Accountant (English and French speaking)

Job Description

Your role

This role is an integral part of Digital Realty's EMEA accounting team and will play a pivotal part in achieving the EMEA team finance objectives and deliverables monthly. The primary responsibility of the position is to support the R2R Manager in the management of a portfolio of property & management company ledgers and legal entities across Europe for monthly group reporting under US GAAP, including audits and local compliance requirements. He or she will also oversee the local French statutory GAAP and local French tax returns under the supervision of R2R Manager.

• Participate to the monthly, quarterly & annual group reporting under US GAAP and local French GAAP for a portfolio of entities & property set of books.
• Participation in ownership of various finance functional areas for several properties which feed into the set of books, including Fixed Assets, Inter company, AR, Bank & Cash, AP, VAT, etc.
• Work in a team of accountants & assistant accountants with responsibilities across other functional areas, such as Construction Accounting, Treasury, Tax, SOX, etc.
• Review & process all transactions for your ledgers. Prepare & review all balance sheet accounts as part of month end close controls, including pro-active follow-up to remove reconciling items.
• Take responsibility & ownership for local statutory audits for France under the supervision of the R2R Manager France.
• Be a trusted colleague to internal teams such as asset management, sales, FP&A and site operations; as well as manage third-party service providers supporting local compliance & tax filings.
• Important contribution in the accounting and internal control systems and be proactive in identifying improvements focused on finance operational excellence.
• Embrace opportunities to be involved in integration and other finance projects.
• Actively seek out ad-hoc & non-routine tasks / projects to dynamically progress your career at Digital Realty

What you'll need

• Qualified accountant
• 3-5 years' experience in similar roles, in a multi-national environment
• Knowledge and experience in all the French taxes & statutory accounting (calculation, tax returns)
• Experience of French GAAP & US GAAP
• Strong systems knowledge and intermediate/advanced Excel skills are required
• Fluent in English and French

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company's global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx™) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. Join us and you'll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you'll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We'll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.