Manager Accountant

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Our Functions teams are right at the centre of our business, making sure we can always get better, every day. Supporting the business with things like Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Legal and Technology, our Functions colleagues are skilled professionals whose role it is to ensure we continue to become an indispensable partner to brands everywhere.

Job Details

Why this job is important

As a Manager in Financial Accounting, you will play a crucial role in our dynamic and integrated Finance function. You will be responsible for delivering operational Finance specialist services, ensuring processes are performed in accordance with performance and quality standards. Your contributions will directly impact our ability to manage customer interactions more effectively and provide a better user experience.

What you’ll be doing

• Act as a specialised individual contributor for a pre-determined area or region.
• Prepare and review statutory financial statements in direct collaboration with the senior manager and country controller.
• Support the senior manager in delivering all internal and external audits for group and local purposes.
• Prepare tax reports, including VAT returns, Intrastat returns, and EC sales lists, and manage corporate tax payments.
• Administer purchase orders and maintain chart of accounts/GL master data.
• Support the senior manager on entity migrations and business combinations.
• Handle company secretarial activities.
• Support the country controller on ad hoc accounting and analytical queries.
• Ensure that control activities are being executed by each accountant in a harmonised way.

The skills & experience needed as Manager, Financial Accounting

• Proven experience in accounting operations or experience working in a finance Shared Service Centre (SSC) or Global Business Services environment.
• Strong understanding of accounting, financial reporting principles and practices.
• Proficient English speaker, accurately able to read and write English and to communicate efficiently with senior partners and management.
• Strong financial, analytical, communication and project management skills.
• Willingness to work flexibly across geographic time zones during peak periods such as period end.

What’s in it for you

• Flexible hybrid working
• Up to 25 days off, plus your birthday off and two days paid for volunteering
• Meal card and flexible benefits where you are allocated funds to spend on a variety of benefits such as transport cost, education related and more

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Country

Portugal

Why join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.