Group Accountant

THE ROLE

As Group Accountant, you will play a central role in group consolidation, reporting and the preparation of the consolidated financial statements. You will ensure accurate, consistent and timely financial information at group level, with LucaNet as the core consolidation and reporting tool.

You will work closely with the local finance teams in Germany, the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Italy and Greece, as well as with Group Finance, management, auditors and advisors, and you will help develop scalable accounting and reporting processes in an international environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Independently perform and manage the group consolidation in LucaNet, including German and international entities
• Prepare and further develop monthly group reporting (consolidated balance sheet, consolidated P&L, cash flow reporting, management reports)
• Prepare and support annual and interim group financial statements, ensuring complete and timely financial information
• Perform intercompany reconciliations and eliminations (receivables, payables, revenues, expenses)
• Analyze, resolve and permanently clear consolidation differences
• Ensure a consistent, traceable and audit-proof data basis through reconciliation and plausibility checks of data from local accounting systems
• Maintain and further develop LucaNet structures, data models and consolidation processes, with a focus on data quality, efficiency and automation
• Collaborate with local finance teams across Europe: collect reporting data, clarify accounting questions and ensure reporting deadlines are met
• Serve as the main point of contact for auditors and audit teams: coordinate documentation, handle audit requests and support the resolution of audit findings
• Support the preparation and documentation of transfer pricing and the development of a group-wide transfer pricing approach
• Analyze balance sheet and P&L developments; produce reports and data analyses in Excel (pivot tables, complex analyses, reconciliations)
• Contribute to the standardization and further development of group-wide accounting, consolidation and reporting processes

PROFILE Requirements

• Several years of relevant experience in group consolidation, group accounting or consolidated financial reporting
• Mandatory: very good hands-on knowledge of LucaNet for consolidation and reporting
• Experience preparing or managing consolidated financial statements, ideally in an international group environment
• Solid knowledge of intercompany reconciliations and a very good understanding of the balance sheet, P&L and cash flow
• Very good Excel skills (pivot tables, complex data analysis, reconciliations, processing of large data volumes)
• Experience working with auditors, handling audit requests and providing audit documentation
• Very good written and spoken English
• Analytical, structured, hands-on working style with a high degree of independence, accuracy and problem-solving ability
• Confident in working with international finance teams, different entities and local accounting systems

Nice to have

• Knowledge of HGB and/or IFRS
• Experience with foreign currency consolidation
• Knowledge of transfer pricing
• Good German language skills

A plus

• Experience with DATEV Kanzlei-Rechnungswesen, Sage or comparable European accounting systems
• Knowledge of Power Query or Power BI