Chief Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Manages the Global/Regional Consolidation & Reporting department and activities;
• Coordinate and assign work to accounting, reporting, and consolidations experts to confirm to monthly cycle, ensuring timely, adequate and reliable monthly financial closing process for assigned scope, including management of all relevant central consolidation and elimination adjustments;
• Manage the team who prepares the global/regional monthly close and reporting instructions, review and perform validation of the monthly reporting submitted to ensure quality of reporting;
• Providing accounting technical guidance and assistance across the defined region and business regarding IFRS and company group accounting treatments;
• Manages performance of the team that meets established requirements of quality, quantity, completeness and timeliness;
• Driving regular updates to the accounting and reporting community in the center on closing instructions, changes in the policies, application of the new standards and policies etc;

Required Skills and Experience:

• More than 10 years of experience in variuos accounting roles and capable of analyzing complex processes and issues;
• Very good level of English language skills, both orally and in writing;
• SAP Knowledge;
• Good understanding of Consolidation systems, preferably HFM;
• Working experience in regional/global consolidation and reporting;
• Master degree in Accounting of Finance;
• Very good expertise knowledge in financial accounting (IFRS, accounting processes)
• Flexible and adaptable to change in accordance with business needs;