SSC Senior GL Accountant

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In Our Finance Shared Service Centre in Azelis Croatia, As a Great Opportunity To Enter The World Of Finance, We Are Hiring One Executor To The Workplace.

Senior GL Accountant

To support the Azelis’ growth strategy we have a unique opportunity for a dynamic GL Accountant within our Shared Service Centre in Zagreb. We are looking for a hands-on team player, a strong communicator who loves to set up and continuously optimize working processes and procedures while working in a highly international environment.

Main Accountabilities

As Senior GL Accountant you will work from the Zagreb office and take on the senior role within the GL department reporting to the Group Reporting Manager. In this role you will provide support to the Finance Shared Service team and be responsible for the accounting from A to Y of more than 30 legal entities within the EMEA Region.
This is a hands-on role in which you will perform the following accountabilities:

• Review journal entries on a timely basis and in accordance with our accounting guidelines

• Record and review the necessary provisions and accruals

• Review FX revaluations for vendors, customers, banks and general ledger account entries

• Review FA depreciation

• Review bank reconciliations for our European subsidiaries

• Review vendor/customer balance reconciliations

• Review intercompany transactions per company policy, included intercompany loans

• Review intercompany reconciliations and perform root cause analysis

• Monthly review and reconciliations of other balance sheet accounts, such as inventory, goods received not invoiced, fixed assets, …

• Review the monthly and yearly closing and monitor the monthly closing process

• Contact local finance teams to resolve issues and discuss monthly closing

• Ensure that monthly team KPI’s are met and improved to ensure a continuous improvement in our business processes

• Ensure all business policies and processes are followed to comply with internal controls, segregation of duties, delegation of authority

• Assist in continuously improving our processes and in optimising our ERP system

• Assist local finance teams when migrating to AX2012 and support them in testing the set-up of the processes and the resulting reporting

• Assist in implementing new tools to further automate our accounting processes

• Assist in reporting on compliance with Group Rules

• Assist in audit processes

• Any ad hoc project or process request

Experience & Education

• You have a Bachelor's degree in Accountancy-Tax or equivalent through experience;

• You have more than 5 years of experience in a similar position;

• You are fluent in English ;

• You have knowledge of ERP packages and MS Office (extensive Excel experience is a must);

• Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics and data entry is considered a plus;

• Experience within a multi-cultural environment is a plus.

Interpersonal skills

• You have strong written and verbal communication skills;

• Continuous improvement is your focus;

• You work in an analytical, accurate way with an eye for detail; 

• You deliver qualitative and reliable output;

• You dare to look critically at your own work;

• You have a hands–on mentality 

• You are an enthusiastic team player who maintains constructive working relationships;

• You work independently and take up responsibility for your work.

Benefits

• Indefinite contract with a 6‑month probationary period.

• Work in a dynamic, pleasant, international work environment

• Excellent work-life balance

• Hybrid work (3 days at office, 2 days remotely)

• Monthly transportation and meal allowance

• Annual bonus

• Summer, Easter and Christmas allowance, gifts for children

• Subsidized MultiSport card

• Additional health package

• The possibility of continuous learning and progress