Accountant St George Barcelona

**Description**

**ISP IBERIA Role Profile**:
**Accountant**:
**location: onsite St george school, Barcelona**:
Purpose of Role

The Accountant is responsible for managing financial transactions, recording those into the financial software, ensuring compliance with accounting regulations and preparing financial reports.

The Accountant reports into the Head of Finance, St George Barcelona and is a member of the school team.

ISP Principles

Begin with our children and students. Our children and students are at the heart of what we do. Simply, their success is our success. Wellbeing and safety are both essential for learners and learning. Therefore, we are consistent in identifying potential safeguarding issues and acting and following up on all concerns appropriately.

Treat everyone with care and respect. We look after one another, embrace similarities and differences and promote the well-being of self and others.

Learn continuously. Getting better is what drives us. We positively engage with personal and professional development and school improvement.

ISP Accountant Key Responsibilities

Accountancy:

- Maintain and reconcile the general ledger, ensuring accuracy and compliance with accounting standards, under Spanish GAAP and IFRS GAAP.
- Manage accounts payable.
- Coordinate the purchase ordering process for the school to ensure supplies and materials on delivered as needed.
- Review and propose supplier invoices payments, to be approved by the Head of Finance.
- Perform bank reconciliations and resolve discrepancies.
- Tax: record and reconcile taxes into the financial software (VAT, Withholding tax, SII report and Social Security)
- Process month end and year end accounting.
- Ensures month end deadlines are met.
- Ensures financial statements are accurately stated.
- Coordinate the information flow with schools to secure the supplier information is received in time and through the official channels.
- Expenses Tracking: Monitor and record personal and company expenses, ensuring proper documentation.
- Manage Capex module through the financial software and reconciliation within the accountancy.
- Perform general ledger reconciliations and account analysis.
- Support the preparation of monthly financial reports.
- Assist with the audit, providing necessary documentation and explanations.
- Support the financial budgeting and forecasting.
- Ad hoc tasks and responsibilities, as required by the role.

School Partnering:
- Participate in review calls, or face to face meetings, with the Head of Finance, FP&A, AR team and school management teams, to provide an overall understanding of matters impacting school performance against budgets, forecasts and year and over performance.

Skills, Qualifications and Experience
- Professional Qualified Accountant.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to build good working relationships with all members and levels of the organization.
- A methodical, highly organized approach to the execution of assigned tasks and responsibilities.
- Positive, proactive, passionate, personable, results orientated, ambitious professional, who is keen to progress within a global organization.
- Strong organizational, time-management skills and an ability to deal with shifting priorities.
- Dealing with external advisors (suppliers, auditors, tax etc).
- Previous experience in a multinational environment, is desirable.
- Fluent written and spoken Spanish a requirement. English language skills an advantage.
- Ability to handle confidential information with maturity and discretion.
- Capacity to take initiative and solve problems, supported by the Head of Finance.

Key Relationships

To be successful in this position, the Accountant must build strong working relationships with the following groups:

- School Finance Team
- AR School Team
- Regional Finance Team
- Schools Administrative and SLT teams.

ISP Principles

Begin with our children and students. Our children and students are at the heart of what we do. Simply, their success is our success. Wellbeing and safety are both essential for learners and learning. Therefore, we are consistent in identifying potential safeguarding issues and acting and following up on all concerns appropriately.

Treat everyone with care and respect. We look after one another, embrace similarities and differences and promote the well-being of self and others.

Learn continuously. Getting better is what drives us. We positively engage with personal and professional development and school improvement.

ISP Leadership Competencies

You consistently demonstrate and role-model the ISP Leadership Competencies in all that you do.
- Collaboration. Takes an active part in leading their school or region; is cooperative and a genuine team player, developing positive, supportive relationships with colleagues to solve problems and maximise opportunities.
- Learning & Getting Better. Continually demonstrates personal commitment and passion for learni