Senior GL Accountant

THE EMPLOYER

We work together with our partner, a Fortune Global 500 corporation, multinational leader in the field of energy with its operations in over 30 countries worldwide supporting a wide range of business disciplines. The finance operations centre in Prague employs over 130 employees across 4 divisions and business segments, support services, and internal operations.

THE OFFER

• Competitive remuneration in line with your profile caliber.
• Extensive corporate benefits package.
• International working environment.
• All relevant training and coaching for your continuous professional growth.
• Mixed, international, and positive working environment.
• Accessible and supportive management.
• Free refreshments in the workplace.
• Social events and team-building activities.
• State of the art office building in a centric part of Prague.

THE ROLE

This role controls and finalise a critical part of the company’s month-end close process resulting in complete and accurate financial statements. The Senior General Ledger Accountant is responsible for preparing, managing, and controlling journal entries, preparing balance sheets, P&L statements, financial analyses and reporting.

Within the role, some of the key tasks will be:

• Ensuring the integrity of accounting information by recording, verifying, and entering transactions.
• Maintaining accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, reconciling transactions; resolving discrepancies and irregularities.
• Analyze revenues, expenses, account balances to ensure they are recorded appropriately on a monthly basis.
• Summarizing financial status by collecting information; preparing balance sheet, profit & loss, analytical review and other statements.
• Facilitating and completing monthly closing procedures.
• Daily routine related to GL activities.
• Assuring smooth month, quarter and year-end closings.
• Performing account, vendor and customer reconciliations.
• Close cooperation with operations and business on resolving various GL related matters.
• Preparing financial statements, supporting schedules and disclosures for quarterly corporate reporting under IFRS
• Analysis and improvement of existing processes.
• Contribution to the process and internal controls improvements.
• Participation and support of regular audits.
• Providing ad-hoc information and related analysis to stakeholders.
• Contributing to the team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Acting as a backup as per assigned functions.
• Perform other relevant tasks as per management assignment.

THE IDEAL JOB FOR YOU IF YOU HAVE

• Relevant education and experience in the accounting field.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize.
• Detail-oriented and a team player.
• Ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Willingness to learn new things and develop together with the company.
• IT Proficiency (Excel, SAP).