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Join Our Finance Team in Brussels
Are you a detail-driven finance professional with a passion for accuracy and integrity? Edelman Brussels is looking for a talented Accountant / Senior Accountant to play a key role within our dynamic Finance Team. Reporting directly to the Finance Director, you’ll oversee general accounting and financial reporting for our Belgian entities (Edelman and A&R), ensuring full compliance with both US GAAP and Belgian GAAP standards. In this pivotal role, you’ll uphold Edelman’s high standards of quality, ethics, and professionalism—while embracing our core values of integrity, respect, entrepreneurial spirit, and mutual benefit.
Responsibilities include:
Accounting:
- Supervision of all accounting processes such as:
- Prepare all documents to be processed by shared services.
- Prepare and/or process manual journals.
- Review and approve payments of supplier’s invoices and expenses notes.
- Review regularly accruals to ensure full compliance with the Group policy.
- Follow-up on accounts payables.
- Act as expenses notes auditor.
- Review and follow-up of Interco.
- Work closely with the Business Manager for costs incurred on behalf of clients.
Closing & Reporting:
- Support to the Finance Director during month end process:
- Review actuals costs and compare with latest forecast.
- Prepare the different Balance Sheet and P&L reports and analysis to be discussed with the FD before closing the month.
- Provide commentaries on variances between actuals & forecasts.
- Prepare the reconciliation of the balance sheets accounts.
- Prepare annual statutory accounts and the related reconciliations to US GAAP each year (the “Stat to GAAP rec”)
Taxes:
- Supervision of all taxes/fiscal processes such as:
- Prepare and send the monthly VAT declarations.
- Prepare and send the annual client listing.
- Prepare and propose the schedule for the prepaid taxes.
- Prepare and send the Income Tax declaration (ISOC).
- Prepare the calculation related to transfer pricing.
- Complete tax payable roll-forward schedules and tax fee forecast.
Other:
- Provide- finance support & ad-hoc training to all staff.
- Ensure proper transition to the new ERP software.
- Ad-Hoc project as required by Belgium and Region Finance Leadership
Preferred knowledge & experience:
- Bachelor’s in accounting (Belgian GAAP)
- Excellent knowledge of Belgian VAT and Belgian fiscality
- Fluent in English and French.
- Experience of accounting/financial management in the service industry.
- Public relations/Marketing Communications industry experience is preferred.
- Qualified candidates are client service oriented and possess strong financial analysis and communication skills.
- Team player attitude & Strong work ethic.
- Qualified candidates demonstrate professional behavior and pursuit of excellence in all endeavors.
- Problems solver.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft office including Outlook, Word, Excel & Powerpoint.