Accountant

About Graitec Group:
**HIS ROLE CAN BE BASED AT EITHER OUR BARCELONA OR HANNOVER OFFICES**

**About GRAITEC Group**

Founded in 1986, Graitec is a global leading Building Information Modeling (BIM) provider helping its architectural, engineering, construction and manufacturing customers to CREATE, SIMULATE, FABRICATE and MANAGE all the data of their projects.

The company is driving growth through 3 highly complementary activities:

- Value Added Reseller of Autodesk solutions
- Software Editor of a suite of products complementary to Autodesk solutions for the construction industry
- Services since Graitec is providing training, consulting and support on top of the products with a consistent focus on customer satisfaction.

Experts & Talents from all over the world.

Our team is made of more than 500 outstanding talents, distributed across our 50 offices in 13 different countries, enabling us to meet our customer needs around the globe.

The team is known for its accountability, agility and customer centricity as well as indeed for its ambition for both business growth & for sure impactful innovations with more than 25% of our teams in Research & Development.

Strengthening our international leadership position.

We are honored to serve more than 100 000 customers worldwide to achieve more thanks to our technologies and to rank in Top 5 largest Autodesk Partner worldwide.

Our ambition is to double our business in the coming few years as we just did in the last 4 years thanks to both organic growth & acquisition. This is why we are investing heavily on our upcoming transformation & reinforcing ongoing our teams globally.

About the Team Hiring:
**About the Team hiring**
- Finance Team_, _Germany_
- Our Team is responsible for the processing of financial transactions; We are the gatekeeper of the Audited Annual Financial Statements_
- We are in charge of Cash Management (A/P, A/R, etc.) in compliance with Corporate Group Policies and local regulations. We maintain a low DSO._
- We report monthly to the Group respecting the deadlines and perform analysis to explain the results vs budget._
- We are supporting the local business and work with all the functions (Sales, Order Operations, Tech, etc.). Our role is to help the other functions to drive the business and to make the best decisions to grow and achieve the country target._

Overview:
**About the Role**

**Role purpose/Objective**

**The role of the Accountant is to assist the Controller with the smooth running of the department. Completing all tasks in a timely and efficient manner.**

**Key Responsibilities**- Process all purchase invoices for the German offices.
- Deal with Supplier queries in a timely and efficient manner.
- Maintain Supplier Account records.
- Deal with daily banking using the Bank online system for all currency bank accounts.
- Reconcile supplier statements at the end of each month to ensure we have all the invoices.
- Deal with Staff Expense claims - check receipts and process for payment.
- Prepare Supplier/Staff payments for authorisation.
- Check credit card expenses, ensure all electronic receipts are legible and present and process for payment.
- Complete assigned month end reporting tasks in a timely and efficient manner.
- Assist with Cash Forecasting
- Provide cover within the team in times of sickness and annual leave.
- Assist the Controller with improvements to systems and processes where necessary.
- Report all issues to the Controller in a timely manner.
- Any other ad hoc tasks as and when required.
- Ensure consistency between Accounting and Invoicing Management System
- VAT / Sales Tax Returns
- Annual Tax Return and other tax returns
- Prepare variable information for payroll processing

**KPIs**
- DSO
- Meeting Reporting deadlines
- Annual Audited Financial Statements with no reserve
- Consistency between Accounting and Invoicing Management System

**Responsibilities**:
**Required experience**
- min. 5 years in similar role as accountant in an international environment.
- Purchase ledger experience
- Knowledge of accounting programs (i.e. DATEV)
- Experience in intercompany reporting (BFC a plus)
- Office 365 and Axapta Skills are beneficial

Qualifications:
**Required skills, abilities & qualifications**
- Adaptability, Autonomy, Clarity in communication, collaborating effectively, Driving for results, Positive energy
- Finance Accounting qualification
- Fluent English speaker
- Teamplayer - keen to drive results together

Interview Process:

- Screening/Get to know discussion
- Hiring Manager and Finance Team member