Accounting and Reporting Specialist

WHO YOU ARE

You have a strong connection to the IKEA vision, the IKEA values and have an interest in home furnishing and people’s everyday life at home. You are open to and able to work in a fast-paced retail environment, eager to deliver results and hungry for knowledge and growth for your skills using them for developing IKEA business and yourself.

Your profile:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a similar role in accounting;
• Strong experience of working in Retail or FMCG with the high volume of operations;
• University degree (accounting / finance);
• Experience in working with a diverse team;
• Experience working with ERP systems (Navision, SAP, other systems), 1C and M.e.doc;
• Ability to read and communicate in English;
• Advanced user of MS Office tools, particularly Excel;
• Good interpersonal skills and effective communication (both verbal and written).

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING DAY TO DAY

Your job is to ensure a high quality accounting & reporting in compliance with company’s internal and local GAAP, and being a pro-active business partner who supports the relevant stakeholders in reaching their objectives.

You will be part of the accounting team and you will:

• Maintain accurate, complete and timely bookkeeping operations;
• Be responsible for bank payments preparation and execution, bank statement posting, working with client-bank system;
• Be in charge of account payables accounting (local and foreign suppliers of services, materials and goods including posting of customs declarations on import), posting and formation of inventory value in accordance with the principles of local accounting and IFRS, conducting all expense accruals and postings  according to local, IFRS accounting principles and legislation rules;
• Perform IC reconciliations between counterparts   (both account receivables and account payables);
• Perform fixed assets and low value assets accounting and postings according to local accounting, tax rules and IFRS;
• Participate in inventory stock counts, booking the stock count differences in the accounting system properly and in line with the   local and corporate requirements and procedures;
• Be responsible for proper registration of VAT incoming and out coming invoices in M.e.doc and ERP system, VAT accounting (both VAT obligations and VAT credit), participation in preparation  of monthly VAT declaration; 
• Deliver accurate information for financial, tax and statutory reporting purposes;
• Participate on monthly and yearly closing  procedures in ERP (depreciation, IC reconciliation, deferred charges, provisions and accruals, tax reconciliations) and ensuring adherence with the monthly and yearly accounting reporting cycles.

TOGETHER AS A TEAM

We see ourselves as influencers – we steer the IKEA business by finding the truth behind the figures. Together we secure compliance with local and international laws and reporting standards; we assure that accounting processes are efficient and that tax compliance meets business needs. We’re a diverse group of people driven by providing reliable financial data to a wide variety of stakeholders. At the end of the day, that’s one of the foundations to make IKEA even better!

ABOUT US

IKEA Ukraine is a part of IKEA South East Europe - an exciting and empowering region with great growth agenda in all countries - Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Ukraine. IKEA South East Europe currently operates 6 stores and we are preparing to open new ones in the nearest future.

We strongly encourage and warmly welcome applications of people of all cultures, backgrounds and experiences because we believe that diversity in IKEA makes us stronger.

Join us now and apply for the position online with your CV in English.