Senior Accounting Specialist

kantar; Porto; Hybrid; EUR 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid working

Up to 25 days off, life leave, and a B

Meal card and flexible benefits

Job summary

Kantar Porto is seeking a Senior Accountant to join our Finance function, delivering month-end and year-end close processes, balance sheet reconciliations, and journals. You will coordinate with Financial Business Partners and stakeholders to ensure accuracy and compliance across the organisation.

The role requires strong statutory accounting knowledge, English proficiency, and flexibility to work across time zones.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an accountant.
• Experience in producing year-end accounts and preparation for audit.
• Strong technical knowledge of statutory accounting.
• Proficient English speaker, able to read and write English and communicate effectively.
• Ability to work in a changing and flexible organisation.
• Willingness to work flexibly across geographic time zones during peak periods.
• Fluency in French, German and/or Polish is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Assist in maintenance, processing, and production of month/year-end close processes, balance sheet reconciliations, journals, and associated schedules.
• Review Opex accounts, prepare period close entries, and lead Opex review calls with Financial Business Partners.
• Prepare monthly financial documents with Kantar consolidation tool on a monthly and quarterly basis.
• Review balance sheet reconciliations and align with collaborators on adjustments needed.
• Support maintenance of the fixed assets register.
• Assist with audit requests coming through to Kantar Business Services.
• Support controls compliance and internal control requirements.
• Accountable for quarterly review of account variances analysis.
• Maintain knowledge management and documentation for managers and staff access.
• Build relationships with customers and partners, supervise service delivery, resolve issues.

Skills

Proven experience as an accountant

Year-end accounts

Audit preparation

Statutory accounting

English proficiency

Time-zone flexibility

French/German/Polish desirable

Job description

We're the world's leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.

Our Functions teams are right at the centre of our business, making sure we can always get better, every day. Supporting the business with things like Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Legal and Technology, our Functions colleagues are skilled professionals whose role it is to ensure we continue to become an indispensable partner to brands everywhere.

Job Details

The senior accountant role at Kantar Porto is part of a dynamic and coordinated Finance function delivering operational Finance specialist services. Reporting to the Financial Accounting Lead, you will work with internal and external partners to ensure processes are performed in accordance with performance and quality standards.

Why this job is important

This role is crucial in ensuring the completeness and compliance of our financial processes. By maintaining and processing month/year-end close processes, balance sheet reconciliations, and journals, you will contribute significantly to the financial integrity of our organisation.

What makes this opportunity outstanding

At Kantar Porto, you will be part of an ambitious team dedicated to achieving world-class financial practices. You will play a pivotal role in maintaining the financial health of our business, ensuring our processes are both flawless and compliant. Our collaborative environment will empower you to compete and excel, while working with hardworking and driven professionals!

What you'll be doing

• Assist in maintenance, processing, and production of month/year-end close processes, balance sheet reconciliations, journals, and associated underlying schedules.
• Review all Opex accounts, prepare all period close entries, and lead the Opex review calls with Financial Business Partners and other collaborators.
• Prepare monthly financial documents with Kantar consolidation tool on a monthly and quarterly basis.
• Review all balance sheet reconciliations and align with collaborators on possible adjustments needed.
• Support the maintenance of the fixed assets register.
• Assist with audit requests coming through to the Kantar Business Services.
• Support controls compliance and other internal controls requirements.
• Accountable for the quarterly review of account variances analysis.
• Maintain knowledge management and documentation to ensure managers and staff always have access to current and compliant documents and mentorship.
• Build relationships with customers and partners, supervise service delivery, and resolve any issues effectively.
• Develop sound professional working relationships with colleagues across KBS and Local Business, building their confidence and acquiring an understanding of the business.

The ideal skills & experience

• Proven experience as an accountant.
• Experience in producing year-end accounts and preparation for audit.
• Strong technical knowledge of statutory accounting.
• Proficient English speaker, accurately able to read and write English and communicate efficiently.
• Ability to work in a changing and flexible organisation.
• Willingness to work flexibly across geographic time zones during peak periods such as period end.
• Fluency in French, German and/or Polish is desirable

What's in it for you

• Flexible hybrid working
• Up to 25 days off, life leave, plus your birthday off and two days paid for volunteering
• Meal card and flexible benefits where you are allocated funds to spend on a variety of benefits such as transport cost, education related and more

Country

Portugal

Why join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We're dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you're not an exact match, we'd love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.