed or Master's degree in accounting, finance, or equivalent)
- Fluent English (additional languages advantageous)
What We Do
We are an independent consultancy firm. We help Asset Managers, Wealth Managers, and Securities/Fund servicers to empower their digital journey







