Accountant (6-Month Term)

at  Roquette

Roquette is a family-owned global leader in plant-based ingredients and a leading provider of pharmaceutical excipients.
Want to help us make a difference?
Using plant-based resources, we collaborate with our customers and partners to imagine and offer ingredients to better feed people and treat patients.
Each of our ingredients responds to unique and essential needs, and they enable healthier lifestyles.
Position Purpose:
This position will support accurate and reliable financials/reporting of the legal entity. The position works closely within the accounting team to understand issues and how they impact the financial results. This position supports the monthly and yearly closing activities, budgeting, and related reporting.

Mission of the job:

• Support all finance, accounting and tax compliance activities
• Assist in the preparation and publishing the monthly and year-end financial statements
• Support the activities for the tax functions, including, tax compliance activities, accounting for income taxes
• Implement group standards, internal controls and comply with external statutory, tax and governance requirements
• Support and collaborate the SAP transactional activities (AP, AR & GL) with the Shared Services center in Mexico

Key Accountabilities

Job duties include:

• Support the proper accounting of all the general, bank and fixed assets accounts
• Perform bank reconciliation and booking of banking transactions,
• Collect the necessary elements and record the provision entries,
• Collect the necessary elements and ensure the cut-off entries,
• Ensure the accounting of fixed-assets flows (creation, transfer, commissioning, disposal …)
• Assist the follow-up of accounts (reconciliation, up-to-date justification, management of the unreconciled entries, documentation in Blackline …),
• Monitor and ensure system interfaces are well executed (pay, sales, VAT …),
• Assist in payroll accounting,
• Assist in tax accounting and support the related provisions,
• Follow-up and reconcile inter-company operations and balances
• Assist in the month-end and year-end closing
• Participate in the preparation of the monthly reports and their reporting in BFC,
• Participate in the analysis of the balance sheet, and income statements (including the footnotes to the account for the year-end closing),
• Participate in the preparation of tax packages,
• Support Blackline account justifications in the expected format & meet reporting deadline.
• Adhere to processes and participate in process improvement
• Respect the established processes to guarantee a data quality, integrity and meet deadlines, comply with procedures & instructions,
• Make proposals for process improvement in a constantly changing environment.
• Master the tools associated with processes and seek out the opportunity for the continuous improvement
• Master the tools associated with the processes (SAP, CICS, BW / BW, SAP, Winshuttle, Qlik, GeoControl …),
• Propose optimizations regarding the use of these tools,
• Advocate and onboard new tools as part of a constant search for continuous improvement and modernization of accounting processes.
• Assist Plant Controller in the areas of management accounting, cost analysis, month-end controlling tasks and reporting

Qualifications/Requirements

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree preferably in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration; master’s a plus.
• Advance level of verbal and written in English.

Experience:
Minimum of 3 - 5 years of working experience in finance-related activities.
Fresh graduates are welcome with finance internship experience in a manufacturing environment.
Knowledge of SAP or other ERP-type product costing system in a manufacturing environment is preferred.
Good understanding of financial accounting and have worked in a manufacturing environment.
Knowledge of IFRS.
Experience with financial accounting and financial analysis.
Experience with general ledger functions and the month-end/year-end close process.
Experience with external audit activities and external auditor requirements.
A team player and a collaborator.
Specific requirements:
Ability to prioritize multiple responsibilities and meet deadlines.
Business Trips (Percentage):
Travel is limited but may be requested as needed.
If you identify yourself in this position, please apply by uploading your resume and let’s start the journey together !
Roquette is proud to be a global company where you can find personal and professional growth through multiple diverse experiences.
Roquette believes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion must be woven into everything we do, from the products we make, through the relationships we build with our partners, and most importantly within the teams we create and how we interact together.
As we continue to grow, Roquette understands that to be successful we must always be inclusive in our approach, by creating a workforce that represents the world we live in, and the communities and customers we serve.
To find out more about our products, values and sustainable development ambitions visit us at
www.roquette.com
and at
www.sustainability.roquette.com

• Support the proper accounting of all the general, bank and fixed assets accounts
• Perform bank reconciliation and booking of banking transactions,
• Collect the necessary elements and record the provision entries,
• Collect the necessary elements and ensure the cut-off entries,
• Ensure the accounting of fixed-assets flows (creation, transfer, commissioning, disposal …)
• Assist the follow-up of accounts (reconciliation, up-to-date justification, management of the unreconciled entries, documentation in Blackline …),
• Monitor and ensure system interfaces are well executed (pay, sales, VAT …),
• Assist in payroll accounting,
• Assist in tax accounting and support the related provisions,
• Follow-up and reconcile inter-company operations and balances
• Assist in the month-end and year-end closing
• Participate in the preparation of the monthly reports and their reporting in BFC,
• Participate in the analysis of the balance sheet, and income statements (including the footnotes to the account for the year-end closing),
• Participate in the preparation of tax packages,
• Support Blackline account justifications in the expected format & meet reporting deadline.
• Adhere to processes and participate in process improvement
• Respect the established processes to guarantee a data quality, integrity and meet deadlines, comply with procedures & instructions,
• Make proposals for process improvement in a constantly changing environment.
• Master the tools associated with processes and seek out the opportunity for the continuous improvement
• Master the tools associated with the processes (SAP, CICS, BW / BW, SAP, Winshuttle, Qlik, GeoControl …),
• Propose optimizations regarding the use of these tools,
• Advocate and onboard new tools as part of a constant search for continuous improvement and modernization of accounting processes.
• Assist Plant Controller in the areas of management accounting, cost analysis, month-end controlling tasks and reportin