You manage financial reporting, accounting processes, and payroll, ensuring compliance and accuracy while working closely with the finance team to improve overall workflow efficiency.
Anforderungen
- •Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting
- •CPA/ACCA or equivalent is helpful
- •Validated knowledge of US-GAAP and IFRS
- •Experience with Big 4 audit firms preferred
- •Solid Microsoft skills, especially Excel
- •Strong experience with internal control
- •Ability to connect financials with business activity
- •General understanding of taxation principles
- •Outstanding attention to detail and accuracy
- •Ability to meet timelines and balance priorities
- •Self-motivated character finding improvement opportunities
- •Strong interpersonal skills and teamwork
- •Strong communication skills for effective relationships
Deine Aufgaben
- •Prepare and record bookings according to standards.
- •Create balance sheet reports and analyze fluctuations.
- •Perform monthly and quarterly financial closings.
- •Conduct complex entries and analyze reports.
- •Assist with audit and compliance queries.
- •Process payroll and reconcile related accounts.
- •Collaborate with the finance team on transactions.
- •Maintain fixed asset register and post entries.
- •Apply company-wide accounting policies accurately.
- •Identify and implement process improvements.
- •Provide ad-hoc reports and participate in projects.
Deine Vorteile
Competitive remuneration
Annual incentive bonus
Healthcare coverage
Range of employee benefits
Original Beschreibung
# Senior GL Accountant
**Allschwil, Switzerland** | **Full time** | **Fully Onsite**
**Work Schedule**
Standard (Mon-Fri)
**Environmental Conditions**
Office
**Job Description**
When you are part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work. And you’ll have the opportunity for continual growth and learning in a culture that empowers your development. With revenues of more than $40 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and chances to define sign important contributions the world!
We are looking for an experienced **Senior GL Accountant** to join our **Finance team in Basel, Switzerland**. In this key role, you will play an important role in the finance departement. You have a strong accounting knowledge and general ledger experience. Scrutiny of reserves and review of sophisticated accounting is a key task of the job. You play a vital role in maintaining SOx controls which impact accounting compliance.
Success in this high-reaching role will be demonstrated through a passion for finance to provide timely and accurate finance information, meeting closing timelines as well as proactively supply to improved finance and accounting processes.
**Your responsibilities:**
* Prepare and record all bookings in accordance with accounting standards and company policies.
* Prepare reports such as balance sheet review and fluctuation analysis with commentary and follow-up actions as required, for example follow up on outstanding items
* Perform monthly and quarterly closings
* Conduct sophisticated entries and analyze financial reports.
* Support the statutory and tax accounting team on audit and compliance queries.
* Processing of payroll and related journals as well as reconciling corresponding accounts.
* Collaborate closely with the entire finance team to ensure all transactions have been accurately brought together.
* Maintain the fixed asset register and post monthly entries relating to fixed assets.
* Understand company-wide accounting policies and apply relevant policies appropriately.
* Identify and drive areas of improvement within current processes with the aim of maintaining the current high standard of services provided.
* Support the management and other collaborators with ad-hoc reports and participate in projects.
**Your qualifications:**
* Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or a related major, or equivalent experience.
* CPA/ACCA or equivalent is helpful.
* Validated knowledge of both US-GAAP and IFRS as well as SOx.
* Experience in working with both Big 4 audit firms and international companies is preferred.
* Solid Microsoft skills, especially Excel, Teams, Word, and Outlook. Power BI is not a requirement but appreciated.
* Strong experiences with internal control environment and risks.
* Ability to demonstrate discernment to connect financials with business activity.
* General understanding of taxation principles, both direct and indirect taxes.
* Outstanding attention to detail and accuracy, ideally paired with strong analytical and problem- solving skills.
* Ability to meet timelines, balance multiple priorities and perform job responsibilities accurately.
* Self-motivated character who finds opportunities for continuous improvement and is able to work independently.
* Strong interpersonal skills, ability to work in a team and communicate proficiently in English and German.
* Strong communication skills to establish effective working relationships at all levels of the organization.
**We offer** competitive remuneration, an annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization and outstanding career and development prospects.