Your responsibilities:

In this role you will coordinate the preparation of the consolidated financial statements;
implement IFRS standards and be a main point of contact for IFRS-related queries; develop and maintain the finance manual and chart of accounts and ensure consistent compliance with IFRS and Hitachi Corporate accounting policies; be responsible for ensuring that all controls are adhered to under the internal control framework and J-SOX.

• General accounting – month-end and quarter-end close, consolidation of Hitachi Europe subsidiaries and branches, review of actual results

• Group reporting to Japan

• Consolidation master data maintenance, including GL maintenance

• Balance sheet reconciliation preparation and review where appropriate

• Investigating accounting queries from Hitachi Europe Country financial controllers and finance managers

• Ensuring compliance with IFRS and Hitachi Accounting Policies as part of the monthly closing process

• IFRS 15 revenue recognition: contract review, implementation of control and ensuring appropriate revenue recognition.

• Supporting internal and external audit review

• Preparation of statutory accounts, including ledger bridge

• Supporting requests from the tax team and other departments

• Ad hoc transactions and supporting RTR projects

• Working closely with the country financial controllers/finance managers