Accounting Analyst

**Who are we?**

This position is based in our Global Business Services (GBS) in Porto. Our 300+ employees provide services within areas such as HR, Procurement, Finance and IT across the world.

Our vision is to deliver sustainable value with standard, consistent, digitally enhanced processes. To achieve this, we are seeking to attract highly motivated and skilled professionals. In return we offer a corporate culture which champions professional development, embraces and leads change, creates ingenious solutions for our customers and encourages collaboration.

**What’s the role about?**

The Accounting Analyst role will be part of the General Accounting Team, reporting directly to the Chief Accountant.

This role will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the General Ledger, creating the trial balance, and drafting financial statements. This includes supervising and delivering activities for month-end, calculating and posting journals (including accruals), GL account reconciliations, reviewing and analyzing the General Ledger/trial balance, and working with local Finance teams to identify adjustments.

**What you'll do?**

The Accounting Analyst will be required to execute the following responsibilities:

- Perform general accounting support and month end
- Review and analyze information from the general ledger and other accounting records to ensure accuracy and completeness, and take corrective action, as appropriate
- Address audit enquiries / investigation
- Create trial balance and draft financial statements
- Supervise the delivery of daily operational accounting tasks and the processing journal entries
- Ensure the execution of period-end accounting entries by posting manual journal entries and processing recharges (e.g., accruals, currency conversions, etc.)
- Oversee the postings of journals and ensure that processes are correctly followed
- Oversee the reconciliation of General Ledger / balance sheet accounts
- Support in the production of balance sheets, income statements and other financial statements according to legal and company accounting and financial guidelines
- Oversee the preparation of month-end and year-end close process
- Be proactive in the provision of feedback and the delivery of ideas to develop and improve solutions
- Perform other reasonable duties within the Record-to-Report pillar as required

**What are we looking for?**

For this role, we are looking for a person having the following skills and experience:

- BSc/BA in accounting, finance or relevant field
- Proven experience as an accountant
- Good understanding of accounting and financial reporting principles and practices
- Strong financial, analytical, communication and project management skills
- Ability to develop, motivate and lead diverse teams and managing workload efficiently across resources
- Good analytical skills and detail orientated
- Strong organisation and time management
- Ability to work unsupervised and deliver high quality work to tight deadlines
- Knowledge of ERP systems, processes and workflow technology
- Operated in complex environment with the same size and scale
- Experience from working in a similar industry
- Fluency in English

**What do we offer?**
- Attractive salary package inc. health insurance and meal allowance
- Truly multinational environment (23 nationalities, 12 languages)
- Modern office facilities (social, dining, and relaxing areas)
- Opportunities to develop, grow and progress
- Hybrid working model
- Free access to LinkedIn learning
- Birthday off and extra days of vacation
- Various discounts across retailers and services