Senior Accounting Director

The organisation

Fast growing international organization with over 40 offices worldwide

The position

The company is moving the Headquarters to Amsterdam and is therefore looking for a Senior Accounting Director to set up the finance & accounting department.

Tasks & responsibilities

Primarily support the overall organization by providing strategic and day-to-day leadership over the following:

Key responsibilities include the following:

• Manage the Global General month end close for approximately 70 global ledgers.
• Further refinement and adherence to a global close calendar
• Lead the global project to reduce and streamline the timing of the period end close process
• M&A lead for accounting related integration and support
• Enhance the effectiveness of the moth end close process by refining Blackline and a corporate tier review process for all month end close package submissions
• Provide accurate and timely dissemination of IFRS, Dutch GAAP, US GAAP and local STAT financial reports including, but not limited to, internal and external statements (monthly, quarterly and annually)
• Perform analytical review of Global operating results to ensure the accuracy of accounting records
• Identify and address accounting issues in a timely manner
• Review Corporate and regional key account reconciliations and ensure exceptions are corrected on a timely basis for various accounts, including intercompany accounts
• Working with the Technical Accounting department, Co-lead the development and adherence to all accounting policies and controls
• Ensure all processes are appropriately documented and updated as needed
• Ensure the consolidation is in conformity with IFRS and US GAAP and that eliminations and foreign currency translations are correct
• Review monthly close process including global consolidation and seek opportunities to standardize and automate processes to gain efficiencies
• Partner with Technical Accounting for Group and local external audit requirements
• Partner with Global Tax for local tax reporting requirements
• Support ad-hoc projects as required
• Develop, evaluate, and adopt IFRS and US GAAP accounting standard updates and develop, update and maintain relevant accounting policies.
• Partner and coordinate cross-functionally to understand business transactions and effectively communicate accounting issues with various departments throughout the company.
• Assist Technical accounting with the preparation of accounting memos providing documentation of the Company's application of accounting principles to specific transactions
• Assist technical accounting in preparing support for and managing the year-end financial audit.
• Assist in monitoring workload, train and evaluate staff, and hold employees accountable for performance and accuracy.
• Ensure team members acquire necessary skills and performance attributes, in line with business and personal development needs.
• Motivate and reward employees including providing salary increases, bonuses and promotions within allocated budgets and within company guidelines.

Candidate profile

• CA/ CPA/ RA qualification
• Big 4 experience
• Expert knowledge of IFRS
• Experience with a Global company with significant presence in the Americas, EMEA, APAC, and the Nordics
• Strategic and visionary mindset combined with strong project management and analytical skills
• Experience with M&A integration
• Strong decision-making skills
• Continuous improvement and process mindset with a passion for measuring results through data and metrics
• Strong interpersonal skills with all levels of management, vendors, consultants and contractors
• Ability to manage multiple projects/tasks in a demanding, fast-paced environment
• Ability to adapt to changes and work with tight timelines
• Passion for creating and building system infrastructure and processes
• Understanding of processes and procedures in a global environment

The offer

• An excellent salary package
• Flexible working environment, 2-3 days from home

Interested?

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