Senior Accountant

JOB SUMMARY

Under general supervision, this position is responsible to perform the complete Accounts function, including Accounts payables, Cash postings, Journal Entries mainly for TSI in Germany and France.  Moreover all month end and year end activities.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Cash management

• Monitor bank account
• process vendor payments  in timely manner
• Intercompany payments including Dividend payment

2. AR

• customer credit check and approval of a credit limit up on 50K €

3. AP

• Ensure strict adherence to corporate policies and budgets
• Analysis of variances including commentary reporting
• Ensure correct sales tax treatments for the transaction
• Perform data entry for accounts payable
• Handle invoice or payment related queries
• Perform AP month end closing, including housekeeping of AP aging report and accrual of  expense
• Perform other AP functions and activities, i.e. supplier invoices matching and supplier master creation and maintenance
• Raise intercompany billings and reconciliations
• Accounting for fixed asset additions, disposals and depreciation
• payroll posting

4. TAXES

• Preparation and trasmission of value added tax return
• Preparation and trasmission of recapitulative statement (EC Sales)
• Preparation and transmission of Intrastat
• Calculation of capital gain tax and reporting to the tax office and Federal Bank Germany

5. Monthly statements

• preparation of the month close reporting for Finance Director
• reconciliation balance sheet account
• GM analyse
• obsolete provision
• foreign currency valuation

6. Annual accounts

• Preparation of the annual figures for the local tax advisors according to country specific regulations (Germany and France)
• Participate in audits
• Organization of yearly inventories including posting of Inventory corrections

JOB REQUIREMENTS

1. Education

• Required: Abitur (2nd school diploma)
• Desired:  2 year trade school degree in accounting or business

2. Experience

• At least 5 years experience working in a position with tasks similar to those described above.

2. Knowledge of:

• General accounting knowledge
• English
• French (not mandatory)
• SAP (not mandatory)

2. Skills and Abilities

• Computer and data entry
• Detail oriented – above average analytical, research, and problem solving skills
• Good verbal communication skills
• Ability to work with others
• Comfortable working with numbers; good math skills
• Must maintain high degree of confidentiality
• Must be able to work under time constraints and deadlines