Accountant

Location Darmstadt
Discipline: Life Sciences
Salary: £Up to €75,000 depending on experience
Contact name: Jeremy Clarke

Contact email: jeremy@merrittrecruitment.com
Job ref: 370
Published: 5 days ago

​Location: Darmstadt, Germany (hybrid negotiable)

Full time permanent position

Our client is a software company based in Darmstadt, Germany. They support the data and compliance management requirements of research-oriented organisations around the world. As an accountant (Buchhalter) (m/f/d), you will work in a global finance team and be our main contact for financial service providers and advisers in Germany.

Responsibilities:

  • Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements in accordance with HGB and US-GAAP

  • Record business transactions systematically and chronologically

  • Make national and international bank payments

  • Supervise and handle receivables management and dunning

  • Monitor financial transactions, including income and expenses, as well as related invoicing and payment processing

  • Work closely with our US parent company in the areas of budgeting, accounting and reporting

Skills and Qualifications:

  • Degree in business administration, finance, economics or a comparable course of study

  • Ideally, you have also completed further training as a balance sheet accountant (m/d/f) or tax specialist (Steuerberater) (m/d/f).

  • Fluent German and English (written and spoken)

  • An understanding of US GAAP and the differences to HGB

  • Understand German corporate tax and trade tax law as well as the requirements for German VAT

  • Several years of experience in financial accounting, ideally as an individual accountant with responsibility for the preparation of annual financial statements

  • Experience of accounting software, ERP systems, ideally Oracle NetSuite and knowledge of common MS Office programs, especially Excel

  • have a high sense of responsibility, work in a structured and independent manner

You will be working in a stimulating work environment as part of an open-minded and international team that operate out of modern fully services offices with free drinks and snacks during the working day. There is opportunity for flexible hours and hybrid working and a wide range of development and training opportunities.

You must have the right to work in the EU, sponsorship is not available.