Tax accountant Jobs in Frankfurt

Job Description

Overview

Rapiscan Systems is an industry leader in detection technology, providing cargo and vehicle inspection systems and services for ports, borders, military, high-threat facilities, and checkpoints to help customers combat terrorism, drug smuggling, illegal immigration, and trade fraud. We offer a broad array of scanning system configurations that leverage low-, medium-, and high-energy X-ray technology—or multiple X-ray technologies—to address each customer’s unique security application requirements. Our commitment to excellence in imaging performance, innovative design, and uncompromising quality ensures our solutions consistently deliver best-in-class imaging, high reliability, and operator satisfaction, to help customers find threats and contraband. with ease and confidence.

Accountant overview :

Location will be based in Frankfurt Germany.

Responsibilities

About the Role : Location Frankfurt Germany with hybrid option.

This role requires the candidate to perform all aspects of accounting, from producing simple general ledger journals to creating the complete set of financial statements, as well as performing the accounts receivable and payable functions, managing inventory and other assets.

The company is a small subsidiary of OSI Systems Inc, which is a multi-national corporation with revenues exceeding USD 1 billion. There is scope for this role to expand to include financial responsibility for other companies within the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) region in the future for a successful candidate and get them resolved.

Skills required :

Confident with reading, writing and speaking in both German and English is essential. The Regional staff that this role will be supporting are all English speaking. The operations staff are German speaking.

Intermediate Excel skills, including confident in the use of pivot tables, logical formulae, lookup functions etc. are essential. Almost all aspects of the accounting activities are done using Excel.

Accounting and bookkeeping skills necessary to create the financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, cashflow) and extended trial balance are essential.

Working knowledge of the different types of tax applicable in Germany as described in the job specification above.

Confident with working with limited supervision, being able to solve problems independently, and able to manage work requirements effectively in an environment where priorities regularly change.

Responsibilities : General Accounting :

• Create and post general ledger entries for Rapiscan Germany in both Enterprise Resource Systems (ERP) of Navision 5.0 and Dynamics .
• Produce and review the monthly financial results for Rapiscan Germany at the Trial Balance level in accordance with the monthly reporting deadlines.
• Produce the complete financial statements using excel : balance sheet, income statement and cashflow statement using the trial balance information.
• Perform the balance sheet reconciliations for Rapiscan Germany and resolve any queries that arise from the reconciliations, including posting correction journals.
• Process and reconcile intercompany invoices with other companies in the OSI group of companies and meet the intercompany reporting deadlines.
• Ensure German accounting and operational activities are compliant with the OSI group of companies SOX (Sarbannes Oxley) internal control requirements.

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