Asset Accountant

What you'll do

Within CERN's Finance and Administrative Processes Department (FAP), specifically the Accounting Services Group. We are looking for a dynamic person to join our General Accounting (GA) section and play an active role in the accounting of CERN's tangible and intangible assets, as well as its inventories. You will also support broader financial reporting activities and exciting accounting projects. There will be a particular focus on Property, Plant and Equipment (PPE).

As an experienced Accountant, you will join a team of seven professionals and play a key role in all activities related to asset accounting.

Your responsibilities

• Coordinate regular register(s) updates and reviews of useful lives and residual values with other CERN stakeholders.
• Analyse CERN projects to identify new assets or consolidation/upgrade of existing assets.
• Perform accounting entries related to movements of assets, depreciation/amortisation, and impairment tests.
• Support the ongoing ERP transformation project touching the areas of asset accounting and financial accounts.
• Perform balance sheet account reconciliations, including a reconciliation of assets register(s) to financial accounts.
• Maintain policies, procedures, and controls to ensure efficient, accurate, and compliant asset accounting.
• Coordinate physical assets counts.
• Support external auditors queries.
• Support preparation of the Organization's Financial Statements, including assets related notes and disclosures.
• Maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Your profile

• Proven experience as a general accountant with a focus on asset accounting, such as Property, Plant and Equipment (PPE).
• Demonstrated experience with international accounting standards IFRS and/or IPSAS.
• Experience preferably acquired in a company handling large volumes of data or in an international organisation.
• Master's degree or equivalent relevant experience in the field of Accounting, Finance or a related field. Accounting certification, such as ACA, CA, CPA, etc.

Your skills

• Accounting control and analysis, book-keeping and book-closing.
• Financial reporting and analysis, handling large volumes of data.
• Has a structured and organised approach towards work; is able to set priorities and plan tasks with results in mind.
• Uses openness and honesty to interact constructively with others.
• Assimilates large quantities of information, identifies key issues and formulates conclusions clearly and concisely.
• Demonstrates a willingness to accept changing circumstances; supports initiatives for change.