Accounting Manager (Austria, Hungary, and other countries)

at  Apollo Tyres

Apollo Tyres Ltd is an international tyre manufacturer and the leading tyre brand in India. The company has multiple manufacturing units in India and a unit each in The Netherlands and Hungary. The company markets its products under its two global brands – Apollo and Vredestein, and its products are available in over 100 countries through a vast network of branded, exclusive and multi-product outlets.
Job Title: Accounting Manager (Austria, Hungary, and other countries)
Location: Wien
Reports to (Position): Head of Accounts EU
Department/Function: Finance
Number of Direct Reports (Solid Line): 2
Purpose of the Job: For our Finance organization in South-East Cluster Europe, we are looking for a Cluster Accounting Manager. In this role you will steer financial administration, tax and local compliance activities, period-close and financial reporting activities. Further you are going to be the linking pin between country finance (Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, BIH, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Rep, and Romania) and central finance operations. As Cluster Accounting Manager, you are based in Vienna, Austria and reporting directly to the Head of Accounts EU based at company’s European Headquarters in Amsterdam.

Major Responsibilities: Your activities will cover those as mentioned below, but is not limited to:

• Period-close: Ensuring timely and quality month-end accruals and GL review and timely period close activities as per group timelines
• Financial accounting: Managing day to day financial administration of accounts payable & accounts receivable
• Accounts reconciliation: Regular GL/vendor/customer reconciliation and ageing analysis to ensure adequate accounting hygiene
• Treasury: Day-to-day treasury operations related to vendor payments, customer collections, bank reconciliations, cash flow forecasting/reporting and banks relationship management
• Payroll administration: Manage payroll administration of foreign subsidiaries with support from external service providers or inhouse and related compliances
• Audit support: Ensure timely closure of quarter / year-end external audit and finalization of statutory financial statements of legal entities with-in the scope
• Taxation Compliance: Monthly VAT reconciliation/ filings, Corporate Income Tax and Transfer pricing compliance at legal entities with-in the scope
• d Services: Regular engagement with group’s offshore Global Business Services team for AR/AP/R2R and period-end tasks
• Reinforce Financial Discipline: Steering implementation of group’s Delegation of Financial authority guidelines at legal entities with-in the scope

Requirements:

• Chartered Accountant, or similar Professional accounting qualification
• 10 years+ relevant work experience of which 5 years+ in a similar role
• Experience in Financial / Internal controls governance & taxation compliance
• Working knowledge of ERP systems, SAP preferred
• International mind-set and ability to work with people for different cultural background
• Team player - being able to work with multiple colleagues from many departments
• Communication & advisory skills - ability to precisely summarize on key topics
• Fluent in English and German. Knowledge of Hungarian language would be a plus.

• Period-close: Ensuring timely and quality month-end accruals and GL review and timely period close activities as per group timelines
• Financial accounting: Managing day to day financial administration of accounts payable & accounts receivable
• Accounts reconciliation: Regular GL/vendor/customer reconciliation and ageing analysis to ensure adequate accounting hygiene
• Treasury: Day-to-day treasury operations related to vendor payments, customer collections, bank reconciliations, cash flow forecasting/reporting and banks relationship management
• Payroll administration: Manage payroll administration of foreign subsidiaries with support from external service providers or inhouse and related compliances
• Audit support: Ensure timely closure of quarter / year-end external audit and finalization of statutory financial statements of legal entities with-in the scope
• Taxation Compliance: Monthly VAT reconciliation/ filings, Corporate Income Tax and Transfer pricing compliance at legal entities with-in the scope
• d Services: Regular engagement with group’s offshore Global Business Services team for AR/AP/R2R and period-end tasks
• Reinforce Financial Discipline: Steering implementation of group’s Delegation of Financial authority guidelines at legal entities with-in the scop