Avolta is the world’s leading travel experience player. With a traveler-centric philosophy and a geographically diverse network, the travel retail and F&B company addresses the needs of up to 2.3 billion passengers each year, with 5,500 outlets in more than 75 countries across six continents. Guided by their Destination 2027 strategy and boosted by their recent combination with travel F&B giant Autogrill, the company is well positioned to realise their ambition to create a Travel Experience Revolution through their many locations at airports, motorways, cruise lines, seaports and railway stations amongst others.
PURPOSE OF ROLE
Take a key role in the consolidation of the group financial statements and European/US sub-consolidations as well as the presentation and reporting of consolidated financial statements according to external or internal requirements.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Management activities
- Supervision of the monthly reporting process.
- Participate in supervision of the global reporting activities.
- Support the external audit process, liaising with the auditors on key topics.
- Assist in the management of resources allocated to reporting ensuring the timely filing and distribution of all due reports at group and sub-group level.
- Assist in the coordination of the preparation of the financial part of the Annual Report.
- Assist in the coordination of all financial reporting (internal and external) for the entire group.
- Coordinate with external consultants the maintenance and development of the consolidation applications.
Functional activities
Ensuring the monthly consolidation activities are booked properly:
- Capital consolidation
- Dividends matching
- Intercompany matching
- Business combinations and disposals of entities
- Standard consolidation entries
- Participate in the preparation of the monthly management pack, especially relating to equity and business combinations
- Perform consolidation on group level as well as sub-consolidations for Europe and US
- Support the preparation of presentations for management
- Perform ad hoc analyses to ensure the external publications are up to date and in line with applicable standards, regulations and current reporting trends
- Key user of the external reporting systems (Group Reporting)
- Provide guidance and ensure compliance with IFRS requirements on group level
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
- Experience in a consolidation team or 5 years of experience in a senior financial position of an international business, proven success actions in a senior advisory role or in an international audit company with a high interest in consolidation.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Administration
- Strong analytical and communication skills
- IT experience:
* MS-Office
* Consolidation Software
* Reporting tools
* Command IFRS or US GAAP
* Corporate law (international)