Accountant Job in Amsterdam, Noord Holland Netherlands

Accountant (statutory)

The Company
Our client is a global specialty chemicals company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (CHMT), with leading positions in diversified markets.  We build the chemistry that makes other products more durable, safer, cleaner and more efficient.  Major industries served include agriculture, building construction, electrical electronics, consumer, general industrial and transportation. 

With global headquarters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, we manufacture products in 31 countries and sell products in over 100 countries.  We have approximately 4,300 employees in research, manufacturing, sales and administrative facilities in every major market of the world, with regional headquarters and shared service centers in São Paulo, Brazil; Shanghai, China; Middlebury, Connecticut, USA; and Manchester, United Kingdom.

For our small team in Amsterdam we are looking for an Accountant who is experienced and specialized in statutory work (be able to own the process and execute the full statutory process) preferably with GL experience.

 

Main responsibilities Accountant

This person will be responsible for external reporting (Statutory, Taxes and possibly CBS, DNB, external audit, compliance and some GL related tasks).

 

-Statutory work is to be done for the nine Dutch entities (full statutory process from a-z) and the three Belgium entities (support the process). 

-Tax work relates on the same basis (nine Dutch entities and Belgium with support of local advise). Tax work includes quarterly international tax packages, tax forecast and monthly assessments.

-All members of the team have also a few GL responsibilities. As a team we are responsible to accurately report our financial information for twelve entities to our corporate office. The GL related responsibilities are in principle limited to Month-End Close related tasks (Accruals and related entries, cost and/or balance sheet reviews (controlling)  and other support to ensure the financial information is complete and nothing is missed or misstated).

 

Experience knowledge

-Dutch GAAP experienced

-US GAAP experienced

-Reconciliation Dutch Gaap statutory to US Gaap administration– including maintain the local SAP ledger

-IFRS knowledge

-Creation of the statutory financial statement (full publication)

-statutory systems

Caseware = pre

             

-Multiple companies, multiple currencies – with EUR Statutory

-International challenging organization

             

GL experience international organization

Experience in month-end close related tasks like accruals, prepaid, quality control, etc

SAP experience (pre)

The ideal candidate is
-Flexible

-Able to deliver results – also under pressure

-Takes initiative – be able to operate with sometimes limited support

-Process improvement needs to be second nature, along with the ability to (jointly where needed) drive the improvements

-We are looking for a specialist that can work well in a team

-Microsoft office skills need to be good, specifically excel word, Access = pre

- English speaker (fluent), Dutch = pre

 

-Education HBO/WO in related field and 3 – 5 year working experience as an Accountant in an international organization