Cluster Accounting Controller DACH (m/f/d)

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Date: Apr 22, 2025

Location: Köln, DE

Company: AkzoNobel

About AkzoNobel

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

 

For more information please visit www.akzonobel.com 

 

© 2024 Akzo Nobel N.V. All rights reserved.

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To support our Finance department at our cologne location, we are looking for a

 

Accounting Controller (m/f/d) DACH

 

 

Your Tasks

 

  • Responsibility for the Accounting / Finance DACH division
  • Coordinating and ensuring the proper processing of all relevant accounting and finance transactions in accordance with IFRS and commercial law for the respective legal entities
  • Proactive monitoring of balance sheet and income statement quality in collaboration with global and local stakeholders
  • Assistance with and control of bookings made
  • Recording problems, including finding solutions and passing them on to the relevant departments
  • Responsibility for auditing and approving the annual financial statements, including coordination and participation
  • Coordination and clarification of queries with the auditors
  • Recording and forwarding questions from the tax audit to the Tax Manager, including reconciliation
  • Participation in projects and continuous improvement measures
  • Interface function, e.g. with Business Functions, Business Controller, Supply Chain Controller, Sales, and Site Management
  • Responsibility for the continuous development and improvement of processes

 

People Management

  • Disciplinary and professional management of employees in line with AkzoNobel's management model
  • Responsibility for personnel decisions in cooperation with the HR Business Partner

 

Your Qualification

 

  • Completed business studies or commercial training with additional qualification, e.g. as an accountant (m/f/d) 
  • Many years of relevant professional experience within an international company
  • Profound knowledge of IFRS and HGB
  • Proven experience in leading an international team
  • Strong proactive and effective communication skills at all levels
  • Excellent analytical skills
  • Structured, independent and responsible way of working
  • Flexibility, resilience and hands-on mentality
  • Continuous Improvement Mindset
  • Very good knowledge of MS Office
  • Good knowledge of SAP (FI) and Hyperion HFM is a plus
  • Fluency in German and English
     

Your benefits

 

  • Attractive remuneration 
  • Above-average pension scheme
  • Flexible working hours and the option to work from Home
  • 30 days holiday
  • Employee car parks
  • External employee counselling on personal and professional issues

 

 

If you are interested in this position, please apply in English on our careers page, stating your salary expectations and earliest possible start date.

If you have any questions, please contact Raphaela Kreymborg; raphaela.kreymborg@akzonobel.com  

 

 

At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

Requisition ID: 46378 

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