Senior Accountant- General Ledger
- Employer
- Zalando
- Location
- Berlin
- Closing date
- 3 Sep 2020
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- Function
- Finance
- Level
- Senior Manager
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Job Details
ABOUT THE TEAM
Department: Finance
Reports to: Lead - Assets & Investments
Team Size:.6
Recruiter Name Abdul Tafadar E-mail: abdul.tafadar@zalando.de
As a Senior Accountant - Record to Report / General Ledger, you provide internal customers with high quality, accurate, and timely financial data as well as reports to enable informed business decisions. Furthermore, you manage accounting processes, post to the general ledger, maintain master data, reconcile and maintain multiple balance sheet accounts, prepare financial statements and perform complex financial analysis tasks. In addition, you participate in audit or pre-audit tasks, compliance activities and other accounting related cross functional projects.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
ABOUT ZALANDO
Zalando is Europe's leading online platform for fashion, connecting customers, brands and partners across 17 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 23 million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.
Department: Finance
Reports to: Lead - Assets & Investments
Team Size:.6
Recruiter Name Abdul Tafadar E-mail: abdul.tafadar@zalando.de
As a Senior Accountant - Record to Report / General Ledger, you provide internal customers with high quality, accurate, and timely financial data as well as reports to enable informed business decisions. Furthermore, you manage accounting processes, post to the general ledger, maintain master data, reconcile and maintain multiple balance sheet accounts, prepare financial statements and perform complex financial analysis tasks. In addition, you participate in audit or pre-audit tasks, compliance activities and other accounting related cross functional projects.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
- Ensure the correct procedure of closing processes (monthly, quarterly, yearly) on the highest quality and strive for continuous improvement.
- Overall maintenance of assigned ledger in accordance with corporate policies and IFRS/local gaaps.
- Conceptualize and drive initiatives to increase financial transparency, while establishing and cultivating trustful cross-functional cooperation and efficient information flow with the business, controlling and technical teams.
- Propose and implement measures to optimize financial processes alongside operational KPIs, and ensure alignment of cross-cutting initiatives.
- Manage projects, i.e. drive content, coordinate stakeholders and a small project team.
- Leverage your expertise and previous experience to constantly seek out better ways of performing processes, to contribute to process excellence initiatives and to mentor more junior team members.
- You hold a degree (Bachelor, Master, MBA) in Economics, Business Administration, Finance, Accounting or equivalent and you have 5-10 years of work experience in a related field.
- You have a profound background in accounting principles (IFRS), in working with SAP and preferably you have experience working in a shared service center.
- You have strong process and analytical skills to deliver a great data-driven performance. You are able to drive projects autonomously, keeping tight deadlines and managing multiple stakeholders.
- You are self-driven, results-oriented, and enjoy working independently: you take being a role model seriously, always display a positive attitude and you are a real team player.
- You are curious and open to continuous change, accept uncertainty and actively seek improvements in your area of responsibility. You are brave to experiment and test improvements.
- Culture of trust, empowerment and constructive feedback, open source commitment, meetups, game nights, 70+ internal technical and fun guilds, knowledge sharing through tech talks, internal tech academy and blogs, product demos, parties & events
- Competitive salary, employee share shop, 40% Zalando shopping discount, discounts from external partners, centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services, great IT equipment, flexible working times, additional holidays and volunteering time off, free beverages and fruits, diverse sports and health offerings
- Extensive onboarding, mentoring and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts
- Relocation assistance for internationals, PME family service and parent & child rooms* (*available in select locations)
We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
ABOUT ZALANDO
Zalando is Europe's leading online platform for fashion, connecting customers, brands and partners across 17 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 23 million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.
Company
Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle. Founded in Berlin in 2008, we bring head-to-toe fashion to 35 million active customers in 17 markets, offering clothing, footwear, accessories and beauty from over 3,000 international brands.
Our platform is a one-stop fashion destination for inspiration, innovation and interaction. As Europe’s most fashionable tech company, we work hard to find digital solutions for every aspect of the fashion journey: for our customers, partners and every valuable player in the Zalando story.
Our goal is to become the starting point for fashion. We focus on the fashion industry and therefore operate in a variety of business areas.
- Fashion Store
Zalando online shops are tailored to local customers’ needs in 17 different European markets. The range extends from renowned global brands and fast fashion to local brands and is supplemented by our private labels.
- Offprice
The Offprice business of Zalando serves the sale of previous season’s assortments. As part of a shopping club, the Zalando Lounge offers registered members exclusive sales campaigns at discounted prices.
- Zalando's Private Labels
Zalando’s private label assortment includes shoes, clothing and accessories for women, men and children. With a total of six private labels, Zalando creates its own products, covering the entire value chain from design to sales.
- Zalon
Zalon is our style advice service, via which customers can consult and get inspiration from selected stylists regarding individualized purchases.
- Zalando Marketing Services
The entirety of Zalando’s expertise and scope is bundled in Zalando Marketing Services, which now offers personalized marketing solutions for our brand partners.
- Zalando Fulfilment Solutions
Zalando makes its own logistics capabilities available to external partners, so they do not have to be concerned with infrastructure issues but can concentrate fully on their core competence in the fashion business.
- Zalando Partner Services
Zalando helps other players in the industry to be successful in the digital world. For example, by connecting warehouse stocks with multiple retailers, by digitizing processes involved in fashion wholesale and by integrating offline businesses into our Zalando platform.
With a strong workforce of around 14,000 employees of over 130 different nationalities, Zalando unites diverse people, capabilities and concepts. Consolidating our effort and ideas scales our impact as an innovator in Fashion, Technology, Digital Marketing and Logistics Operations.
Company info
- Website
- https://jobs.zalando.com/
- Telephone
- +49 (0)30 2759 4693
- Location
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Zalando SE
Valeska-Gert-Straße 5
Berlin
Germany
10243
Germany
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