Job Title: Finance and reporting specialist - France and Netherlands
Location:
Elancourt, J, FR, 78990
Business Unit:
Nul
Posting Date:
Apr 18, 2024
Job Description:
MISSION
Reporting to the Financial Controller for France and the Netherlands, the Finance and Reporting Specialist for France and the Netherlands is a member of the finance function for these two countries.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITES
Accounting under local standards:
- Helping the Finance French team keep the accounts under French GAAP:
- Monitoring and inputting customer receipts
- Monitoring and entry of social security and tax debts
- Monitoring and entering other calculated items (PIDR, 1% commission, deferred income, etc.)
- Coordinate the bookkeeping under Dutch accounting standards by the local accounting firm;
Compliance with laws and regulations:
- Participate in the accounting and tax compliance of companies within its scope;
- Participate in the production of annual accounts and associated legal documents;
- Participate on an ad hoc basis in the preparation of tax returns;
- Occasionally helping to prepare other returns (e.g. educational reports, Banque de France and INSEE surveys, etc.);
- Coordinating external audits (statutory and contractual);
- Participating in other tax and social audits.
Reporting and internal control:
- Preparing certain adjustments from local accounting systems and to Group accounting standards (US GAAP);
- Enter the Group reporting into the consolidation system on a monthly basis;
- Prepare or supervise the preparation of certain monthly/quarterly/annual statements presented to the Group (orders and sales, trade receivables, cash flow forecasts, etc.);
- Carrying out and documenting part of the internal control system in accordance with SOX standards;
- Coordinate internal audits;
- For the Netherlands: Draw up the budget for local central functions (general management, operations, finance, HR) and business units;
- For France: Participating in the preparation of the budget for local central functions (general management, operations, finance, HR) and preparing budgets for certain business units.
Support for foreign business units :
- Assisting the operational and financial departments of the foreign affairs units with local financial issues.
Development of the financial function:
- Co-ordinate or participate in It and process development
Continuous improvement :
- Take permanent and sustainable action to improve all processes within his/her area of responsibility, by eliminating malfunctions and non-value-added tasks;
- Propose improvements for the processes in which he/she will participate.
Framing :
- Supervise work-study finance students where appropriate
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- Degree in finance, management, accounting, auditing
- 2-4 years' experience
REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL KNOLEDGE & SKILLS
- Carrying out complex financial tasks
- Gather and respond to the financial information needs of the BUs and the Group
- Fluent in French & English
- Ability to manage and supervise staff
- Knowledge of GAAP and US GAAP accounting systems
- IT skills: Excel, Word, Outlook, Powerpoint
- Proficiency in at least one ERP system