- Responsible for US GAAP Financial Statements of a European Legal entity.
- Manage Month-End close process and load European legal entities financial data into Business Consolidation System.
- Validation of month-end actual Financial Statement figures and provide accurate, timely and relevant information for financial reporting.
- Preparation of SOX Controls, ensure controls are executed in a timely manner.
- Preparation of monthly reconciliations.
- Perform the account maintenance for payroll, factoring, rebate, commission accounts
- Fulfill Internal Audit Requirements.
- Fulfill External Audit Requirements including US GAAP as well as Local GAAP, support FS preparation
- Governmental reporting: Statistical Office and National Bank of Belgium
Treasury Back Office team:
- Daily settlement of external and intercompany fx hedge transactions, also daily money market transactions(investments): validation and payment run, preparation of related SOX controls, communication with banks
-Daily bank reconciliation of European In-House Banks: daily clearing of treasury clearing accounts of cash pool leaders and the hedging company, daily close of In-House Cash module
- Exchange rate maintenance: daily fx rate upload to SAP and also month-end rate upload from Bloomberg file to SAP
- Month-end close activities: post mark-to-market revaluation of open FX hedges
- Governmental reporting: Deutsche Bundesbank
- Perform review for Customer and Finance accounting cycles
- Ensure quality and completeness of information recorded in auxiliary and general accounting according to the cycle concerned
- Present the analysis of cycles to the chief accountant
- Prepare and book accounting entries and corrections
- Perform internal controls related to accounting cycle reviews
- Preparation of sales reports for group consolidation, ensuring quality and deadline KPI
- Review of reconciliations and justifications of accounts performed by outsourcing company
- Provide information to the statutory auditors
- Actively communicate with outsourcing company responsible for making accounting operations, with local team and business controllers
- Report montlhly financial statements for smaller entity within the group
- Key-user role for customer accounting cycle, single point of contact for group process engineer related to changes at group level; coordinate/update other reviewers about AR related processes
- Booking of bank transactions: transfers, commissions, interest, payroll, AR and AP
related transactions, tax related transactions, other ad-hoc transactions
- Weekly/monthly reconciliation of bank statement balances with GL account balances
- Booking of depreciation of fixed assets
- Quarterly calculation of depreciation for tax purpose
- Reconciliation of FA analytics with GL balances
- FA reports preparation
- Capitalisation and disposal of fixed assets
- Booking of tax related journal entries: CIT, local business tax and innovation
contribution, other VAT related bookings
- Booking of accruals in base of controllers' request, reclassifications between cost natures and/or cost centers, cost allocations received from controllers
- Revaluation of AP and AR balances at the month end
- Transfer and revaluation the balances of bank accounts and loans
- Closing of AP/AR subledgers, GL and TAX modules in the accounting program
(MAX)
- preparation of the financial statements of the subsidiary for consolidation purposes
Department: Tax / Business Tax Compliance and Reporting Services
Client: IT&C area
- Invoice processing, cost allocations, payment processing,
- Expense report audit, weekly and monthly
report preparations for internal audit, AMEX credit card administration
- Involvement in monthly closing: accruals booking, supplier and employee account reconciliation, bank journal entries preparation and booking,
- Cash forecast, involvement in budget preparation,
Accounting program: SAP
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