Role Responsibility

As Accountant you will concentrate your activities on the following:

Trade creditors & BERs (travel/ business expenses):

• Process purchase invoices and BERs
  • check correctness and process authorisation
  • trade creditor accounting
• Organise and process payment runs
• Monitor and post cost accruals
• Support monthly finance / month end processes (Serco Group and Germany)

Treasury:

• Petty cash
• Bank accounts
• Quarterly statutory statistics (AWV-Meldung)

Accounts:

• Posting bank-, creditor accounts and cost accruals
• Monthly reconciliations of all local balance sheet accounts (incl. documentation)
• Monthly Intercompany Reconciliation/ Reporting
• Deputise monthly BPC processes
• Support yearend audit and statutory accounts (German GAAP)
• Support tax audits
• Prepare documentation for yearly tax returns
• Ad-hoc reporting to German management and contract managers

VAT

• Monthly and yearly reconciliation of P&L accounts and VAT
• Prepare and submit monthly VAT returns
• Prepare and submit quarterly reports (ZM-Meldung)

Asset register:

• Maintain fixed asset register & inventory

Successful Candidate

Do you think you are the person we are looking for? See below what experience or knowledge you should bring:

• Bachelor’s degree with a focus on accounting / taxes / audit or alternatively completed commercial education with additional training as a certified accountant (Bilanzbuchhalter);
• + 5 years experience in accounting;
• You have worked with Corporate Accounting office;
• Result oriented, quality focused and a proactive team player who is used to work independently;
• High team and communication skills, as well as quick comprehension:
• Fluency in German and English;
• Very good understanding of MS Office;
• Flexible ways of working;

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Important

Any offer of employment is contingent upon you providing documents to verify your identity and employment eligibility, as required by law.

Applicants are reminded that they will be requested to produce such documentation during the recruitment process.

Please contact a member of the recruitment team if you require further details of acceptable types of documentation required for verification of identity and work authorization. 

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Package Description

What we offer if you join our amazing team:

• Competitive Salary 

• Corporate Benefits Package 

• Exciting relocation package​ (if applicable) 

• Company events

About the Company

Serco is one of the world’s largest providers of public services to Governments employing over 50,000 people in over 20 countries. In Europe, Serco supports governments and international organisations in the delivery of essential public services with operations in Belgium, France and French Guyana, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland.

What connects the ever growing Serco workforce is a passion for delivering great service and to keep ahead we have to constantly evolve and enhance the way we deliver our services and everyone in Serco has a role to play. We have a mandate to execute brilliantly and our people lead and inspire based on our core values, Trust, Care, Pride and Innovation.

As a business which delivers “front-line” public services, employing tens of thousands of people, we are constantly developing and promoting people; our need for skilled professionals is insatiable and few companies can offer as many opportunities for individuals to grow their careers.

A career with Serco offers the chance to work with both inspirational people and innovative contracts, in a dynamic and exciting environment.

If you share our values and want to join a team of over 50,000 passionate colleagues globally we want to hear from you.

Make a difference every day.

Take pride in what you do!