Senior Financial Accountant
- Full-time
Company Description
MindMaze is the world’s leading Neurotechnology startup built on more than a decade of pioneering research at the intersection of virtual reality and neuroscience. Our breakthrough platform combines virtual & augmented reality, neuroscience and artificial intelligence to build intuitive human machine interfaces. Our first products help patients suffering from severe disabilities following a neurological incident.
Join our eclectic mix of scientists, physicists, engineers and clinicians to help change the world!
Job Description
MindMaze is seeking to hire a general accountant, who will report to MindMaze’s Head of Accounting and help achieve operational success across all MindMaze subsidiaries.
You will :
- Ensure that all receivables, receipts, and payable items are processed and recorded accurately and timely; participate in and monitor collection of receivables
- Reconcile general ledger accounts and research to ensure accuracy
- Prepare and enter month end journal entries
- Prepare schedules for the month end / quarter end reporting package
- Complete the monthly Financial Statement Checklist and supporting package documentation
- Perform and analyze all bank / credit card reconciliations
- Manage the month-end general ledger closing, record journal entries, accruals, payroll and Intercompany transactions
- Reconcile bank statements ensuring all transactions are recorded and documented accurately
- Reconcile monthly the balance sheet and P&L accounts
- Prepare financial statements including variance analysis
- Prepare various monthly internal and ad-hoc reporting for analysis
- Ensure compliance with generally accepted accounting principles and company procedures / policies
- Support audit processes, preparing internal and external audit schedules as needed
- Assist with the preparation of monthly forecasts and update figures in Navision (budget/forecasting) system
- Manage all payments of payable invoices and expense reports on a weekly basis
To support you, MindMaze will:
- Provide an international collaborative work environment
- Provide mentoring
- Allow flexible employment terms and conditions
Qualifications
Skills that we look out for are among
- Very strong organizational skills to cope with multitasking and to remain on top of things, at all times
- Total focus on details and accuracy
- Ability to think constructively and to develop ideas to solve unique and complex issues
- Demonstrated ability to work in a fast paced, deadline driven environment
- Work effectively in a team environment and with 3rd parties
- Excellent communication skills to communicate effectively with colleagues from different departments, non finance staff and external partners
- Must be proactive and able to work independently
- High degree of flexibility to embrace specific internal challenges and to respond to changes in the work environment
Your qualifications
- Min. 5 years of accounting work experience, with international exposure
- Strong computer skills, advanced MS Excel
- Chartered Specialist in Accounting and Financial Management with Federal Diploma of Higher Education
- Min. C2 level in English and in French
Icing on the cake
- Experience in managing multiple entities
- SAP or Navision systems expert user
- Experience working in a fiduciary
Additional Information
To be successful, you can illustrate the fact that you have the following abilities:
- Working autonomously: setting tasks and direction under limited supervision
- Oral and written communication: ability to write clearly and succinctly in a variety of communication settings and styles; ability to get messages across that have the desired effect
- Planning accurately: setting objectives and goals; breaking down work into the process steps; developing schedules and task/people assignments; anticipating and adjusting to problems and roadblocks