Senior Accounting Manager

On behalf of our client, an international healthcare company based in Switzerland, Swisslinx is looking for an Senior Accounting Manager. This is a contract for initially 6 months with a high chance after to become a permanent role. The position will deal with a broad range of accounting and controlling topics, and FICO projects management for all entities under company's responsibility. Candidates must bring strong US GAAP and local GAAP knowledge combined with a strong knowledge of SAP S/4 Hana.

- Start date: June 2023, negotiable
- Duration: 6 months
- Extension: highly possible as well as internalization
- Workload: 100%
- Mostly remote work (based in Switzerland)

Your mission:

- Coordinate the accounting process and lead activities for all the European (non-Swiss) entities and New Markets jointly with company's 3rd party service providers. This includes (but is not limited to) :
- Ensure GL accuracy and completeness
- Support the monthly financial close process, ensuring all transactions are properly recorded, reviewing journal entries, account balance reconciliations and report preparation
- Ensure all payroll data prepared by outsourcing partner/Payroll Teams are accurately booked in SAP
- Oversee the reconciliation between our US GAAP and Local GAAP ledgers, and understand the statutory adjustments and other local requirements that lead to our final Statutory Financial Statement
- Stay tuned with all changes ongoing in the organization, and provide appropriate guidance to Business and other stakeholders on accounting processes and best practices
- Lead Finance Projects to support company's initiatives in all our EU and New Markets entities, such as:
- Lead the preparation of statutory accounts for all (non-Swiss) European and New Markets entities, ensuring appropriate communication and coordination of activities with Legal and Tax departments too
- Act as primary and main point of contact for auditors for all our non-Swiss entities
- Be the Finance representative for SOX compliance and management of material control audits for company's non-Swiss entities - ensure the execution of any related assigned SOX controls in a timely manner

Your profile:

- Accounting/Business/Finance Bachelor degree
- Minimum 8 years of experience in a multinational finance environment (Big 4 and/or healthcare experience a plus)
- Project Management and willingness to lead technical and complex accounting tasks, and support daily transactional and closing activities
- Experience in Team Management
- Desire to work in a fast paced, changing environment
- Excellent communication skills combined with cultural sensitivity
- Excellent spoken/written English - any other language is beneficial
- Knowledge of SAP S/4 Hana, Excel, Power BI, Concur, Workday
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