Chief Accountant

For our new company we are looking for a strong professional who will be responsible for a 360 view of the financial activities of the country, starting with accounting and expanding to all fields of finance. The position reports to a Finance manager based in the Italy, with a dotted line to the country manager within the country. The geographic scope of the job covers Italy.

Responsibilities:-

• Responsible for complete and accurate financial statements (P&L and Balance Sheet)
  
• Provide monthly balance sheet reconciliations
  
• Support the annual conversion of US GAAP accounting to ensure local statutory compliance.
  
• V.A.T reporting and filing
  
• US GAAP and Statutory GAAP reconciliation
  
• Posts the statutory entries into the GL
  
• Annual Report preparation
  
• E&Y audit preparation
  
• CIT return preparation
  
• Implement and follow up on Finance Policies and Procedures
  

• Verify and code the supplier invoices
  
• Monitor the payment process (payment takes place in the USA)
  
• Single Point of contact for communication with the Headquarter finance team (in Buffalo USA) to resolve any transactional issues or reconciliation gaps
  

• Support the country managers on ad-hoc financial requests
  
• Act as a business partner to the operations management team
  

• Degree in accounting (D.E.C.F level required)
  

• Minimum 6 years work experience in accounting
  
• Experience in VAT
  
• Experience in Annual report preparation
  
• Experience in audit
  

• Good communication skills including local and English language proficiency;
  
• Strong ability to work independently
  
• Willing and capable to take initiatives, positive attitude
  

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