Senior Accountant

at  Fluor Corporation

Fluor is one of the largest global engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction and maintenance company with projects and offices on six continents.
Fluor Engineering NV, located in Antwerp, is focused on developing long-term relationships with customers in revamping, debottlenecking and expanding the production capacity of their existing facilities in all sectors of the Process Industry in Belgium: Chemical, Petrochemical, Power, Life Sciences, Food, Pharmaceutical, Recycling,.. The Antwerp office provide the full project execution services: from conceptual engineering, basic engineering, and detailed engineering through commissioning and construction support.
For our team in Antwerp we are looking for a Senior Accountant.
As a Senior Accountant you will provide direction, training, and evaluation to a staff of accountants and technicians.
You will be responsible for the review and analysis of group’s performance from an efficiency and productivity standpoint with a detailed knowledge of work processes and internal controls.
This role assists management in understanding and communicating accounting issues and challenges/changes to the group.

Key responsibilities:

• Interface with other groups inside and outside the organization, including internal and external auditors
• Manage projects as requested by senior management to define, organize, create an organized plan as well as track, manage, and communicate status
• Review and analyze financial performance of the assigned organization and assist management in understanding and communicating financial issues
• Supervise the financial statement closing process on a monthly and quarterly basis for the assigned organization
• Approve journal entries and other manual adjustments that impact the financial statements
• Prepare/review/approve account reconciliations and prepare variance explanations
• Other duties as assigned

BASIC JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• 6-8 years proven work experience in a financial position preferably in the similar industry.
• Exhibit thorough understanding of pertinent codes and governing regulations and industry practices
• Candidates need to be fluent in both Dutch and English;

Written and verbal communication with our Clients is both in Dutch as in English

• Strong interpersonal skills
• Willingness to travel
• Be able to multitask

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent leadership and decision-making skills
• Strong discretion and independent judgment is required
• Ability to work under pressure
• Excellent knowledge of procedures, policies, and best practices as related to the department
• Demonstrated proficiency in the use of PC-based business applications, with a strong emphasis in Excel
• Demonstrated proficiency in the use of global enterprise resource planning (ERP) accounting applications such as SAP
• Able to operate to strict deadlines

• Interface with other groups inside and outside the organization, including internal and external auditors
• Manage projects as requested by senior management to define, organize, create an organized plan as well as track, manage, and communicate status
• Review and analyze financial performance of the assigned organization and assist management in understanding and communicating financial issues
• Supervise the financial statement closing process on a monthly and quarterly basis for the assigned organization
• Approve journal entries and other manual adjustments that impact the financial statements
• Prepare/review/approve account reconciliations and prepare variance explanations
• Other duties as assigne