The Role
The Chief Accountant is responsible for managing the accounting team, overseeing financial operations, maintaining ledgers, supervising month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, and enhancing internal controls. They collaborate with auditors and tax authorities, preparing financial statements and reports, while also contributing to administrative tasks within the accounting department.
Summary Generated by Built In
- Manage, monitor and mentor/train the entire accounting team (4 accountants).
- Assist in the development and implementation of goals, policies, priorities, and procedures relating to financial management, budget, accounting, and/or payroll.
- Maintains general and subsidiary ledgers (e.g. accounts receivables, accounts payables, revenue, expenses, fixed assets register etc.), overseeing the correctness of posting.
- Supervises the month end close and prepares the supporting reports for monthly management accounts.
- Supervises the year end close including reconciliations and preparation of reports for consolidation.
- Supervises and participates in the preparation of financial statements and reports.
- Posting of accruals, provisions, prepaid expenses, entries re fixed assets etc., solving of complex accounting problems
- Review and improvement of accounting and administrative controls.
- Establishes system controls for new financial systems and develops procedures to improve existing systems.
- Communication and cooperation with the external/internal auditors, tax advisors, tax authorities, banks etc.
- Controlling support
- Monthly VAT reporting, preparation of annual income tax return, road tax and other tax matters
- Ensure compliance with the Czech Accounting Standards
- Administrative support to the accounting department and other related work including accounting documents archiving.
- Work collaboratively with other teams to achieve shared goals.
- BS degree in Accounting, Finance or relevant.
- Proven experience as an accounting supervisor, chief or senior accountant.
- Awareness of business trends and advanced knowledge of accounting and tax legislation.
- Experience with general ledger functions and the month-end/year-end close process.
- Hands-on experience with accounting software packages.
- Advanced MS Excel skills including “Vlookups” and pivot tables.
- Accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability of working with numbers.
- Fluent knowledge of Czech and/or Slovak language.
- Written and spoken knowledge of English - level (B2).
- Independence, diligence, responsibility, reliability.
- Proactive approach to work, logical and analytical thinking.
- Interest in personal development and ability to learn.
- The background of an international law firm.
- Professional and friendly environment.
- Excellent financial rewards in line with the experience.
- Annual bonus and interesting benefits (5 weeks holiday, sick days, personal leave, MultiSport or MultiPass card).
- Professional and career growth.
Top Skills
Excel
The Company
What We Do
Dentons is the world's largest law firm, delivering quality and value to clients around the globe. Dentons is a leader on the Acritas Global Elite Brand Index, a BTI Client Service 30 Award winner and recognized by prominent business and legal publications for its innovations in client service, including founding Dentons Global Advisors. Dentons' polycentric approach and world-class talent challenge the status quo to advance client interests in the communities in which we live and work. www.dentons.com
