Ernst & Young

Senior Consultant IFRS – Brussels – August 2019

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The opportunity

We are looking to strengthen our Financial Accounting & Advisory Services (“FAAS”) team with experienced profiles. The FAAS team consists of a group of experts in the following areas:

• Accounting excellence: IFRS, IPSAS, ESA, Belgian GAAP;
• Consolidation plus mergers and acquisitions: carve-out, IPO support consolidation, integration assistance;
• Management reporting: dashboards, closing process, cost accounting, cash flow analysis;
• Public sector: finance and controlling, management performance, operations performance.

Through this vacant position we envision to recruit experienced profiles to work specifically on accounting excellence. Our team is active in the Diegem, Antwerp and Ghent office allowing you to work in a flexible manner.

Job content

As a competent expert in IFRS you will join a team of IFRS professionals, mainly focused on IFRS conversion projects. In these projects we support our clients with the conversion of their local GAAP figures into IFRS figures. A typical project consist of performing IFRS technical analysis, calculation of the IFRS adjustments and development of the first IFRS financial statements. In addition to this, our team is advising clients on how to implement new IFRS standards and analyze how new transactions are to be accounted for following the IFRS rules.

We are currently looking to welcome an experienced profile within our team. Someone with a hands-on approach that can assist in performing not only technical analysis, but also the practical calculations and drafting of financial reports. Our IFRS team is actively contributing to the training of both colleagues and clients. Therefore a part of your job would also be to provide such IFRS trainings internally as well as externally.

Your profile

We recruit and develop experts who are motivated to learn, enthusiast about sharing their knowledge in teams and make a meaningful impact on our society by creating a better working world. Therefore, the ideal candidate has intellectual curiosity, strong analytical and entrepreneurial skills, and attention to details that allow us to look beyond the numbers and help our clients to address complex problems.

• You have a Master Degree and 2 – 5 years of experience in a domain relevant to IFRS;
• You are fluent in Dutch or French with a very good knowledge of English;
• You are a born team player, stress-resistant and results-oriented;
• Your work style is pragmatic and hands-on;
• You will work from one of our offices (Diegem, Antwerp or Ghent) but are flexible to work at clients sites as well;
• You have a good knowledge of the IFRS standards and BEGAAP accounting;
• You have a passion for IFRS and are willing to continuously keep your knowledge up to date with the new evolvements.

Our offer

• You will join a young, international, dynamic team, genuinely passionate about its work, within a leading global professional services firm;
• We offer extensive training, both on technical matters, as well as on soft skills and project management;
• We offer you an attractive remuneration package (competitive salary, net allowances and extensive fringe benefits: car and fuel card, smart phone, health insurance, pension plan, etc).;
• We are proud of our flexible working arrangements, and we will support you to build a successful career without sacrificing your personal priorities;
• At EY we are passionate about the inclusion and support of individuals of all groups; we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability status.

At EY, the spotlight is on our people. You are empowered to build your expertise and explore the world so that you can innovate and challenge the status quo.

Because Building a better working world begins here.

This is what makes us different, and renders working here a unique, lifetime experience.

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