Senior Accounting & Tax Supervisor

FoodChain ID:
Seeing Food Clearly For more than two decades, FoodChain ID has been at the vanguard of the New Food industry, providing expertise worldwide to navigate the requirements of an increasingly regulated food economy and technical services to support the demand for clean label standards.
FoodChain ID assists food, feed, and agricultural companies—from the world’s leading brands to single product local producers—through certification and technical and testing services and solutions. They provide the knowledge, technologies and tools necessary to meet the growing demand for higher levels of transparency, accountability, safety and sustainability.
FoodChain ID was founded in 1996 as Genetic ID, a pioneer of the GMO food identification industry—one that is now embraced worldwide. Their technical and business services rapidly expanded to include serving clean label, food safety, and sustainability claims through offerings of Non-GMO Project verification, USDA Organic certification, BRC and SQF food safety certification, ProTerra, ProFarm, United States Hemp™ Association—and many others—along with a robust suite of testing/business services that expedite food and agricultural exports. Today, more than 30,000 companies in over 100 countries rely on their industry-leading solutions.
About Berkshire Partners
Berkshire Partners, a Boston-based investment firm, has made more than 130 private equity investments since its founding over 30 years ago. Berkshire Private Equity has developed sector experience in multiple areas including business services & technology, communications, consumer, healthcare and industrials. The firm has a strong history of partnering with management teams to grow the companies in which it invests. Berkshire Partners acquired FoodChain ID in December 2020.
Company//https://www.foodchainid.com/
Owner//https://berkshirepartners.com
Overview
FCID is seeking an “Senior Accounting & Tax Supervisor” to support the business operations in Greece. The role will report into the Senior Manager for Accounting at FCID Europe & Asia located in Italy, and to the local Business Manager. Primary responsibilities include management of local & global accounting, tax, and filings operations, while also supporting the local General Manager, and international team in a growing environment. The career pathway for this role aims at training and developing the next Head of Accounting at FCID.
Accountabilities

• Prepare monthly closure using Netsuite, GL accounts reconciliations/reclasses, IC reconciliations, AR/AP details, bank details, dividend payments and other cash transfer across the Group;
• Coordinate and oversee the tax matters and deal with local advisor and US tax Manager. Tax matters are mainly related to current income taxes, DTA/DTL, VAT, WHT, R&D deductions opportunities etc;
• Manage Preparation of monthly accrual and related supporting documentation;
• Support to Global Finance function in implementing new accounting principles/tools;
• Support to Global Finance function in automatizing the internal flow (from paper to shared folders);
• Manage and coordinate local statutory audit and all the local filings;
• Deal with advisor (accounting, tax, auditors) and provide document to complete statutory, vat and income tax declaration.

Core competencies / requirements

• CPA or other local chartered accountant qualification
• Proven knowledge of bookkeeping and accounting principles, practices, standards, laws and regulations, ideally having proven experience with IFRS or US GAAP
• Experience of 4 years in Audit (preferably Big 4 or tier 2 audit firms)
• Experience of 4-5 years in a multinational group (ideally operating in service market)
• Knowledge of Microsoft package (Excel) and experience with Netsuite;
• Ability to work in an international, fast paced and change driven environment
• Ability to manage an heterogenous team, composed by many individuals, with different competences and backgrounds;
• Proactivity, high attention to detail and accuracy.
• Place of work is Athens with need to work from office daily
• Language requirements: fluent in English

Offer: 30.000 – 38.000 EUR Gross / Year (based on experience and seniority)