Financial Controller
Brussels
Edelman – Global Advisory /
Full-Time /
Hybrid
Edelman Global Advisory (EGA) is a boutique international advisory firm within the Edelman network that owns the firm’s government affairs and business advisory services. We have rebranded public affairs to advisory to better capture the evolution and future of this sector. Advisory services combine business strategy, government affairs, corporate social responsibility and sustainability, and political risk analysis to help clients navigate changing political and economic dynamics. Our mission is to build trust in today’s evolving geopolitical environment.
Joining the EGA team will provide team members with the opportunity to be involved in the building of this growing firm—from creating a new culture, to redefining public affairs services, to exploring new services, such as data analytics and political risk analysis—across the regions where we operate: APAC, MENA, Europe, North America, Latin America, and India. We view ourselves as a start-up built on top of one of the world’s most recognizable brands.
Purpose
- The Financial Controller is a member of the Finance Team and reports to the Finance Director of the Edelman Brussels office.
- The Financial Controller is responsible for the general accounting and the reporting in USGAAP and in Belgian GAAP for the Belgian entities of the group.
- The Financial Controller complies with company policies and procedures including ethics policies.
- The Financial Controller endorses the Edelman values such as quality, integrity, respect, entrepreneurial spirit, mutual benefits.
Responsibilities:
Accounting
Supervision of all accounting processes such as:
- Prepare documents to be processed by shared services.
- Prepare and/or process manual journals.
- Review and approve payments of supplier’s invoices and expenses notes.
- Review regularly accruals to ensure full compliance with the Group policy.
- Follow-up on accounts payables.
- Act as expenses notes auditor.
- Interco
Taxes
Supervision of all taxes/fiscal processes such as:
- Prepare and send the monthly VAT declarations.
- Prepare and send the annual client listing.
- Prepare and propose the schedule for the prepaid taxes.
- Prepare and send the Income Tax declaration (ISOC).
- Prepare the calculation related to transfer pricing.
- Complete tax payable roll-forward schedules and tax fee forecast.
Closing & reporting
Support to the Finance Director during month end process:
- Review actuals costs and compare with latest forecast.
- Provide commentaries on variances between actuals & forecasts.
- Prepare the different reports and analysis to be discussed with the FD before closing the month.
- Prepare the reconciliation of the balance sheets accounts.
- prepare annual statutory accounts and the related reconciliations to US GAAP each year (the “Stat to GAAP rec”)
Other
- Provide- finance support & ad-hoc training to all staff.
- Ensure proper transition to the new ERP software.
Preferred knowledge and skills
- Bachelor’s in accounting (Belgian GAAP)
- Excellent knowledge of Belgian VAT and Belgian fiscality
- Proven experience of accounting/ financial management in the service industry.
- Public relations/Marketing Communications industry experience is preferred.
- Qualified candidates are client service oriented and possess strong financial analysis and communication skills.
- Team player attitude.
- Strong work ethic.
- Qualified candidates demonstrate professional behavior and pursuit of excellence in all endeavors.
- Problems solver.
- Fluent in English and French.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft office including Outlook, Word, Excel & Powerpoint.
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Edelman is a global communications firm that partners with businesses and organizations to evolve, promote and protect their brands and reputations. Our 6,000 people in more than 60 offices deliver communications strategies that give our clients the confidence to lead and act with certainty, earning the trust of their stakeholders. Our honors include the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for PR; Advertising Age’s 2019 A-List; the Holmes Report’s 2018 Global Digital Agency of the Year; and, five times, Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work. Since our founding in 1952, we have remained an independent, family-run business. Edelman owns specialty companies Edelman Data & Intelligence (DxI) and United Entertainment Group (entertainment, sports, lifestyle).
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