LHH supports a multinational company operating in the contract services sector in the search for a Reporting & Consolidation Expert.
Responsibilities The main areas of responsibility can be generically referred to these activities: - Preparing the consolidated financial statements of the Group within Italy in accordance with group accounting standards.
- Reviewing Group monthly reporting from the various subsidiaries with the support of our Group ERP (SAP), ensuring correctness and reliability of accounting data.
- Preparing additional disclosures for statutory group reporting - Performing various reconciliation regarding both P&L and BS for M/E closing and reporting purposes.
- Coordinating the accounting team of the subsidiaries to ensure that the reporting package is delivered in a timely manner and meet all financial reporting requirements.
- Proactively supporting local finance teams during the monthly close process to ensure actual submissions are completed on a timely basis.
- Leading the intercompany and elimination processes for the group (relating to the P&L and balance sheet, including equity pick-up).
Coordinating and coaching colleagues, e.g., in preparing intercompany reconciliations and managing intercompany transactions.
- Supporting the Controlling teams and the business Unit Managers in the budgeting process (e.g., calculation of IFRS adjustments & other accounting impacts).
- Leading the corporate calendar maintenance and tracking local and global adherence to timelines.
- Maintaining of the legal hierarchies, account structure and other metrics/ dimensions of the data model within the consolidation and reporting system to accommodate management needs and external reporting requirements.
- Analyzing data included in the financial statements and related variance analysis.
- Supporting external auditors in their audit activities.
- Supporting subsidiary compliance with adoption of accounting policies and post-acquisition accounting adjustments (acquisition, merger, restructuring) within the scope of the job.
Your Profile Applicants with the following requirements will be considered: - Degree in Economics - Some years work experience in financial reporting and consolidation in international context - Perfect understanding of IFRS rules - Experience with consolidation tools (BFC is a plus) and appetence for IT tools.
- Client oriented, autonomous, proactive and pragmatic - Excellent interpersonal skills - Ability to work on different tasks concurrently, often with tight deadlines.
- Act independently to try to solve problems, makes proposals.
- Professional English is a must (French or German is a plus.
Location: Milan Salary Package: 60.000€ - 70.000€.
