Senior GL Accountant

Business Company: OMRON Headquarters (HQ)

Location:

Hoofddorp, NL

Employment Type:

Permanent

Sr. GL Accountant

Are you an experienced Accountant? Do you like to work in a dynamic and multicultural environment? Then this might be a role for you!

Omron Corporation (Omron) established in 1933, is a leading, innovative multinational with more than 28,000 employees in 44 countries. Omron is specialized in the development, production, distribution, marketing and sales of products and services in a variety of industries, including automation, electronic components and healthcare.

OMRON is now seeking a highly motivated Sr. GL Accountant to join our Finance & Accounting Team.

OMRON´s EMEA Finance & Accounting team is located at its European Headquarters in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands. A dedicated team supports four different Omron businesses consisting of more than 40 entities and branches in Europe, The Middle East, and Africa.

To ensure success as a Sr. GL Accountant, you should demonstrate a sound knowledge of best practices in general ledger accounting and experience in a similar role. A top-class GL accountant, you are someone whose accounting expertise results in accurate financial planning and regulatory compliance.

• Performing month-end close activities for multiple entities
• Collaborating with internal departments to gather, analyze, and interpret relevant financial information.
• Performing account analysis to ensure that journal entries and balances are correct.
• Gathering supporting documentation and performing recordkeeping.
• Reconciliation, review, and maintenance of all balances in the entity trial balance - In depth knowledge of the balances included in the trial balance and First point of contact for questions on balances
• Maintain general ledger accounts and perform month end balance sheet reconciliations
• Ensuring that financial information complies with professional and regulatory standards
• Keeping abreast of regulatory requirements and best practices in accounting.
• Responsible for ensuring the fixed asset register and GL accountant is up to date (including verification of assets).
• Responsibility to identify, flag issues and ensure actions are being taken to solve the problem either by solving the issue yourself or by prompting a different department in the company.

• Scheduling and presenting pre-close meetings for all entities
• Preparing and reviewing (self-review) monthly/quarterly/ annual reporting packs before submission for approval
• Preparing the deviation file for all respective entities for the BS (Month-to-month, prior year)
• Understanding of the movements/fluxes on the P&L (Month-to-month, prior year)
• Completing the monthly closing checklist and ensuring proper sign off my respective persons
• Ensuring all manual journal entries have proper support and is signed off by yourself and approver.
• Explaining and actively solving IC differences in the financial data in collaboration with AOC
• Participating the closing meetings held by the Business companies.

• Support the Group financial controller in providing explanations and documents for external and internal audits.
• Support the Compliance managers in providing explanations and documents for external and internal audits.
• Responsible for ensuring the proper execution of JSOX controls

• Bachelor´s Degree of Commerce or Accounting or equivalent.

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in hands-on accounting role including month-end procedures.
• Experience in a shared service environment.
• Strong excel, word and power point skills.
• Knowledge of monthly and annual general ledger accounting and closing processes.
• Knowledge and application of accounting guidelines (US-GAAP, Dutch GAAP, J-SOX and IFRS).
• Knowledge of ERP systems and Accounting Software packages, preferably JDE and SAP4
  
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• Ability to work in a multicultural environment.
• Ability to participate in group meetings.
• Excellent analytical, time management, reporting, communication, interpersonal, problem-solving and administrative…