Junior General Accountant

EUROAPI; Paris; Sur place; EUR 35 000 - 45 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A leading pharmaceutical company in France is seeking a Junior General Accountant to support compliance and accounting tasks. The role involves processing daily transactions, assisting with tax compliance, and preparing financial statements. Candidates should have 2-5 years of experience in accounting and be fluent in both French and English. Join a company committed to sustainability and quality in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience in Accounting and Tax compliance (including internships).
• Ability to coordinate and consolidate input from multiple stakeholders.
• Basic skills to work with Excel and Power BI.

Responsabilités

• Processing of daily transactions in IFRS accounting.
• Assisting in statutory accounting and tax compliance.
• Preparing closing documentation and reconciliations.
• Participating in the submission of tax returns and payments.

Connaissances

Accounting and Tax compliance

Organizational skills

Flexible team player

Building partnership and trust

Excel and Power BI

Accounting software knowledge

Communication skills

Fluent in French

Professional English

Outils

SAP (FICO, AA)

Description du poste

Overview

As part of an organisational project, this role is essential for supporting consistency and compliance for IFRS and statutory accounting and tax compliance. The Junior General Accountant will focus on executing daily accounting tasks and assisting with monthly and annual closing processes of EUROAPI FRANCE.

Key responsibilities

• Daily transactions: Processing of all daily transactions in IFRS accounting, such as bank accounting, assets commissioning or scrapping, Manual Journal Entries posting, …
• Monthly and annual transactions: Assisting in the main transactions in statutory accounting, tax compliance and tax reporting, including quarterly and yearly closing entries relevant to local accounts.
• Closing documentation: Assisting in the preparation of the closing documentation and performing the relevant reconciliations (e.g. reconciliation of trade payable and trade receivable accounts, bank reconciliations).
• Financial statements: Assisting in the preparation of yearly statutory financial statements and corporate tax returns.
• Tax compliance: Participating in the submission of tax returns and payments, as well as VAT declarations.
• Deferred taxes: Participating in the monitoring of deferred taxes calculations and temporary differences.
• Reporting Packages: Participating in the processing of the French reporting packages in the Consolidation tool (BFC) on monthly basis. Business partnering: Collaborating with central and local teams in managing the monthly and yearly closing processes. Participating in business meetings and providing support in accounting and tax topics.
• Continuous Improvement: Contributing to the continuous improvement of General ledger Accounting process.
• Quality checks: Ensuring quality checks and review of the financial data in his / her scope.

Policies and procedures

• Participating in defining the change in policies and procedures of the legal entity.
• Contributing to Internal Controls definition for processes in scope and supporting external audit processes.

Contacts

Internal :

• Head of Group General Accounting
• CFO
• Tax department
• Corporate Finance : any other finance department
• Local HR
• Other : Legal, Commercial, Industrial and Development departments, etc.

External :

• Auditors, IT Advisors, Payroll BPO, etc.
• Statutory auditors, tax authorities

Expected skills

• 2-5 years of experience in Accounting and Tax compliance (including internships)
• Organizational skills such as the ability to coordinate and consolidate input from multiple stakeholders
• Flexible team player, proactive
• Building partnership and trust over time with key stakeholders
• Basic skills to work with Excel, Power BI
• Basic knowledge of accounting and ERP software SAP (FICO, AA, …), tax compliance & reporting tools
• Written and verbal communication skills
• Fluent in French, and Professional English

Our company

EUROAPI is focused on reinventing active ingredient solutions to sustainably meet customers’ and patients’ needs around the world. We are a leading player in active pharmaceutical ingredients with approximately 200 products in our portfolio, offering a large span of technologies, while developing innovative molecules through our Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) activities.

Taking action for health by enabling access to essential therapies inspires our 3,450 people every day. With strong research and development capabilities and five manufacturing sites all located in Europe (Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf and Vertolaye in France, Brindisi in Italy, Frankfurt in Germany and Budapest in Hungary), EUROAPI ensures API manufacturing of the highest quality to supply customers in more than 80 countries.

EUROAPI is listed on Euronext Paris.

Culture & Values at Euroapi

We bring our culture to life in the way we work every day. Our culture allows career development and talent management, we recognise that how we do things is as important as what we do, and our values define how we achieve our goals and help us to “do things right”.

Our values and behaviours are based on the following pillars :

• We empower our people to have a greater positive impact.
• We create value by placing our customers at the centre of everything we do.
• We take responsibility for what we do, always acting in the best interests of the company.
• We value and respect all our stakeholders.

EUROAPI is committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion that contributes to improved innovation, performance and engagement.Nous valorisons la transparence, le respect mutuel et l'égalité de traitement des personnes. C'est pourquoi nous protégeons fermement nos employés contre toute forme de discrimination.

We are convinced that the success of our company lies in its ability to adapt to the challenges of tomorrow. Our responsibility as a company is to ensure the sustainability and resilience of the pharmaceutical value chain.