We are looking for a Senior Accountant to join our Group's International Controllership team in Barcelona.
The role requires strong relationship building with business finance, corporate functions, internal & external audit and within the shared service centre community and is critical in ensuring that all revenue, costs, commitments, assets, and liabilities are accurately recorded on a timely basis.
This role will provide support for the control of the balance sheets and ensure that the financial statements reflect local and international standards as well as complying with the Sarbanes Oxley recommendations.
About You – experience, education, skills, and accomplishments
- Accounting degree is required or equivalent experience
- Good knowledge of IFRS and US GAAP
- 3+ experience in accounting, firm experience or MNC experience is preferred
- End to end accounting process understanding
- Advanced Excel skills
- Fluent in English (both written and oral)
It would be great if you also had
- Quick learner and adapt to change
- Proven ability to meet deadlines
- Proven ability to form strong relationships with customers and shareholders
- Strong customer focus work ethic
- Proven problem solver
- Clear and effective communicator
- Comfortable to multi-tasking
- Self-motivated
- Enthusiastic
What will you be doing in this role?
The role reports to the Financial Controller Spain & South America. The key activities for the role are as follows:
- Support the delivery of the monthly close activities for each company under remit
- Support the production of key supporting schedules and balance sheet and P&L
- Support Black Line reconciliations and other monthly activities
- Support monthly tax compliance and filing
- Support monthly variance analysis and explanations
- Support the statutory audit process
- Support internal and external auditors and regulatory agencies
- Support the integration of acquired companies
- Coordinate with centralized process teams
- Support ad hoc projects and tasks
About the Team
You'll be supporting our Spanish and South American entities as assigned and reporting to the Financial Controller Spain & South America. The wider accounting team consists of 30+ colleagues. We have an effective team of self-driven colleagues who collaborate with various stakeholders
Hours of Work
This is a permanent full-time position, hybrid going to our Barcelona office (next to Sagrada Familia) 2-3 times per week.
Our Spain Employee Benefits include:
- A modern culture environment combined with all the financial and stability advantages of working for a large business.
- Active volunteering community, with 40 annual paid hours of volunteering time.
- Private Health Insurance
- Life & Disability insurance.
- Tax-free benefits (Ticket Restaurant scheme, kindergarten and transport cards).
- Language classes (Catalan, Spanish and English).
- Global and dynamic employee base (more than 20 nationalities).
- 30 working days of vacation.
At Clarivate, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all persons with respect to hiring, compensation, promotion, training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment. We comply with applicable laws and regulations governing non-discrimination in all locations.