Responsibilities

• Support the local controllership function and provide financial oversight on the Greece business
• Ensure adequate performance and reporting on the following by leveraging both onshore and offshore resources
• Account reconciliations
• Financial closing and consolidation
• Procure-to-pay functions (invoice & payment processing, T&E, etc)
• Intercompany transactions and reconciliation
• Support compliance with all relevant global, regional or local policies, procedures and guidelines
• Support change locally with regard to standardization and simplification initiatives as governed by the Global or Regional Center of Excellence core teams or by Finance leadership
• Assist in producing monthly closing dashboard, quarterly and year-end reporting packs in accordance with corporate requirements for the local market
• Support Operational Controller to maintain internal controls and ensure an effective control environment through active coordination with the Group Controller and the Global and Regional COE core teams
• Support the Operational Controller during local internal audit and compliance review assignments
• Responsible for the maintenance of local statutory accounts and ensure ongoing compliance to local regulation for the local legal entities
• Assist in the statutory and tax accounting and audit processes and act as the single point of contact for external auditors and/or tax and statutory authorities or consultants

Qualifications & Skills

• Fluency in English and Greek language mandatory
• At least 2-3 years of relevant experience in accounting / financial controlling or audit
• Knowledge and experience with local statutory requirements and statutory audits (Local GAAP, statutory financial statements, tax calculations, VAT returns)
• At least a Bachelor Degree in Finance or Accounting
• Experience with ERP systems (preferably SAP)IT-PC literate (Google for Work, Microsoft Office)
• Strong communication skills, team player, leadership traits
• Knowledge and experience with US-GAAP is a plus
• Local or international Accounting qualification is also a plus