Accounting Specialist

  • Full-time

Company Description

It’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee. At JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS, we’ve made it our mission to find out. Our people have been raising the bar since day one, thinking fast and acting even faster to make an impact that’s felt around the world. JDE is the home to some of the most well-known coffee brands in the world. To date, our coffee and tea portfolio is available in over 140 countries and includes iconic household names such as Jacobs, Tassimo, Moccona, Senseo, L’OR, Douwe Egberts, Super, Kenco, Pilao and Gevalia. We’ve built our business on the belief that everyone deserves the coffee they love – no matter who you are, where you live or how you take it.

Job Description

You will reconcile accounts, post journal entries and maintain a complete and accurate general ledger in accordance with accounting principles and reporting schedules, in order that the function has a full and accurate statement of its financial position

  • Complete assigned daily ledger entries and other financial transactions in accordance with accounting principles so that the general ledger is accurate and up-to-date.         
  • Execute accounting activities
  • Ensures correctness and completeness of the general ledger
  • Ensure compliance to IFRS and local reporting standards and tax regulations
  • Ensure accounting/VAT flows are aligned with operational flows
  • Preparation of statutory accounts in accordance with BE GAAP
  • Bridge IFRS reporting and BE statutory results
  • Monthly tax calculation (including deferred taxes)
  • Ensures compliance with the Internal Control framework
  • Collects, compiles, verifies and analyses financial information and prepares financial reports and accounting statements for management purposes, including profit and loss statements, balance sheets
  • Support Finance related special projects.
  • Is responsible for determining the organization’s accounting policies and the communication of these policies throughout the organization.
  • Directs and reviews a variety of accounting and reporting activities to ensure that the organization’s financial resources are managed in accordance with accounting principles and comply with all relevant regulations, laws, and standards
  • Leads, directs, evaluates and develops a team of accounting professionals to ensure that accounting and reporting activities are completed accurately and on time.
  • Reviews all financial reports and accounting statements to ensure they have been accurately prepared.
  • Preparation of financial reports and accounting statements

Qualifications

For this role as an Accounting Specialist, we’re looking for someone who has the following skills and experience:

  • 2 years of relevant working experience;  or bachelor degree in Accounting and Tax
  • Good Excel skills
  • Accurate, flexible thinking, analytical skills
  • Team spirit, result and solution oriented
  • Drive & ambition 
  • Dutch/English/French (at least 2 fluent orally and in writing)

Nice to have: 

  • Experience in a FMCG environment
  • SAP experience
  • Keen to improve processes and embrace new technologies e.g. Robotics

 

Additional Information

If you’re brimming with entrepreneurial spirit and a drive to succeed, you’ll fit right in at JDE. Working globally and locally, our Associates have been positively influencing the world of coffee for over 250 years. We love people who are not afraid to try, and who try until they get it right. We value strong convictions and encourage debate. And all this in an open, friendly environment where you can approach anyone and grow any way you like.

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