Your Contribution
As the Head of Statutory Group Accounting Region Europe (m/f/d), you will be responsible for the professional and disciplinary management of the employees in the Corporate Controlling Accounting department for the Europe region.
1. Professional management of employees in the Shared Service Center in Poland
2. Responsible for supporting the subsidiaries in the European region on accounting issues and questions relating to the preparation of reporting packages
3. Professional contact person for first-time consolidations/deconsolidations, mergers and carve-outs
4. Responsible for sub-areas of consolidation - in particular the elimination of intercompany profits and losses in fixed and current assets and capital consolidation, including all possible special cases such as the mapping of mergers, carve-outs, first-time consolidations and deconsolidations, change of method from at equity valuation to full consolidation, etc.
5. Responsible for preparing the consolidated cash flow statement
6. Responsible for preparing the balance sheet annexes for the consolidated annual financial statements and the quarterly financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement, statement of changes in equity, notes, statement of changes in fixed assets, list of shareholdings, group chart)
7. Preparation of planning calculations and simulations as a basis for management decisions
8. Responsible for preparing presentations, explanatory annexes and analyses of consolidated financial statements for the management, supervisory bodies, rating agencies, banks and investors
9. Calculation of key figures for financing
10. Contact person for auditors
11. Preparation of special accounting issues
12. Preparation of training documents and implementation of training for MAHLE employees on accounting issues
13. Further development of group-wide internal guidelines
14. Cooperation with the Group Controlling, Business Analysis and Financing departments
15. Collaboration in the introduction of the new reporting and consolidation system (SAP BCS/4HANA)
16. Maintenance and further development of other IT-based analysis and reporting “tools” (mainly Excel-based)
Your Experience and Qualifications
17. Successfully completed studies in business administration or economics with a focus on accounting/controlling/finance
18. Many years of professional experience in accounting/controlling or at an auditing firm
19. Initial experience in managing employees
20. Very good, in-depth accounting knowledge of single-entity and consolidated financial statements in HGB and IFRS
21. Strong analytical skills
22. Meticulous and systematic working style and professional competence
23. Strategic thinking and systematic problem solving
24. Intercultural skills
25. Experience in using SAP EC-CS / BCS, or comparable consolidation software
26. Very good knowledge of MS Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint
27. Very good written and spoken German and English skills
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