General Accountant

Job description

The key duties of the position are : 

·  Manage the quarterly close entries
·  Ensure that General accounting transactions are booked in a timely manner
·  Clear items from bank reconciliations

Successful candidate will need:

·  2/3 years Experience in Accounting and / or accounting background
·  Insurance skills are a plus and more generally, background in a global, complex insurance environment
·  Flexible and open to change
·  Experience in working in a multi-cultural environment with teams from various locations
·  Customer and services oriented, problems solving, pragmatic, and constructive
·  Experience of a flexible approach to managing and prioritizing a high workload and multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines, and to push back when necessary
·  Proactive communicator (oral and written) with highly effective influencing, negotiating, and motivational skills
·  Unquestionable integrity
·  Fluency in French and English

Required Education 

Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, or accounting 

Operational activities:

General accounting

·  Ensure compliance with Group and local standards for its domain
·  Process dailies and closing works and coordinate actions with other departments
·  Justify the general accounts within its scope
·  Manage the Internal Controls for balance sheet items within it’s scope
·  Manage the follow-up of auditors' requests

Quarterly closing

·  Preparation & booking of the quarterly closing entries 
·  Carry out and ensure the control of the quarterly closing schedule in collaboration with the Finance teams such as Reporting/Closing, Expenses Accounting and Cost Controlling teams
·  Ensure justification of accounts

Cash accounting

·  Monitor and control the clearing of Bank reconciliation accounts
·  Report settlement incidents to Departments concerned, and manage their resolution with BUs (Business Unit), Reporting/closing and Treasury Teams

Quality of service provision

·  Build strong expertise and working relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure quality of services delivered to Legal entities and Clients. 
·  Support and work closely with other accounting heads and actively participate in communities, working in an open and collaborative manner with all Accountants and other stakeholders. 
·  Reinforce a client focused mindset as more services are being pooled to maximize the satisfaction of internal clients.