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
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