Senior Accountant

Discover the opportunity as a Senior Accountant at Höganäs Belgium. By joining our dynamic team, you will lead the monthly/annual closings, ensure the accounting of a sister company in France, and contribute to various special projects. In addition to analysing the balance sheet and managing tax returns, your key role will involve working with different teams to implement significant improvements. Join us for a rewarding work experience, where team spirit and challenging tasks define our corporate culture.

About the position

In this role, you will report to the Finance and Business Control Manager and you will have different responsibilities:

- Provide support or independently perform the monthly/annual closings and reporting package to Corporate.
- Critically analyse the balance sheet and make the necessary reconciliations.
- Prepare, execute, and analyse the tax and VAT returns, and contribute to financial activities.
- Be in charge of the accounting of a small sales office sister company (France)
- Make various entries as needed: payroll entries, depreciation, commissions, etc.
- To drive the monthly costing analysis and provide monthly explanations of variances to the management team.
- Assist on specific projects in the controlling area (standard costing and annual budgets, internal controls of financial procedures, financial inventory management )
- Collaborate with other internal departments to implement special projects and improvements.

**Profile**:
We are looking for someone with strong accounting skills, an analytical approach, a focus on results and details, an ability to collaborate with cross-departmental teams. With good communication skills at all levels and high ethical standards, this dynamic person will contribute to our financial success while maintaining exemplary professional standards.

In this context, we are looking for a person who:

- Have at least a bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting
- Have a proven experience in accounting/finance in an industrial company, and ideally with ERP systems.
- Are of course familiar with the Microsoft Office tools
- Are fluent in French and have a very good working knowledge of both written and spoken English
- Proven knowledge of French accounting practices is an asset

Working at Höganäs

We aim to offer a great and meaningful place to work where you can fulfil your potential and ambitions. We welcome all applicants and strive for diversity. We have a clear management philosophy, and just like us you believe that through collaboration and openness we develop as individuals and as a company. We see all employees, regardless of position, as leaders when we approach the challenges that the world - and we - face. Höganäs ambition is to lead the transformation to better meet the needs of tomorrow and become the preferred supplier of sustainable metal powder on a global scale - join us in our journey of sustainable change and towards net-zero climate emissions**.**

More about Höganäs

Höganäs is the world leader in the market for metal powders, with a yearly capacity of 500,000 tons. Höganäs vision is to inspire the industry to make more with less, and its ambition is to be the preferred supplier of sustainable metal powders. In close cooperation with customers, Höganäs develops tomorrow's solutions for automotive components, electrical motors, brazing, surface coating, and additive manufacturing. Höganäs operates 17 production centres across the globe and has a workforce of 2,400 employees. The turnover for 2023 was 1.2 billion SEK. Höganäs, which was founded in 1797, is owned by Lindéngruppen and Wallenberg owned FAM.

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**Contact person**

**Christian Vanden Buverie**
- Human Resources Manager
+32 68266523
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