Senior International Accountant

Reports to: Accounting Supervisor, Dublin

Job Overview:

Country Financial Controller as a member of the EMEA Controller Team, working in a shared services environment.

Job Responsibilities:

• Financial accounting
• Monthly, Quarterly and Year end close
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Ownership of balance sheet & profit and loss
• Quarter end reporting
• Fixed asset accounting for the entities
• US GAAP lease accounting for the entities
• Statutory audit and reporting
• US GAAP year-end audit clearance
• Corporate income tax returns
• Tax audits and enquiries from tax authorities
• Tax compliance
• VAT compliance and reporting
• Cash flow and balance sheet forecasting
• Cash management
• Bank reconciliations
• Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for the entities
• M&A integration support
• Ensure financial processes are in accordance with and adhere to corporate policies

• Key role as part of Finance team with key interfaces with other internal customers and European controllers, A/P, A/R, Payroll, Cadence US treasury, US Corporate accounting, US Tax and local tax advisers.
• Ad hoc projects

Job Qualifications:

• Fully qualified accountant – ACA/ACCA
• 1-3 years PQE preferable
• Fluent English
• Considerable experience of Financial statement preparation
• Good working knowledge of GAAP

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• SAP experience
• US GAAP/MNC experience
• European language skills – not required but a bonus
• Ability to deliver to immovable deadlines with a high degree of accuracy
• Strong sense of responsibility for completion of deliverables to meet own objectives
• Ability to work within a matrix business structure with internal customers in multicultural environment with multiple locations and time zones

Behavioral Competencies:

Competency

Definition

Teamwork

• Both Supports others and asks for and receives help from others
• Understands and contributes to team objectives
• Constructively resolves conflicts with team members
• Gives opinions and listens to other member’s ideas during team meetings

Customer Focus

• Understand and acts on customer needs (including internal customers)
• Approaches work from the perspective of “what customer problems will I solve” by doing this?
• Works with “suppliers” to make sure that customer needs can be met

Accountability

• Is self-accountable for situations, attitudes, and behaviors
• Recognizes true intent of situations and owns their role in outcome whether positive or negative
• Self-examines and learns from outcomes
• Demonstrates willingness to renew attitudes and behaviors to achieve desired outcomes

Communication

• Communicates ideas, opinions, status, and suggestions to individuals & groups
• Written and verbal communications convey ideas and information in a concise, understandable, and grammatically correct manner, using appropriate style and tone

Leadership

• Takes responsibility for strategic action and initiatives
• Finds innovative solutions to Cadence problems (in business, people, and technology areas)
• Assesses alternative courses of action and seeks information needed to make timely decisions
• Makes effective and efficient decisions and aligns actions with values
• Participates in cross-group initiatives

Additional Information:

Cadence is committed to equal employment opportunity and employment equity throughout all levels of the organization. We strive to attract a qualified and diverse candidate pool and encourage diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

What we can offer you:

• Competitive salary
• 25 days holiday per year
• Private Medical and Dental plans, Income Protection and Life Insurance
• Group Personal Pension Plan
• Cycle to work scheme and gym subsidy
• 5 days paid time to volunteer to give back to our communities
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• The opportunity to work for a Great Place to Work© & Fortune 100 organization

Travel: <5%

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