International Accountant

Job description

HERE is a leader in navigation, mapping and location experiences. We combine highly accurate and fresh maps with cloud technology to enable rich, real-time location experiences in a broad range of connected devices – from smartphones and tablets to wearables and vehicles. Built on 30 years of experience in cartography and drawing on more than 80,000 sources of data, HERE offers "Maps for Life" for more than 190 countries, voice guided navigation in 95 countries in more than 50 languages and live traffic information for 34 countries. To learn more about HERE, including our work in the areas of connected and autonomous driving, visit http://360.here.com or https://company.here.com/here/

The Accountant is part of an International Accounting team (8 people), responsible for the accounting and reporting of 33 foreign HERE EMEA subsidiaries.

Within this team the accountant will be held responsible for the accounting of assigned subsidiaries and more specific:

·  General Ledger accounting: Overall GL responsibility of the accounting of assigned subsidiaries, whereby order management, revenue and AP is being taken care of by the Shared Service center in Veldhoven. Make sure that GL is up to date and all account values are supported by either sub administrations or by authorized documents and reconciliations.
· Ensure payments of suppliers and taxes are being made on time by the Shared Service Center in the Netherlands.
·  Payroll: Implement and check all salary changes and bonus payments for processing through payroll via outsourced payroll administration. Reconcile output payroll administration and make journal entries in the ERP system PeopleSoft.
·  Taxes : Administer and co-ordinate completions of all monthly, quarterly and annual statutory tax returns like VAT and corporate tax.
·  Social Taxes : Administer and co-ordinate completion of all social security related taxes and filings.
·  Statutory Accounting : Ensure local annual accounts are being prepared by local auditor and filed on time
·  Other tasks of the team are:
·  Monthly review of financial reports small subs: Review of Balance Sheet, P&L and other reports for assigned subsidiaries
·  Communication with accounting agencies : Communicate procedures, processes and adjustments to financial numbers to the accounting firms responsible for the assigned subsidiaries
·  Implement new established accounting procedures by EU HQ and new PeopleSoft functionality.
· Any other financial or statutory functions as required or requested by Management.

Desired profile

· Educational level: HEAO Business Administration / Accountancy

· 3-5 years of working experience in accounting (bookkeeping).

· Good knowledge of Dutch and English (write and speak)

· Experience with accounting software programs or ERP systems (PeopleSoft, SAP etc.) is an advantage

· Microsoft Office skills (Excel, Word, Outlook)

· Good communication skills, pro-activeness and determination, flexibility and team spirit, independent