Accountant

Job description | Accountant

Elicio is a major Belgian renewable energy company focused on the development, financing, construction and operation of wind energy power plants. The group’s activity covers mid-size to large-scale wind projects in Belgium, France, Serbia, Spain and Scotland. 

In support of its continued growth, Elicio is looking to recruit an additional Accountant to strengthen its Finance department.

Profile

The Accountant is responsible for the bookkeeping of a number of legal entities including the holding company. The bookkeeping function involves performing all administrative accounting tasks in order to maintain the accounting records in compliance with the applicable accounting regulation, the reporting/valuation rules and the internal control procedures set by Management and by the Board of Directors.

Main responsibilities include:

• Record incoming invoices in a timely manner and allocate them to the correct analytical accounting dimensions.
• Prepare & execute payment proposals, monitor purchase orders and approval flows
• Issue outgoing invoices in a timely manner after verifying revenue recognition milestones
• Process bank statements in a timely manner
• Properly record capital expenditures and apply depreciation rules to the different categories of assets
• Perform quarterly/yearly closing cycles
• Prepare periodic VAT applications
• Perform Payroll accounting tasks
• Prepare annual budgets
• Perform or support the annual account preparation    
• Prepare corporate income tax calculations & other recurring tax compliance matters (with support of a tax specialist)
• Provide info in case of tax inspections
• Interact with audit managers during audit process
• Support ad-hoc projects

Profile, education & experience

The Accountant has, at a minimum, a bachelor degree in accountancy with a minimum of 5 years recent relevant work experience.

Key competences and skills

• Diligent attitude
• Highly accurate
• Skilled at working with MS Office software (of which Outlook & Excel are the most important)
• Experience with Business Central is a plus
• Experienced at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Resilient to stress considering the reporting deadlines
• Committed to continuous professional development

Languages

• Fluent in Dutch and English
• Knowledge of French is appreciated

Offer & contact

Elicio NV offers you a dynamic and professional environment which encourages individual initiative and where you can work collaboratively with experienced finance experts. We provide a permanent contract in a booming sector with competitive compensation and a wide range of extralegal benefits.



Convince us of your experience, skills and your presentation skills by sending us a letter of application with your CV to hr@elicio.be with reference to the vacancy ‘Accountant’.