Consultant Senior - Accountant

Our Delta Operational team is looking for a Consultant Senior - Accountant to help and support one of our clients. The Senior accountant will have the following responsibilities: • Take ownership of selected legal entities, balance-sheet areas or accounting workstreams. • Prepare and review journal entries, accruals, prepayments and account reconciliations. • Ensure transactions are recorded accurately, completely and in the appropriate accounting period. • Investigate unexpected movements and resolve accounting discrepancies. • Prepare variance analyses and explanations of material balance movements. • Support and improve monthly, quarterly and annual closing activities. • Coordinate with Accounts Payable, Treasury, FP&A, Tax, Group Accounting and local accounting providers. • Analyse and account for complex, unusual or previously unresolved transactions. • Prepare accounting position papers or technical memoranda when required. • Support intercompany accounting, reconciliations and mismatch resolution. • Investigate cash, bank-fee, foreign-exchange and transaction-flow discrepancies. • Review historical balances and identify unsupported, unreconciled, duplicated or incorrectly classified items. • Reconcile and remediate accounting data in SAP. • Establish reliable opening balances and clear audit trails. • Correct recurring posting, mapping and master-data issues. • Help reinforce SAP as the primary accounting source of truth. • Reconcile differences between the client’s records and those maintained by local accounting providers. • Prepare audit schedules, reconciliations, supporting evidence and accounting explanations. • Respond directly and independently to external-auditor requests. • Support statutory audits for European legal entities. • Prepare or contribute to balance-sheet substantiation, going-concern assessments and other accounting papers. • Maintain organised, complete and review-ready documentation. • Document accounting procedures and month-end activities. • Create or improve standard operating procedures, checklists and control evidence. • Perform root-cause analysis of recurring accounting issues. • Recommend and implement sustainable process improvements. • Contribute to the development of the accounting control matrix. • Use SAP and Excel for accounting operations, reconciliations and data analysis. • Work effectively with large datasets and incomplete or imperfect source information. • Identify accounting activities that can be standardised, simplified or automated. • Use tools such as Power Query, SQL, automation platforms or AI where they provide a practical benefit. • Document material automated processes so that they can be understood and maintained by the team. • Reduce recurring errors, unnecessary manual work and operational dependencies.

The Consultant Senior - Accountant will also have the responsibility to participate to the Delta Accountant club, support and manage Delta initiatives around the Accountant topics. As an operational consultant, the Consultant Senior - Accountant will act as Subject Matter Expert to support other colleagues in case of expertise needs.