General Accounting

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**JOB DESCRIPTION**

As General Accountant & HR Specialist, you will join the **Benelux Finance Team**, a human-sized organization, and support our business handled through 2 different legal entities (Belgium and Netherlands).
Under the direct responsibility of our Benelux Finance Manager, you’ll be in charge of HR administration & office administration, Payroll preparation & booking, Accounts Payable tasks (coding, payment approval, liaison with suppliers when needed), and will participate to Monthly closing and reporting, Statutory and Management.

You will work closely with the Finance, HR, Shared Services center and Operational teams to support our projects & goals.

**Payroll Accounting**
- Payroll (in coordination with our Payroll Providers and Accounting Shared Services):

- Monthly and yearly management of the externalized payroll in Belgium and Netherlands.
- Preparation of all accounting journal entries linked to the monthly payroll and its linked accruals (Bonus, Vacations, etc )
- Management of all the required payments to the payroll providers, the Social Security, Health insurance,
- Monthly and yearly reconciliation payroll vs accounting, and periodic review/justification of Balance Sheet accounts of the 2 legal entities

**HR administration**
- HR administration (in coordination with our HR shared services for some of the tasks and under the Regional HR Manager):

- Coordination of the welcome of the newcomers, the exit of the leavers.
- Administration of employees files (labour contracts, documents linked to employees,)
- Follow up of the Paid vacation, illness, and other absences.
- Administrator for our travel expense system, report check.
- HR reporting (under the monitoring of our HR KPIs: absenteeism, turnover ):

- Prepare HSE (Health & Safety for Employees) yearly group reporting.

**Finance Accounting**

Accounts Payable - “AP’
- Be the local coordinator / first point of contact for our Suppliers, our Accounting Shared Services based in Sofia and our local staff.
- Initiate the process related to Supplier creation / modification request.
- Support administrative tasks and physical flows within the Business Unit (i.e., physical invoices, etc.)
- Cash management
- Be the local coordinator / first point of contact for our Banks, our Accounting Shared Services based in Sofia and our local staff.
- Manage Advance payment to suppliers, P-Cards to employees,

General Ledger - “GL”
- Be the local coordinator / first point of contact for our Accounting Shared Services based in Sofia and our local staff.
- Fill in assets creation form and review Fixed Assets data consistency and prepare related submission and reporting on it.
- Collect new rental contracts, update existing one and transmit information to GBS to meet the IFRS 16 requirements.
- Review intercompany costs to recharge, reconciliate them and transmit Journal Entries.
- Legal requirements and local specific coordination of VAT and related declaration/reporting with our external partner and our Accounting Shared Service.
- Reconciliation of local statutory accounts & IFRS for the 2 legal entities with Group Reporting tools (Hyperion), and assist during the annual Statutory Audit

**QUALIFICATIONS**
- Minimum 3 years of experience in supporting Finance or Payroll Accounting activities
- Degree in Finance/Accounting or General Management
- English required, Dutch is a strong plus
- Good knowledge of Excel and the advance functions - PowerBI would be a plus
- ERP previous experience (JDEdwards would be a plus)
- Experience in Payroll accounting is preferred
- Open-mindset, teamwork, rigor, self-organization, reliability are the main seek soft skills

BIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly commit to hiring people with different backgrounds and experiences to help us build better products, make better decisions, and better serve our customers. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status, or similar characteristics. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.