Accountant

Job Description

Your role

This role is an integral part of Digital Realty’s EMEA finance team and will play a pivotal part in achieving the EMEA team finance objectives and deliverables. The primary responsibility of the position is to manage a portfolio of legal entities across Europe for monthly group reporting under US GAAP, leading local statutory reporting, including audits and local compliance requirements (i.e. Tax & VAT)

• Lead the monthly, quarterly & annual group reporting under US GAAP and local GAAP for a portfolio of entities & property set of books
• Ownership of numbers which feed into the set of books from various finance functional areas, including Fixed Assets, Inter company, AR, Bank & Cash, AP, VAT, etc.
• Work in a matrix team of finance colleagues with responsibilities across other functional areas, such as Construction Accounting, Treasury, Tax, SOX, etc.
• Review & process all transactions for your ledgers. Prepare & review all balance sheet accounts as part of month end close controls, including pro-active follow-up to remove reconciling items
• Take responsibility & ownership for local statutory audits for several entities across Europe
• Be a trusted colleague to internal teams such as asset management, sales, FP&A and site operations; as well as manage third-party service providers supporting local compliance & tax filings
• Develop a deep understanding of Digital’s business to be able to input into standardisation of processes across the P2P, O2C and R2R functions, working with colleagues in Europe, Asia and the US.
• Important contribution in the accounting and internal control systems, and be proactive in leading improvements focused on finance operational excellence
• Embrace opportunities to be involved in integration and other finance projects
• Actively seek out ad-hoc & non-routine tasks / projects to dynamically progress your career at Digital Realty
  
  

What You’ll Need

• Qualified accountant, with at least 3 years of experience in a multinational accounting environment
• Experience being fully responsible for several ledger entities or ledgers for monthly HQ reporting & local compliance, including leading audits, VAT reporting and supporting the Tax Dept
• Experience of IFRS, Local GAAP and/or US GAAP beneficial
• Real estate accounting experience & knowledge of lease accounting concepts advantageous
• Understanding & working knowledge of Sarbanes Oxley
• Strong systems knowledge and intermediate/advanced Excel skills are required
  
  

A Bit About Us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company's global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx™) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

What We Can Offer You

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.