Accounting Officer

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About TMF Group

TMF Group is a leading provider of administrative services, helping clients invest and operate safely around the world. As we're a global company with 11,000+ colleagues based in over 125 offices across 87 jurisdictions, we actively seek out people with the talent and potential to flourish at TMF Group, whatever their background, and offer job opportunities to the broadest spectrum of people. Once on board we nurture and promote talented individuals, making sure that senior positions are open to all.

We have been present in Poland for over 20 years, helping our clients from offices in Warsaw and Katowice, where more than 700 people already work. Katowice is also the location for our second structure - the Regional Delivery Center, whose task is to serve the European markets of our clients, companies from the Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 rankings. As part of the structures, we are looking for specialists in the field of international accounting & tax, human resources and payroll, and global entity management. We also build teams that will be responsible for handling international funds and supporting internal financial processes of the TMF Group.

Discover the Role

We are looking for an experienced Accounting Officer to join our Regional Delivery Center in Katowice. In this role, you will have the possibility to work remotely or hybrid from the office in Katowice.

Key Responsibilities

• Build up a strong working relationship with local and international clients, notaries, external advisors, banks, regulatory bodies, and other relevant parties.
• Adequately keep up with (client) activities and refer them to trusted third parties, to tighten the relationship with such parties, also enabling increased business opportunities for TMF Group as a whole.
• Provide the client with comprehensive financial and administrative support and transactional assistance within the scope of the engagement, ensuring the client meets its timelines in all legal and regulatory matters.
• Set-up and maintain computerized administrations and/or financial databases.
• Generate and administer accounting procedures and ensure that all procedures are carried out in accordance with local legislation and policies of the client.
• Compile, enter and post monthly journal entries.
• Prepare statutory financial reports as well as client-specific reports.
• Assist in cash management including the management of bank accounts and payment instructions.
• Prepare reporting to third parties, e.g. Chamber of Commerce, Dutch Central Bank, Tax Authorities and other relevant parties.
• Interact with Supervisor Accounting on a daily basis and assist on special projects.
• Ensure proper correspondence for accounts.
• Maintain contact with auditors, tax advisors, lawyers, notaries, and other involved parties to obtain required information for reporting purposes.
• Interact with external auditors in completing audits.
• Identify problems or unexpected events arising during work and resolve them.
• Draft notifications concerning income tax, dividend tax, and where necessary VAT (if no advisor has been appointed).
• Organise the correspondence file, have the company file prepared, and supervise the input of documents in the company file.
• Signal any accounting, administrative or tax issue of a(n) (intended) client transaction and liaise - after consultation with a Supervisor Accounting - with the client and/or advisors.
• Attend and independently carry out meetings with clients and business partners.
• Execute any activities necessary to ensure TMF Group c.a. and its clients comply with required regulations.
• Interact with the Supervisor Accounting and the MPM on a daily basis and assist on special projects.
• Ensure a timely and correct filing of the administrative records.
• Keep client data and the client database up to date in a timely and accurate manner.
• Keep records per account of own worked hours on a daily to weekly basis and in line with the specific fee arrangements with the client.
• Review the records per account of your client entities of team members' worked hours.
• Review and approve draft invoices in a timely manner.
• Pro-actively coordinate outstanding debtors balance and arrange for payment of (annual) fees, debtors control and collect outstanding receivables.
• Together with the Legal Officer monitor the fixed fee agreements and manage the potential fixed fee gap.
• Act as a gatekeeper to ensure TMF Group meets its obligations as a gatekeeper of the financial system as required by local and international laws and regulations.
• Perform any other tasks and duties as requested or assigned by the Supervisor Accounting and/or Market Practice Manager.

Key Requirements

• You possess a financial-administrative degree (e.g. Bachelor or Master degree in economics, ACCA certification or equivalent) or a comparable level achieved through exposure and experience.
• Preferably a minimum of 3 - 5 years relevant working experience.
• Excellent knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles such as Dutch GAAP is desirable and affinity with IFRS.
• You possess thorough knowledge of finance, accounting, and cost control principles.
• You have good knowledge and experience in the use of accounting-related programs and apps, Caseware and Dynamics (nice to have).
• Excellent business English written and verbal communication skills.
• Good communication skills coupled with the ability to liaise with people internationally, through spoken and written channels and at all levels.
• Excellent Excel skills.
• General interest in international financial/capital markets and financial instruments.

What's in it for you?

• Convenient central location of the office.
• Stable employment.
• Flexi-time and remote working.
• An international and dynamic environment.
• Private medical care.
• Life insurance.
• Co-financing for the Multikafeteria program (e.g. Multisport card).
• Access to a language platform with 12 different languages to learn.
• Access to a mental health and well-being platform offering a variety of functionalities that will support you in caring for your well-being.
• Exceptional people and atmosphere.
• Christmas and occasional gifts.
• Co-financing of holidays (social fund).
• Opportunity to take part in charity projects.

We're looking forward to getting to know you

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