Senior SSC GL Accountant
About this role
Main Accountabilities
As Senior GL Accountant you will work from the Beirut office and take on the senior role within the GL department reporting to the Group Reporting Manager. In this role you will provide support to the Finance Shared Service team and be responsible for the accounting from A to Y of more than 30 legal entities within the EMEA Region.
This is a hands-on role in which you will perform the following accountabilities:
- Review journal entries on a timely basis and in accordance with our accounting guidelines;
- Record and review the necessary provisions and accruals;
- Review FX revaluations for vendors, customers, banks and general ledger account entries
- Review FA depreciation
- Review bank reconciliations for our subsidiaries;
- Review vendor/customer balance reconciliations;
- Review intercompany transactions per company policy, included intercompany loans;
- Review intercompany reconciliations and perform root cause analysis;
- Monthly review and reconciliations of other balance sheet accounts, such as inventory, goods received not invoiced, fixed assets, …
- Review the monthly and yearly closing and monitor the monthly closing process;
- Contact local finance teams to resolve issues and discuss monthly closing;
- Ensure that monthly team KPI’s are met and improved to ensure a continuous improvement in our business processes;
- Ensure all business policies and processes are followed to comply with internal controls, segregation of duties, delegation of authority;
- Assist in continuously improving our processes and in optimising our ERP system
- Assist local finance teams when migrating to D365 and support them in testing the set-up of the processes and the resulting reporting;
- Assist in implementing new tools to further automate our accounting processes;
- Assist in reporting on compliance with Group Rules
- Assist in audit processes;
- Any ad hoc project or process request.
Company at a glance
As a leading global innovation service provider in the specialty chemicals and food ingredients industry, we are committed to creating value for principals and customers whilst providing a great work environment and career opportunities.
Azelis has 4,200+ employees across 65 countries worldwide. We work with around 2,800 principals to provide a diverse range of innovative products/services to 63,000+ customers.
Our industry-dedicated sales teams have specialist product and application knowledge, combined with business know-how, enabling us to add value in all business relationships.
We’re always looking to add new talent to our team and encourage and support the personal and professional growth of all employees.
Specialties include
Life Sciences: Personal Care, Home Care & Industrial Cleaning, Pharma & Healthcare, Food & Nutrition, Animal Nutrition, Agricultural & Environmental
Industrial Chemicals: CASE, Electronics, Essential Chemicals, Fine Chemicals, Advanced Materials & Additives, Chemicals, Lubricants & Metal Working Fluids, Other Applications, Textiles, Leather & Paper
At Azelis, our partnerships with customers and principals remain at the heart of our activities. As a leading global innovation service provider, our entrepreneurial approach to doing business is reflected in our can-do attitude.
Across our network of more than 70 application laboratories, our award-winning staff help develop formulations and provide technical guidance along the customers’ product development process. We combine a global market reach with a local footprint to offer a reliable, integrated and unique digital service to customers and attractive business opportunities to principals.
Striving to create a positive impact on the environment and communities around the world, we are top-industry-rated by Sustainalytics. Azelis is a leader in sustainability.
We aim to provide effective, sustainable, and reliable solutions. Our business is your business.
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