Senior Corporate Accountant (IFRS Specialist)

The Senior Corporate Accountant role is to manage the Company’s corporate group accounting activities, including amongst others the intercompany group accounting, consolidation and (external) IFRS financial reporting.

Accountabilities

General accountabilities:

1. Consolidation (including intercompany reconciliation accounting);
2. IFRS reporting (in close cooperation with the Accounting Manager);
3. Audits by external auditor (in close cooperation with the Accounting Manager); and
4. IFRS thought leader.

1. Consolidation

• Is accountable for monthly consolidation (in accordance with IFRS).

• Governs quality of underlying consolidation processes and internal controls thereof.

• Seeks continues improvements and efficiency gains for consolidation activities.

• Responsible for consolidation (reporting) software tooling.

2. IFRS accounting

• Is accountable for preparation of yearly / half-yearly IFRS statements including notes and internal controls thereof.

• Takes the lead in preparation of IFRS/accounting position papers (with support of external IFRS experts).

• Monitors compliance to IFRS regulations, prepares standard operating procedures if required (with support of external IFRS experts).

• Monitors and seeks pro-actively education on relevant IFRS regulations (with support of external IFRS experts).

• Responsible for IFRS software reporting tooling (e.g. Smartnotes) and formal reporting to government authorities thereof (e.g. xbrl format).

3. External audits

• Takes the lead in the preparation and execution of yearly / half-yearly audits by external auditor for the consolidated IFRS accounts.

• Seeks alignment with external auditor on new IFRS/accounting positions or updates thereof.

• Responsible together with the chief accountant for relationship management with external audit team.

4. IFRS thought leader

• Provides updates on new regulations to finance team

• Go-to person for legal and business development in contract discussions

• Leads company education beyond finance on specific business relevant IFRS topics

Other: acts as a sounding board for other members of the accounting team and supports Accounting Manager in ongoing education of accounting team, supports company in IFRS forecasting exercises.

Who are we looking for ?

• Qualified accountant (preferably holding a Master degree) or equivalent through experience and/or training.
• Excellent knowledge and post qualification of (IFRS and Belgian) accounting (e.g. IAB or BIBF) is required.
• Minimum 4 years of relevant accounting experience in an international and commercial business environment. Work experience within big 4 audit companies is a plus.
• Up to date knowledge of Belgian accountancy legislation as well as IFRS regulations and reporting requirements
• Financial audit framework
• Valuation concepts on how to value the different balance sheet items
• Fixed asset accounting
• Process of Consolidation
• Knowledge of the content of the balance sheet items
• Knowledge of the content of the contracts and accounting position papers
• Excellent numerical skills
• Strong knowledge on group consolidation activities
• Knowledge on internal control processes and frameworks
• Knowledge on executing formal audit processes
• Understanding of medical diagnostics industry
• Deadline conscious and highly meticulous
• Self-starter and proactive attitude (i.e. hands on personality)
• Flexible;
• Service and client oriented
• Quick learner and able to work autonomously
• Can work and deal with confidential information
• Thrives in an innovative and changing environment
• Languages : fluent in Dutch and English

Our offering

We offer you an exciting job in a fast growing international and innovative environment where you can work with top entrepreneurs in the biotech industry. You can be part of a very dynamic, young and growing team. You will have freedom to shape your work and shape your job where you deem it necessary: we value your input. Of course we offer you an appropriate compensation package which includes a Flexible Income Plan. We offer a lot of flexibility and attention to your wellbeing via a hybrid work regime.