Accounting Manager

over 20 years of proven project and professional experience as a finance and accounting manager

profound know-how in accounting according to HGB, UGB, IFRS, US-GAAP & UK-GAAP

deep knowledge in various ERP systems (including SAP & Navision)

strong analytical skills and a structured way of working

Analyze Finance Processes

Build up complete Balance Sheet Clean-up

Implement Balance Sheets reconciliations

Stabilize and implement accounting procedures

Secure & clean Master Data for transfer of the new FIN

System in general and sub ledger

Develop accounting system (NAVISION), report generation

Execute all relevant entries in the accounting system for all entities

Develop cash-flow for the complete group

Develop month, quarter and year end closing for legal entities

Posting of Factoring settlements

Bank postings for all legal entities

Responsible for statutory accounts

Develop month, quarter and year end

Develop cash-flow incl. steering of all supplier and vendor payments and set up a group refunding process to secure liquidity

Convert, post and reconcile salary file

Develop and send statistical statutory document to local authorities

Develop closing entries

Reconciliation of accounts from Navision and convert to Excel

Analyze multiple unreconciled migrations and report their financial impact to executive management

Analyze, develop and implement an interface strategy for the complete finance department with all stakeholders

Establishing procedures for creating statutory accounts

Execute month, quarter and year end closing reports according to IFRS and JGAAP

Development of all relevant month end closing entries, such as accruals and prepayments, and establishing accrual mirroring processes

Preparing IFRS adjustments and constructing a comprehensive work file to compute IFRS 16 adjustments for the specified legal entity

Responsible for ARIBA system and conduct employee training

Tracking of the account triggered by Ariba for uninvoiced goods receipts in SAP and reconciliation of this account

Responsible for month, quarter and year end closing reports and analytical packages according to USGAAP

Implementation of a fast closure

Central contact for Group's outsourced DACH topics

Responsible for all DACH legal entities for a proper and correct profit center accounting in the balance sheet