General Ledger Accountant

💼Job Title: General ledger accountant

👨‍💻Job Type: Contract

👨‍💻Who can apply: Freelancers

📍Location: Brussels Belgium

📍Language: English

💼Work regime: Hybrid (2 days/week onsite)

🔥Keywords: General Ledger, Accountant, IFRS, FP&A,

Sector: Our client stands as a globally renowned leader in financial messaging, spearheading safe and secure networks that enable seamless communication and transactions among financial institutions worldwide. Serving as the cornerstone of global financial telecommunication, it plays a pivotal role in facilitating the backbone of the industry's infrastructure.

Position Overview:

Within the Financial Control Unit, the Group Controllership team aims to safeguard operational excellence and compliance in the areas of technical accounting, financial consolidation, statutory accounting and key financial processes.

As a general ledger accountant consultant, the consultant will ensure smooth compliant accounting process. You will plan, organize and control general ledger accounting operations and control/analyze balance sheets/profit & loss accounts to ensure accuracy of accounting records and compliance with internal procedures and accounting rules. He/she will perform specific ad-hoc IFRS analyses, for example when a new large contract is signed with a vendor, quarterly account reconciliations and year-end audit preparation.

The consultant, together with the Group Controllership Manager, will have regular contacts with the Group Financial Controller, the FP&A and pricing department and other key Finance Managers as well as with external financial auditors which requires strong interpersonal communication skills both written and verbal. We are looking for a dynamic, quality and control minded great teammate with a strong accounting or audit background to reinforce our Group Controllership team. This position is a unique opportunity to increase your financial expertise in the Headquarters of a well-known, fast growing, technology driven multinational.

What you'll do:

Lead the accurate and timely monthly and annual closings/analysis in compliance with client quality standards. This includes booking of accruals and deferrals, accounting entries, accounts reconciliation, reviews of data and trends, and the creation of revenue reports/analysis for upper-level management.

Oversee ad hoc in-depth accounting treatment analyses. Provide information, documentation, comments and recommendations to management and to concerned departments

Prepare closing notes for the annual report and support in the audit process.

Maintain contacts with relevant internal and external parties to answer queries, capture information and resolve pending issues.

Coordinate the relationships with the internal and external collaborators (e.g. Pricing and FP&A departments, accounting system experts, financial auditors).

Find opportunities for process and internal control improvements and lead and/or control implementations of solutions. May also participate in and/or lead projects within the department.

Build and maintain working knowledge and understanding of key business drivers and strategy for area of expertise.

Support the rest of team on the group general accounting processes including the consolidation, intercompany and monthly closing processes, the entity controlling of the group and headquarters.

What you bring:

Good SAP knowledge

Proficient in general ledger accounting (e.g. accrual/deferral, costs and revenue recognition principles)

Knowledge about IFRS is an asset

Fluent in English and in either French or Dutch

Proficient in the use of Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Excellent technical accounting knowledge and related account reconciliations

Knowledge of the reconciliation tool Blackline is an asset

A little about us:

Innova Solutions is a diverse and award-winning global technology services partner. We provide our clients with strategic technology, talent, and business transformation solutions, enabling them to be leaders in their field.

1. Founded in 1998, headquartered in Atlanta (Duluth), Georgia.
2. Employs over 50,000 professionals worldwide, with annual revenue approaching $3.0B.
3. Delivers strategic technology and business transformation solutions globally.
4. Operates through global delivery centers across North America, Asia, and Europe.
5. Provides services for data center migration and workload development for cloud service providers.

Awardee of prestigious recognitions including:

1. Women’s Choice Awards - Best Companies to Work for Women & Millennials, 2024
2. Forbes, America’s Best Temporary Staffing and Best Professional Recruiting Firms, 2023
3. American Best in Business, Globee Awards, Healthcare Vulnerability Technology Solutions, 2023
4. Global Health & Pharma, Best Full Service Workforce Lifecycle Management Enterprise, 2023
5. Received 3 SBU Leadership in Business Awards
6. Stevie International Business Awards, Denials Remediation Healthcare Technology Solutions, 2023