Chief Accountant North-America

The organisation

BOORTMALT, a multinational owned by the French cooperative AXEREAL, the French cooperative TEREOS and the investment funds TEMASEK and UNIGRAINS, is a rapidly growing company that grew in the past 92 years from a local company to a world player. With over 27 production facilities worldwide, Boortmalt is one of the largest malting producers in the world.

Their global organisation is focused on producing an extensive range of high-quality malt types to meet the exacting requirements of their brewing and distilling customers around the world.

By using the most modern production techniques and with their far-reaching logistics capability, they can supply world markets both effectively and efficiently.

The position

As Regional Chief Accountant North-America, you will be the overall responsibility for the accounting, tax, legal and non-raw materials purchasing deliverables in a context where the accounting and tax function are outsourced. Together with the North America FP&A Lead colleague, you will have overall responsibility for all finance related matters for Boortmalt in both Canada and United States of America.

Tasks & responsibilities

In this role, your tasks will include:

• Act as the main liaison with external Accountants and ensure quality and timely monthly accounting closes, tax compliance and clean audits
• Responsible for corporate income tax returns and other fiscal filings in liaison with external tax consultants
• Liaison with tax authorities, including tax audits
• Maintaining a good relationship with company auditors
• Liaise with the external company secretary and tax advisors when required
• Monthly cash flow and working capital forecast
• In charge of ad hoc accounting analyses
• Contribute to group financial processes improvements and maintain controls integrity
• Property, insurance and legal matters with the support of external advisors when required
• Be the contact person of the Group Indirect Purchasing Manager for related initiatives in the region
• Be the liaison with the banks to support the European headquarter based treasury team if needed

Candidate profile

The person we are looking for has the following profile:

• Master’s degree in finance or equivalent in experience
• 10 years of experience as qualified accountant or in a similar position
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Office
• Affinity with Oracle’s JD Edwards or equivalent systems are considered an asset
• Fluent in English. Spanish and/or French would be considered a plus

The offer

If you want to join the “Masters of malt”, we offer a very wide range of national and international career opportunities, an attractive salary and benefits.

Interested?

You can apply to this position by using the link below. For more information please contact Wendy Stickelbroeck, +31 (0)6 12 24 13 00 (mobile) or +31 (0)23 754 86 60 (office).