Accountant

On behalf of our client, a leading company in the telecommunications industry, we are looking for a dedicated and detail-oriented Accountant. This role offers the opportunity to develop your accounting skills, work with international teams, and broaden your experience in a global business environment.

The position: Accountant - hybrid work in Krakow

Who You'll Work With

The Global Accounting and Reporting group is a worldwide team of approximately 200 professionals with responsibilities for international accounting, external financial reporting, and technical accounting that are committed to drive change and business impact while maintaining a strong and compliant system of internal controls. It is responsible for the US GAAP and local GAAP accounting and compliance for over 250 legal entities across the world. GAR team is built up of financial professionals that represent the company in over 130 countries working in diverse and challenging environments to make sure that the company operates in full compliance with local rules and regulation. GAR has excellent opportunities for ambitious financial professionals.

For this role, the focus is on two European Buy/Sell entities, who both operate worldwide business and have very significant operational activity and transaction levels. The team is directly responsible for month-end close procedures, reporting, financial statement preparation and audit, and SOX and local compliance.

What You'll Do

• Be responsible for the VAT accounting and perform on a monthly basis the reconciliations in the ARCS tool, and the clearing of the VAT accounts.
• Collaborate and solve issues with different parties (Indirect Tax, Accounts Payable & Receivable) to ensure VAT entries are accurate and correct in GL.
• Participate in month-end GL close procedures, including balance sheet reviews, flux analysis, quarterly close entries, FX reporting.
• Provide support on the day-to-day accounting of a number of holding entities, assist with month-end close procedures and reconciliations for these entities.
• Support the team on GL related issues, statutory compliance and financial statements, and projects.
• Support any audit requirement request and working closely with different teams to ensure full compliance to regulations and policies.

Who You Are

• Higher education degree.
• At least 3 years of experience in an accounting role, preferably with a large, multinational company. Familiar with monthly GL close process and statutory financial statement preparation.
• Knowledge of financial systems: basic accounting in Oracle ERP and Microsoft office programs are essential.
• Fluent in English (writing, reading and understanding).
• Basic understanding of VAT in Europe.

Desired Skills

• Ability to work under tight deadlines.
• Results oriented and a self-starter.
• Excellent communication skills, also in case of complicated issues.
• Ability to work with cross-border teams.

Thank you very much for your interest in this opportunity and for taking the time to submit your application.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we regret that we are only able to contact candidates whose qualifications and experience most closely match the requirements of the role.

Thank you for your understanding.