Lead Accountant – Assistant Manager – French
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Lead Accountant managing financial activities and operations for global clients in a fast-moving tech-driven environment. Collaborating with local teams and ensuring compliance with internal standards.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure timely completion of period close processes
- Review, control & supervise reconciliation process at monthly / quarterly cycles
- Interpret, apply and explain complex accounting principles and commercial business impact
- Identify and resolve issues across different sets of data and across processes
- Find opportunities to improve closing activities and drive process improvement
- Manage intercompany transactions and reconciliations, ensuring accuracy, timely settlement, and compliance with internal policies and accounting standards
- Monitor and reconcile inventory balances, ensuring accurate valuation, timely adjustments, and compliance with accounting policies and internal controls.
- Responsible for managing daily treasury operations, including cash positioning, liquidity planning, bank reconciliations, and ensuring optimal cash flow to support business needs.
- Responsible for preparing and submitting monthly VAT returns, ensuring all transactions are accurately recorded and compliant with applicable tax regulations.
- Oversees the Fixed Asset register and Finance Master Data to ensure proper capitalization, accurate depreciation, high quality data maintenance, and adherence to internal policies and accounting standards.
- Generate Statutory financial reports according to local GAAP standards (monthly, quarterly and annual).
- Identify and provide key financial data to enable decision-making at senior leadership level.
- Ensure implementation and understanding of the financial policies and procedures in compliance with local legislation and the company rules
- Ensure compliance to finance standards and practices
- Lead all aspects of operations and support the junior accountants in the team
- Actively participate in migrations / coordination – supervising the transitions
- Be the primary point of contact for Auditors, Controllers
- Ensure Internal controls are in place and take a leading role in mitigating risks
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
- Significant years multi-GAAP accounting experience
- Statutory knowledge
- Proficiency in the English language
- Has a deep understanding of how operational processes link to the financial statements
- Understand the interdependencies of key financial metrics / ratios.
- Effective interpersonal skills and highly professional style when taking care of country affiliates & business partners
- Highly organized with consistent track record to meet commitments
- Able to prioritize / re-organize to work through roadblocks
- Is comfortable to execute through uncertainty and adopt change in response to new information.
- Computer Literacy: MS Office, particularly Excel
- ERP system (Oracle or SAP)
- ACCA certificate
- A second European language is an advantage
Benefits:
- Be a transformation leader – Work at the cutting edge of AI, automation, and digital innovation
- Make an impact – Drive change for global enterprises and solve business challenges that matter
- Accelerate your career — Get hands-on experience, mentorship, and continuous learning opportunities
- Work with the best – Join 140,000+ bold thinkers and problem-solvers who push boundaries every day
- Thrive in a values-driven culture – Our courage, curiosity, and incisiveness - built on a foundation of integrity and inclusion - allow your ideas to fuel progress
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