Statutory Accountant with French

About the Role:

• Prepare statutory financial filings in line with local requirements, ensuring compliance with statutory and fiscal regulations, and documenting all statutory adjustments.

• Perform quality checks on statutory balance sheets and income statements; ensuring accuracy and completeness of financial reporting.    

• Coordinate and support statutory audits by providing required documentation, reconciliations, and samplings. Work closely with Accounting Controllers and Statutory Chief Accountants to ensure smooth audit processes.    

• Prepare recurring and non-recurring journal entries for statutory purposes, ensuring complete and accurate reporting during the month-end close.    

• Participate in harmonizing statutory processes across entities, initiating and implementing cross-departmental improvements, and collaborating with the Head of Statutory Center of Excellence for global implementation.    

• Share information on statutory compliance status and proactively support the management of compliance risks.

• Implement country-specific statutory compliance changes in collaboration with local the Accounting Controllers.    

• Monitor adherence to internal control requirements, ensuring that operating procedures are applied and valid. Support interactions with local authorities and internal/external auditors.

About You:

• Accounting professional with 3+ years of experience in accounting and financial reporting, preferably within SSC.

• Master's degree in Finance or Accounting  with CPA or similar certification.

• Experience in statutory accounting, audits, and filings.

• Good knowledge of financial accounting (accounting processes, IFRS, GAAP, webFEM) and tax.

• Hands-on, proactive, able to work in a fast-paced matrix organization.

• Ability to work under severe time pressure during the statutory delivery process while maintaining attention to detail.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Effective communication skills to enable management of multiple relationships across different countries.

• Experience with ERP, HFM, and Merlin, or a willingness to learn.

• Fluent in English and French, both verbal and written.

We offer:

• Dynamic work environment with a lot of room for growth and development.

• Opportunity to actively participate in process transformation.

• Attractive salary + attractive operational bonus.

• Extended medical package at Lux Med along with the dental package.

• Learning Cafeteria (incl. Percipio).

• Well-being Workshops. Mentoring Program (YAM).

• Possibility of flexible work in a hybrid model.

• Possibility of acquiring professional certifications (e.g. Lean Six Sigma belts).