Junior Financial Accountant

Do you want to work in a motivating, supportive environment where you help patients across the world get access to life‑saving medicine? If so, we want to hear from you.

Korn Ferry is delighted to partner with Clinigen, as they embark on a large‑scale programme of global growth.

We are looking to recruit a Finance Accountant to support Clinigen’s Belgian based operations.

Reporting to the Financial controller, the Finance Accountant is a key role within the group finance team. You’ll have responsibility for all matters relating to Management Accounting: accounting and reporting, internal customer support, you’ll also be responsible for the preparation and of the month end and year end close. This is a hybrid role, with 3 days per week spent in the Mont-Saint Guibert office.

Ways to add value:

As Finance Accountant you’ll be responsible for:

• Supporting external audits and acting as the key contact for auditors.
• Preparing audit schedules and year-end statutory accounts.
• Ensuring compliance with local GAAP, IFRS, or other statutory reporting requirements.
• Coordinating audit timelines and resolving audit queries efficiently.
• Performing month end for all aspects of the management accounts
• Ensuring financial processing and authorisation procedures are applied in accordance with approved procedures
• Assisting in the preparation of statutory financial statements for relevant entity in accordance with Local Accounting Standards
• Preparing tax related declarations e.g. VAT, Intrastat and Corporate tax
• Supporting initiatives to obtain tax subsidies

About You:

• Degree educated in a related subject
• Demonstrable Audit experience
• Successful track record gained in a similar environment
• Knowledge of in-house finance processes and practices advantageous
• Advanced Excel
• Business level English & French
• Ability to understand and communicate financial matters relating to the Business Units
• Knowledge of IFRS
• Strategic thinker, with the ability to define objectives and develop frameworks
• Ability to work both collaboratively as part of a global team, in an ambiguous, constantly changing environment

Clinigen is a rapidly growing global specialty pharmaceutical and services company with a unique combination of businesses, operating in complex global regulatory environments, to ensure that vital medicines are delivered, securely, on time, and wherever they are needed in the world.