We Do Group
Senior Financial Accountant
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SENIOR FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT - MANUFACTURING
REMOTE (UK) - OCCASIONAL TRAVEL TO WEST SUSSEX - PERMANENT - OWNERSHIP OF GERMAN LOCAL GAAP AND TAX FOR A US-HEADQUARTERED GROUP
£80,000 - £90,000
Are you a senior technical accountant who wants to own a country rather than assist on one? Do you thrive where German statutory reporting, tax and audit all sit with you?
We Do Group are supporting a US-headquartered engineering and manufacturing group, hiring a Senior Financial Accountant to take full accountability for local GAAP and tax reporting across its German entities.
This is the senior technical seat for Germany. Everything statutory runs through you: the HGB accounts, the tax filings, the audit, and the outsourced providers who do a chunk of the groundwork. You'll be the finance representative for the German sites when someone needs to be there in person, and the person Group leans on when a change in German rules lands on the reporting.
There's also a broader piece here. The European finance function is being tightened up, and you'll have a real say in how the German end of it works.
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WISH LIST
- Qualified Accountant with deep HGB knowledge and the confidence to sign off on judgements
- Experience running local statutory reporting inside a US or international group, including the local GAAP bridge
- Fluent German and English, and the standing to hold your own with auditors, advisers and non-finance managers
THE ROLE
- Take ultimate accountability for German local GAAP and tax reporting across the assigned entities
- Sign off the HGB financial statements and supporting analysis in line with the group timetable
- Own the quarterly local GAAP bridge, reviewing and approving before it goes to Group
- Act as the primary interface for external audit, managing the process so it lands with minimum disruption elsewhere
- Review all statutory and tax filings before director approval, so nothing goes out half-finished
- Oversee VAT, corporation tax, Intrastat and EC Sales reporting across the German entities
- Make sure transfer pricing arrangements are properly reflected in the accounting
- Hold the outsourced service providers to quality, budget and deadline
- Be the finance representative across the German sites where a physical presence is needed
- Brief the Senior Manager and Group on upcoming changes in German tax and accounting rules
- Support Group Tax on international projects and the parent company return
- Lead process alignment across Europe, building a more consistent and better controlled finance function
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YOUR PROFILE
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CA, CIMA or German equivalent)
- Effective communicator - written & verbal
- Good working knowledge of MS Excel
- Strong working knowledge of German tax and internal control environments, SOX exposure advantageous
- Experience managing outsourced providers or a small local team
SALARY & BENEFITS
- £80,000 - £90,000
- Permanent
- Remote working, with occasional travel to the West Sussex office
- Domestic and international travel to German sites as the role requires
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