Senior Accountant

<p>Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count? </p><p></p><p>Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the 7th largest financial group in the world. Across the globe, we’re 160,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.</p><p></p><p>With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.</p><p></p><p>Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.</p><p>Would you like to work for one of the World's largest banks in an exciting, dynamic and international environment? </p><p></p><p>We are currently recruiting for a Senior Accountant for our Finance Division in Amsterdam.</p><p></p><p>MUFG Bank Europe N.V. (MBE) is a fully-owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the largest ranked Financial Groups in the world in terms of assets. A world-class set of businesses and more than 180,000 employees in 50 markets. MUFG offers stability in an ever-changing market, providing services to high-profile clients worldwide.<br/><br/>For more than 50 years MBE offers corporate and investment banking services to both Japanese and non-Japanese corporate customers in The Netherlands and, through its branches. The goal is to be among the top performing foreign-owned banks operating in The Netherlands, providing value-added banking services and excellent operations, fulfilling both Japanese and Global Multinational Corporate customers' needs.<br/><br/>At MBE we are committed to contributing to a more sustainable future. Thus, we will encourage you to embed environmental, social &amp; governance (ESG) factors in your everyday work and in our culture.</p><p>The MBE subsidiary based in The Netherlands is a network of branches (Germany Branch (Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Munich), Spain Branch (Madrid, Barcelona), Belgium Branch (Brussels), Austria Branch (Vienna)), managed from Amsterdam.</p><p></p><p>Your impact at MUFG</p><p></p><p>As a Senior Accountant, you will play an important role in the Headquarter of MBE Finance responsible on all accounting activities and processes to ensure delivery of accurate and concise financial reporting of high quality, support the Head of Accounting and the Accounting Team. MBE is one of important subsidiary within MUFG financial group, and the position will cover the responsibilities of Financial accounting of JGAAP (MUFG group reporting purpose) and IFRS (MBE local reporting purpose) across MBE offices in EU countries.</p><p></p><p>Function positioning</p><p></p><p> Overall the team is responsible for the following. :</p><ul><li>Accounting for Japanese GAAP and IFRS</li><li>Reporting towards MUFG Group</li></ul><p></p><p>The senior Accountant is expected to work independently on the more complex accounting matters. As well as coaching and developing the junior members within the team (total team 8-9 FTE, including VP Accounting and Head of Accounting). The Accounting Department has a central place within MBE and MBE Finance. Hence the Senior Accountant also work actively together with other countries (mainly Germany, United Kingdom) and other departments (Operations, HR, Statutory, Management &amp; Regulatory Reporting) on their processes and requirements for accurate, completely and timely closing. In addition the Senior Accountant is contributing to effective procedures which are properly documented and has a mindset to contribute, change, limit manual efforts and make use of automated solutions.</p><p></p><p>The function forms part of Accounting Team in Finance Division, and reporting directly into the Head of Accounting and resides in the CFO domain under the Head of Finance.</p><p></p><p>The role includes the following:</p><ul><li>Monthly, quarterly and yearly closing of JGAAP and IFRS</li><li>Motivate colleagues to perform tasks, their development and engage in new activities (including sufficient back-up).</li><li>Advise/deliver Accounting solution on new business or product, and implement the process</li><li>Periodic update of process manuals, risks and controls</li><li>Maintenance of General Ledger integrity and granularity (GL accounts)</li><li>Maintenance of multi-GAAP Accounting Hub</li><li>Pro-active initiation of improvement in processes, system set-up and control</li><li>Analysis, execution and documentation of (complex / ad-hoc) accounting questions</li><li>Review of procedures performed by team members and approval thereof</li><li>Group reporting (JGAAP/US GAAP) in collaboration with MUFG colleagues</li><li>Monthly and quarterly explanation of