Senior Accountant/Comptable Unique

Imagine your career taking you to the depths of innovation and the heights of impact.  Our people enable continuous progress. Their commitment, collective expertise, and unique capabilities are the engine room behind SBM Offshore’s True. Blue. Transition. - shaping the future of energy, and beyond.

About Us:
SBM Offshore is the world’s deepwater ocean-infrastructure expert. Our work is already resulting in cleaner, more efficient energy production. True. Blue. Transition. is our promise to enable that into the future while at the same time using our expertise to support new and existing markets in the blue economy. It starts with Advancing our Core: continuing to advance the decarbonization of traditional energy production. While Pioneering More: helping to enable the energy transition and using our unique capabilities in ocean infrastructure to support more industries to grow sustainably.  Sharing our experience for a better blue tomorrow.

ROLE PURPOSE

•Reports to : Accountant Manager

•Supervision of : n/a

•Position based in : France – Carros (06)

•Liaises with :  Accounting department, HR, Group Tax, Reporting, Cost control, Group consolidation, Treasury Department, external auditors, Legal, French administration, External consultant

You will be in charge of the bookkeeping and financial statements of SBM France, based in the SBM Group engineering laboratory in Carros (06). The company mission is to provide advanced engineering support to SBM Group projects and perform technology projects as part of SBM Group technology strategy.

ROLE CONTRIBUTION

Participate to the daily/monthly accounting process

- Perform the monthly closing tasks : booking of non-recurring journal entries and cut off entries

- Prepare or review payroll/employee benefits bookings

- Prepare and control inter company rebill of project costs from SBM entities to the company you are in charge of

- Software reconciliations (SUN/SAGE)

- PP&E register follow up (acquisition; commissioning; disposal; depreciation; inventory…)

- Bank reconciliations

- Prepare CIT / VAT returns and other French tax requirements (CIR-Credit research tax, Surveys BDF/Insee..)

- Review the impacts of project subsidies contracts

- Ensure internal control procedures are applied (IcoFr framework);

- Ensure Group accounting policies are applied in the accounting processes of the relevant companies

- Ad hoc audit missing if needed (R&D project statements)

Provide account analysis on a quarterly basis for the Group Consolidated Balance Sheet report sent to the Group consolidation team

- Contribute to analysis of consolidated balance sheet at sub-consolidation level

- Prepare consolidation journals for the relevant companies ;

- Prepare yearly disclosures;

- Provide support to consolidation issues (blocking controls, I/CO mismatches, unrelevant Jnls..)

- Ad hoc requests from Accountant Manager

Responsible of the preparation of the statutory Financial Statements under Franch Gaap

- Prepare the statement of Financial Positions, Profit and Loss, Other Comprehensive Income and cash flow statement and the notes to the financial statements

- Manage the Statutory audit and liaise with external auditors

- Manage and prepare unaudited financial statements for bi-annual bank covenants;

- Tax audits management (preparation, documentation, back up…)

- Prepare the tax reporting of the company for Group tax purposes, in cooperation with Tax manager
 

Job requirements

Education: Business School or financial & accounting related degree

Experience (functions, duration): Three – five years’ experience in a related environment or an audit firm

Behaviours & inter-personal skills
 

•    Autonomous and initiatives skills

* Customer focus  
•    Action-oriented  
•    Collaborate  
•    Proactive and organized  
•    Ability to work with many interlocutors/teams
•    Good communication skills
•    Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines

PREFERRED SKILLS

- Solid accounting knowledge

- Statutory accounting, tax requirements, audit process

- IT tools (Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, and Powerpoint), ERP or SAGE 

- Internal control framework

- French and English speaker

- Analytical skills and critical thinking

GENERAL INFORMATION

SBM Offshore N.V. is a listed holding company that is headquartered in Amsterdam. It holds direct and indirect interests in other companies that collectively with SBM Offshore N.V. form the SBM Offshore Group (“the Company”). For further information, please visit our website at www.sbmoffshore.com. The companies in which SBM Offshore N.V., directly and indirectly, owns investments are separate entities.

SBM Offshore is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. SBM Offshore does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.  All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.