LET’S TALK ABOUT THE JOB!

You report to the Real Estate Accounting & Reporting Manager and will service Shurgard’s development and construction businesses in Europe and other financial administrative services. You will be responsible for maintaining company’s Fixed Asset register, preparation of monthly closings on utilities, repair, maintenance and capital expenditures.

You will have contact with Real Estate team (Construction, Facility, Design, Development etc.) as well as with their suppliers.

LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES!

About your Accounting and Finance responsibilities: 

• You support in the daily administration on the invoice and purchase order cycle for maintenance, repair, and capital expenditures; Review the allocations and posting of invoices ensuring basic controls.
• You track the company's repair, maintenance and capital expenditure against budget
• You are responsible for monthly closings on utilities, repair, maintenance and capital expenditures
• You manage the capitalization and depreciation process and related reconciliations
• You maintain company’s Fixed asset register
• You ensure strict compliance with IFRS and local GAAPs.
• You participate in insurance claims management
• You support the (internal) audit process
• You ensure the preparations of budgets
• You participate in ESG reporting preparation
• You support the execution of mergers, acquisitions, and the integration as necessary.
• You offer administrative assistance in various ad-hoc projects

About your process and systems responsibilities: 

• You implement procedures and systems necessary to maintain proper records and to afford adequate accounting controls and procedures for all business cycles in accordance with Shurgard’s standards.
• You implement the roll out of various control systems in your market(s).
• You contribute to European projects: systems, integration of new entities, IFRS migration, maintenance of policies and procedures.
• You support the Accounting Manager with special projects and workflow process improvements.
• You ensure the application of and compliance with control processes.

About your people responsibilities: 

• You collaborate with the other finance department colleagues to support overall department goals and objectives.
• You provide training to new and existing staff as needed.

LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR SKILLS!

• You act as a change agent, “selling” and implementing change effectively.
• You recognize commercial opportunities in own work as they arise.
• You proactively look for ways to increase customer satisfaction and ensure a customer-oriented attitude in the team.
• You drive team action to achieve business results.
• You effectively influence others and gain collaboration by persuasive two-way communications.
• You prioritize own and team’s work, are decisive and take initiative beyond call of duty.
• You promote co-operation within own team and between teams, and act as an example of effective teamwork.

LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR PROFILE!

• You have a bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or Economics.
• You have at least 3 to 4 years of experience in Accounting.
• Experience in Fixed assets is a plus.
• Experience with IFRS and local GAAP is an asset.
• You are fluent in English and mother tongue or “native” level of Dutch and/or French. Any other market’s language is considered a plus.
• You have a working knowledge of Microsoft applications and an advanced level in Excel.  

And colleagues? Well, they are very important to you too. You like sharing and collaborating. You want to contribute to a fun and constructive work climate. And needless to say, you love to learn and to develop your knowledge and skills.