Accountant BeNe - Dutch or French Speaker
Ghent, BE, 9050
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Description Overview
Exciting opportunity for an experienced Accountant to join the team at our office in Ghent Belgium. You will have solid experience working within statutory accounts and reporting through local statutory bodies - hence a working knowledge of Dutch or French is required. You will work alongside a local team and also work alongside a team of finance professionals based at our new Perrigo Business Services centre in Warsaw, to provide support for BeNe entities.
Scope of the Role
- Performs general accounting activities requiring insight and understanding of the BeNe entity
- Applies accounting techniques and standard practices to the classification and recording of financial transactions
- Interact with local auditors for the audit of allocated processes.
- Performs some closing tasks of a legal entity under local GAAP and US GAAP.
- Will assist in preparing tax reconciliations from local Tax to US GAAP
- Supports Perrigo Business Services in reporting intercompany balances and reconciliations
- May significantly contribute to preparation of a variety of reasonably standard, periodic "intermediate" or "end products”, trial balances, balance sheets, profit-and-loss statements or statements of sourcing and application of funds as well as local country specific external reports to authorities
- Ensures others statutory reporting requirement (social security, Banque de France, Insee,..)
Experience Required
- Professional Bachelor degree or equivalent; typically a minimum of 4 years’ work experience required
- Solid knowledge of SAP and Microsoft Office tools
- Solid understanding of local GAAP requirements that are relevant for BeNe
- Foreign language skills: English required plus Dutch or French
- Good working experience with VAT & Intrastat, local Tax requirements
- Ability to function in a remote team
- Ability to execute fast and accurate
Benefits
We believe our people are our greatest asset. Alongside competitive compensation, we offer benefits tailored to supporting you and your family, as well as career development opportunities to ensure you feel valued and supported, both professionally and personally.
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Hybrid Working Approach
We love our offices and the setting they provide for in-person collaboration and celebration. But we also appreciate the opportunity to work remotely can energise you too, so we promote flexibility with the ability to work two days a week from home in many roles.
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