About Umicore
Reducing harmful vehicle emissions. Giving new life to used metals. Powering the cars of the future. As a global materials and technology group, we apply our specialist knowledge to offer materials and solutions that are essential to everyday life. We aim to be a clear world leader in materials for clean mobility and recycling and have turned our sustainability approach into an even greater competitive advantage. With ambitions like this, imagine what you could do?
About Support Functions
A global organisation. It’s not just those in our industrial sites and technical centres that are vital to Umicore’s growth. Across our support functions we ensure that we continue to grow and evolve – whether it’s by making sure our decisions are commercially viable, enhancing our reputation, building new customer relationships or finding the right people who can build on what we’ve already achieved. The variety of our work means we cannot stand still. We need to find new ways to do things, discover new solutions and develop new ideas. Which is where you come in.
About The Role
We are currently looking for a Consolidation & IFRS manager to join our Finance department in Brussels, Belgium. Reporting to the Senior Consolidation Manager you apply your expertise in accounting, consolidation techniques and IFRS to autonomously manage a set of consolidation tasks required for the Group monthly financial reporting, ad-hoc IFRS analysis as well as for the externally published financial statements. You act as a key player of the Consolidation team for the monthly closing processes in compliance with IFRS.
Responsibilities:
- Take an active role in the consolidation process (equity reconciliation, consolidation elimination entries, consolidation accounting entries,…)
- Perform the needed controls on the consolidation packages entering the system
- Provide assistance to remote sites as needed
- Assist in half-yearly consolidation process in order to prepare financial statements based on the consolidated values
- Act as a coordinator with the tax department, reflect with them on an optimal tax reporting in compliance with new tax legislation
- Provide ad hoc financial analysis according to management requests
- Act in the digitalization/automation roadmap by being a key element in the deployment of new consolidation tools
- Ensure the inclusion of the new subsidiaries into the consolidation system
- Ensure integration of the new entities into the intercompany scope
- Provide training to new people
- Ensuring the accounting, consolidation and financial reporting is in accordance with IFRS.
- Assist in IFRS analysis and business partnering for contemplated transactions to assess their potential impact of Group accounts
- Ensure SAP accounts structure of the group companies are in line with the Group chart of accounts
Who we are looking for
Requirements:
- 5+ years of financial experience in Consolidation, accounting or external audit with IFRS experience
- Master’s degree in Economics or finance or equivalent by experience;
- Good technical background in accounting, IFRS, consolidation and tax
- Fluency in English (both written and spoken), any additional European languages are a plus
- Able to work in a highly IS system driven environment : Consolidation and Reporting tools, office tools, SharePoint, disclosure management solution; knowledge of ERP systems such as SAP
- Ability to plan, prioritize and manage several tasks effectively
- Positive mindset and strong team spirit
- Stress resistance, accuracy and pro-active approach
- Good communication including communication of technical or financial information to a non-technical audience in a concise way
- Innovate mindset with openness to changes and to improvements
What we offer
We aim to lead the way. Not just for our customers, but for our employees too. That is why we strive to create a collaborative environment in which we can all succeed, and a culture through which we can all share ideas, develop our expertise and advance our careers. We engage in building an inclusive work culture that offers equal opportunities for all employees irrespective of their diverse backgrounds. As you would expect from a world-leading organisation, we will also reward your contribution with a competitive salary and benefits. With all this and more, imagine what you could do?
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