General Ledger Accountant

Purpose of the role: Ensure accurate and timely general ledger accounting and support assigned month-end, statutory and audit activities in accordance with legal requirements and internal accounting guidelines.

What you will do with us

• Prepare and post manual journal entries and maintain complete supporting documentation.
• Prepare and post assigned local-GAAP entries and VAT-clearing entries.
• Support month-end and year-end close through assigned checklist, cut-off and closing activities.
• Calculate and prepare assigned accruals and support related postings and documentation within the defined accounting process.
• Perform reconciliations of assigned general ledger accounts and clarify differences.
• Perform assigned inventory accounting activities, including data collection and physical-count or WIP support.
• Perform assigned fixed-asset activities, including creation requests, physical-count support, disposals or leasing documentation, investment-status coordination and AUC follow-up.
• Perform petty-cash management and reconciliation for the assigned scope.
• Monitor assigned local accounting and tax requirements and reflect relevant requirements in day-to-day accounting work.
• Prepare assigned schedules and supporting information for statutory financial statements; no overall statutory ownership is implied.
• Support payroll-related postings and reconciliations where these are part of the local accounting scope.
• Perform assigned intercompany activities, including backcharge support and selected intercompany postings or reconciliations.
• Prepare audit, tax-file and statutory-closing documentation and provide evidence for internal and external audit requests; overall audit ownership remains with the responsible senior role.
• Participate in accounting process improvements, projects and special accounting tasks within the assigned scope.

What you will bring with you

• Completed commercial education or degree in accounting, finance or business administration.
• Practical experience in general ledger accounting, journal postings, reconciliations and month-end close.
• Knowledge of SAP FI and Microsoft Excel.
• Working knowledge of local accounting requirements; tax or statutory knowledge appropriate to the assigned tasks is beneficial.
• Accurate, structured and reliable working style
• Excellent command of English; knowledge of other European languages would be an advantage.

Why join us?

• The love of animals is our Fressnapf DNA – if you have a dog, you can bring him/her to work with you
• Unique corporate culture – with us you will experience openness, transparency and appreciation in an innovative, dynamic environment – because we love what we do
• Here you can be YOU, the “you” culture will be used across entire company and across all hierarchical levels
• An extremely successful business model in combination with permanent expansion and high growth, even in uncertain times
• Work-life balance and flexible working hours – with us you have the opportunity use the advantages of mobile working (2-3 days/week in the office)
• Because you deserve it! – Attractive remuneration as well as various additional services and benefits, e.g. employee discounts or cafeteria scheme, are a matter of course for us
• Stay connected! – Cohesion is very important to us: with the employee app or digital
• We Care! – The well-being of our employees is important to us
• Your development is important to us – we support you with a wide range of learning opportunities