Accountant French

• Multicultural, financially strong and growing US Tech company|Offices located in Barcelona

Technology semiconductor solutions multinational company. Head office in USA and EMEA HQ located in Barcelona.

As a Regional EMEA Accountant, you will have the following tasks :

• Provide effective delivery of the end-to-end operational accounting process and activities


• Deliver record-to-report and general ledger processes (e.g., journal entries / accruals, month end closing) for EMEA's Entities


• Support EMEA region's Acquire-to-Retire process including accounting for fixed assets


• Provide standard performance reporting for the EMEA accounting team


• Provide service management and governance for the EMEA accounting team


• Responsible for upholding quality and standardized service delivery to global standards


• Support client facing and internal operational accounting services- liaison for regional accounting with the corporate accounting team


• Lead financial statement audit support for US GAAP and statutory


• Provide EMEA Payroll process support- liaison with region's payroll providers


• Maintain client rules on International Payroll matrix and provide gatekeeper support to payroll providers including file preparation and delivery


• Provide EMEA expertise to ensure accurate US GAAP and statutory ledgers


• Executes accounting procedures for EMEA team


• Ensure compliance with the financial procedures of the organization


• Work with confidential data, which, if disclosed, might have significant internal effect or minor external effect


• Drive consistency in period-end close activities and account reconciliation processes supporting improved efficiencies/compliance

• Competitive salary


• Bonus scheme


• This position is a hybrid role : 3 days office/ 2 days from home

Experience required :

• Extensive proven experience in delivering regional EMEA accounting activities


• Demonstrated ability to manage work effectively


• Demonstrated ability to organize, schedule and successfully manage multiple priorities


• Experience in SAP preferred Bachelor's degree in accounting.


• Three to five years of US GAAP accounting experience CPA or Chartered


• Fluency both written and spoken in French, English and Spanish.

Skills and personal attributes:

• Project Management: Develops work plans, identifies data needs, and successfully interprets analytic insights


• Business & Strategic Acumen: Understands the company's blueprint, business processes and the Company's key strategies


• Financial Statement Acumen: Can create core financial statements and navigate footnote disclosures to perform analysis and reach basic conclusions.


• Performance Reporting & Analysis: Creates and provides robust performance reporting metrics and analysis


• Cost Productivity Management: Understands and applies variable and fixed cost drivers to develop plant manufacturing expense budgets


• Controls, Compliance & Risk: Identifies potential threats/risks to achievement of control and compliance objectives and designs basic control processes


• Planning & Forecasting: Basic understanding of planning and forecasting purpose