General Accounting Partner

Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
This role exists to oversee the regulatory compliance and act as business partner ensuring financial decisions align with business growth, but their effectiveness depends on strong communication and trust with key business functions and other departments.
Responsible for ensuring that the underlying company policies and procedures comply with the various regulatory laws and standards including tax, corporate, bank and insurance requirements. Labor/employment regulations related to compensation rules will be handled separately by People Team except for tax on compensation and benefits.
This role is the single point of contact for all accounting and compliance related activities for the designated entity.
The Regional and GSSC Finance Teams will maintain ownership of execution and implementation of the company policies e.g. Treasury and Accounts Payable-related policies are coordinated with ICA to ensure compliance requirements are fulfilled.
Role accountabilities:

• Collaborating with business leads to align financial goals with business strategy while ensuring compliance requirements are met
• Provide financial and operational insights into business performance and steer towards performance targets.
• Support budgeting, forecasting and planning process.
• Collaborate and work with business teams on project bids / Project reviews and help to make data-driven decisions.
• Reviews and evaluates company policies and procedures to identify any potential risks/non-compliance issues and recommends necessary changes/improvements.
• Liaise with legal counsel to ensure compliance with any statutory reporting obligations and procedures.
• Liaise with necessary government agencies and stakeholders as required when lodging any statutory reporting documents.
• Monitor and track the Tax Returns and Compliance Reports prepared by the Dedicated support to ensure its timely submission and report out to management any issues, risks and exposures.
  
• Ensures adequate insurance coverage/protection of property against all property risks
• Review and analyze the preparation of the tax calculations/provisions, reconciliations, and maintenance of tax balances in the books including any financial reports that the bank (creditor) may require.
• Minimize tax liabilities through informed application of tax laws and regulations.
• Perform spot checks to validate and review that processes are in place to ensure transactions are executed as expected.
• Understand process flows of the business to make sure they understand the tax, risk components and proactively influence business process changes
• Project manage tax and financial audit engagement and liaise requirements necessary to complete the audit. For clarity, the Regional Finance and GSSC Team maintain support and prepare necessary schedules and Country BU Controller to support on operational matters, as necessary.
• Maintain updated Transfer Pricing documentation for every calendar year
• Create Master Intercompany Service Agreement and other necessary intercompany agreements between IBI IND and other affiliates
• Advise People Service Payroll team on tax implications of secondments from IBI IND to other countries / regions
• Advise Group Tax of local tax implications of policy changes offshore (from affiliates)
• With support of the In Country Travel Coordinator, monitors incoming visitors to the country and foreign work assignments including length of stay to avoid creating a permanent establishment or personal tax burden.
• Adhoc tasks as applicable to ensure that the country is compliant with changing regulations
  

Qualifications & Experience:

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  Chartered Accountant or equivalent with minimum 7 years of post-qualification experience
• Post Chartered Accountant qualification professional experience (7 years or more) in finance, controlling with strong tax/compliance background.
• Experience of working in a medium/large multi-national organization would be added advantage.
• Able to think, analyze, consider the broader context to develop pragmatic solutions
• Proactive and capable of working with multi-cultural/country teams
• Able to manage relationships and senior stakeholders.
• Able to work to deadlines and adapt to changing conditions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder relationship building skills/ collaborative.
• Strong planning, organizational and project management skills.
• Excel & ERP proficiency will be a plus.
  

Why Arcadis
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. Its why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
Youll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, youll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why equality and inclusion is at the forefront of all our activities. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer; women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, caste, creed, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, and gender identity.