GL Accountant

We are hiring! For an international global player in the logistics sector (Puurs / Antwerp region), we are currently looking for a driven GL Accountant. Are you ready to perform at Champions League level in a dynamic environment where ownership and change are key?

• Location: Puurs / Antwerp region

• Company Culture: The bar is set high, but in return, you get a huge amount of freedom and autonomy.

• Team: You will join the Regional Shared Service Center (RSSC) for Benelux, a team of 30 accountants. The RSSC serves as an internal pilot within the international group: all accounting and controlling activities are centralized and optimized here.

Interested? Discover the job details below:

Key responsibilities

• End-to-End closing: Taking full responsibility for the timely and accurate month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closings from A to Z for your assigned international entities.

• Financial integrity: Ensuring financial reliability by performing complex balance sheet analyses and in-depth reconciliations.

• Reporting: Delivering accurate internal and external financial reports on time, in compliance with both local regulations (BE GAAP) and IFRS.

• Audit & compliance: Serving as the central operational point of contact for both internal and external auditors, and proactively safeguarding internal compliance controls.

• Process optimization: Actively contributing to the continuous improvement and streamlining of accounting processes within the Regional SSC, and proactively sharing knowledge within the team.

• Business partnering: Maintaining close internal contacts with the controlling team, which provides support during the closing process and performs deep-dive analyses.

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Qualifications

• Education: Minimum of a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, or a related field.

• Experience: Dynamic accountant with strong experience in General Ledger (GL) accounting, preferably gained in a complex, changing, or international corporate environment.

• Knowledge & systems:

  • In-depth and proven knowledge of BE GAAP and IFRS.

  • Excellent systems knowledge: experience with SAP S/4HANA and Excel is an absolute must. Knowledge of Power BI is a strong asset.

• Languages: Professional proficiency in English (written and spoken).

• Essentials:

  • Autonomous, proactive, able to structure your own work, and only satisfied when the result is delivered.

  • Resilient, thriving in a dynamic, transforming environment where structures and processes evolve rapidly.

  • Strong, direct, and open communicator regarding what goes well, but also brave enough to discuss mistakes to learn together.

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What's in it for you?

• Salary: Negotiable, depending on experience.

• Company car with charging card (BE/LUX coverage).

• Fringe benefits: Meal vouchers (€8/day), Eco-vouchers, top-tier DKV hospitalization insurance (with the option to include family members), and a solid group insurance plan.

• Flexible working hours.

• Leave entitlement: 33 vacation days + 1 extra vacation day for every 5 years of seniority.

• Work From Home Policy: Currently 2 days/week WFH (evolving to 1 day per week in the future).

• Career Growth: The client has a dedicated International Mobility Team that actively guides transfers and offers great internal career paths (e.g., towards Controlling).