Statutory Accountant Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Statutory Accountant to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Key point of contact for country tax centre staff;
- Country specific statutory and statistical reporting;
- Ownership of the audit relationship and liaise directly with the audit team and head office finance team for audit queries;
- Audit liaison including preparation of audit deliverables and point of contact during audit for queries;
- Maintain local ledgers and posting of local statutory adjustments;
- US tax reporting to US for actual and plan data;
- Potential to be SAP Power User;
- Working with country tax centres on local tax returns;
- Preparation of statutory financial statements for Head Office;
- Regular US GAAP to local GAAP ledger reconciliation;
- Quarterly US GAAP tax calculation for US reporting;
- Involvement in projects and process improvements;
- Preparation of other supporting schedules as required by the auditors.
Requirements:
- Can work to tight deadlines and has experience working with external auditors;
- Experience producing accounts under FRS102;
- Qualified Accountant – ACA, ACCA ACMA or equivalent ideally with practice experience;
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA preferred);
- Understanding of US GAAP, IFRS and other European GAAPs would be an advantage;
- Good understanding of statutory and tax accounting;
- Strong systems including SAP – good level and ideally OneSource;
- Independently proactive – able to multitask and is a strong team player.