Position: General Accountant    

Based: Łódź, Poland

Contract: 12 months

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conducting a range of activities in line with corporate policies, standard procedures and established operational and financial control frameworks
   
• Implementing and adhering to US GAAP and local statutory GAAP processes, accounting policies and procedures
   
• Ensuring timely compliance with internal control policies and SoX environment, including timely completion of internal and external audit requests
   
• Preparing standard financial reports (e.g. balance sheets, income statements, monthly closing reports) according to US GAAP, Local Statutory GAAP or other regulatory requirements
   
• Compiling and analysing business information to prepare journal entries and document business transactions
   
• Identifying, researching and escalating accounting matters and/or process breakdowns that could result in financial misstatement and control exceptions or deficiencies
   
• Implementing financial statements, analytical review processes and reporting, including completion of required balance sheet account reconciliations and external reporting disclosure schedules
   
• Working with others to complete regulatory filings, internal audits, external audits, operational audits and other required activities
   
• Supporting the delivery of continuous improvement activities, including identification and escalation of identified issues
   
• Supporting the production and the standard library of management reports, with initial variance analysis and commentary within the agreed timeline

CANDIDATE PROFILE:

• Around 2 years of accounting experience; strongly preferred with knowledge of Fixed Assets, General ledger Accounting, Financial Reporting, which includes multinational group accounting focused on US GAAP.
• Exposure working in a matrix-based organisational hierarchy.
• Exposure working in multi-national Consumer Goods business environment and experience working in a global financial shared services centre supporting multiple countries
• Exposure with ERP (SAP preferred) and regional/global US GAAP based group reporting systems
• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Fluent English language skills
• Good communication (written and verbal) skills
• Excellent problem solving, analytical and organizational skills
• Demonstrated ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workload
• Ability to adapt to changing work responsibilities across various accounting activities
• Ability to work well within a team and is proactive in managing and improving own work
• Self-starter mentality and proactive in initiating action steps