General Information

Location:

• City: Carnaxide
• Country: Portugal
• Region: Europe

Job Category: Finance Job Type: Regular Type of Contract: Permanent Working time: Full-time Work schedule: Day shift Solvay is a science company whose technologies bring benefits to many aspects of daily life. With more than 24,100 employees in 64 countries, Solvay bonds people, ideas and elements to reinvent progress. The Group seeks to create sustainable shared value for all, notably through its Solvay One Planet plan crafted around three pillars: protecting the climate, preserving resources and fostering better life. The Group?s innovative solutions contribute to safer, cleaner, and more sustainable products found in homes, food and consumer goods, planes, cars, batteries, smart devices, health care applications, water and air purification systems. Founded in 1863, Solvay today ranks among the world?s top three companies for the vast majority of its activities and delivered net sales of ?10.2 billion in 2019. Solvay is listed on Euronext Brussels (SOLB) and Paris and in the United States, where its shares (SOLVY) are traded through a Level I ADR program.
Solvay Busines Services (SBS) is the global organization supporting internal and external growth by integrating the major end-to-end administrative processes as well as the information services of the Solvay Group, through three strategic objectives: strategic agility and customer centricity, service excellence and talents and innovation.

Job Overview and Responsibilities

In the context of Service center development about accounting management of Solvay Group entities, we are looking for an experienced accounting specialist for French companies in the accounting platform department. To support globally Businesses, Functions and Corporate for decision making, by providing user friendly financial reports (Balance sheets, Cash Flow, Profit and Loss statements, ?), compliant with legal and Group requirements, through standardized, automated and streamlined processes. Key Responsibilities are:

• Run the closure for a given legal entity, according to closing timetable, perform technical and accounting controls, analyse and solve blocking matters and release financial package for consolidation;
• Perform accounting operations, according to Company Accounting Manager (CAM)/Director requests, needs and guidelines, in line with accounting standards and closing deadlines;
• Perform accounting analysis, provide insights and solve accounting and technical issues;
• Take responsibility and ownership for a part or whole legal entity financial statements. Report to financial responsible periodically;
• Analyse problems to understand its root cause, proposing remediation solutions to be implemented and followed-up with the stakeholders (businesses, sites);
• Prepare analytical review for CAM/CAD;
• Answer external auditors requests;
• Represent CAM/CAD in the relationship with the Service Units, as accounting and technical issues are concerned;
• Supervise/liaise complex reporting issues (mergers, carve-outs, acquisitions);
• Able to manage a transversal financial topic for a country/region;
• Lead/participate in small projects and continuous improvement initiatives

Education and Experience

• Education: University degree in accounting or finance, ideally certification in international accounting or equivalent;
• 4 to 5 years professional Experience in accounting, including relevant experience in audit firm or international group

Skills

• Solid knowledge of accounting practices, processes and tools, and IFRS
• Financial analysis and Analytical capabilities
• Autonomy and accountability
• Technical fluency (e.g. Consolidation)
• SAP FI/CO
• Fluent English
• French (intermediate or capacity to learn)

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