<p><b>Function</b></p><p></p>Finance<p></p><h1><b>Our Company</b><br> </h1><p>We’re Hitachi Digital, a company at the forefront of digital transformation and the fastest growing division of Hitachi Group. We’re crucial to the company’s strategy and ambition to become a premier global player in the massive and fast-moving digital transformation market.<br> </p><p>Our group companies, including GlobalLogic, Hitachi Digital Services, Hitachi Vantara and more, offer comprehensive services that span the entire digital lifecycle, from initial idea to full-scale operation and the infrastructure to run it on. Hitachi Digital represents One Hitachi, integrating domain knowledge and digital capabilities, and harnessing the power of the entire portfolio of services, technologies, and partnerships, to accelerate synergy creation and make real-world impact for our customers and society as a whole.<br> </p><p>Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to unleash a digital future. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.</p><p></p><h1><b>Job description</b></h1><p></p><h3>1. General Ledger Management</h3><ul><li>Journal Entries (JEs): Preparing and posting manual journal entries for transactions that aren't automated ( adjusting entries).</li><li>Accruals &amp; Prepayments: Calculating and posting accruals (expenses incurred but not yet invoiced) and prepayments (expenses paid in advance, like insurance or rent).</li><li>GL Master Data: Creating and maintaining the Chart of Accounts (adding or blocking GL accounts).</li><li>We are seeking a candidate with at least a <b>communicative level of German</b> who will communicate daily with German colleagues on financial topics.<br> </li></ul><h3>2. The Month-End / Year-end Close </h3><ul><li>Closing Schedule: Managing the timeline to ensure all modules (AP, AR, Fixed Assets) are closed on time.</li><li>Trial Balance Review: Reviewing the Trial Balance for errors, unusual balances, or misclassifications before the books are locked.<br> </li></ul><h3>3. Balance Sheet Reconciliations</h3><ul><li>Account Reconciliations: Substantiating balance sheet accounts (Bank, Taxes, Accruals, Equity) to ensure the ending balance is correct.</li><li>Open Item Management: Investigating and clearing old items sitting in suspense accounts or clearing accounts.<br> </li></ul><h3>4. Fixed Assets (FA) Accounting</h3><ul><li>Capitalization: Recording new asset purchases (Additions).</li><li>Depreciation: Ensuring the monthly depreciation runs correctly based on the asset’s useful life.</li><li>Disposals &amp; Impairments: Removing sold/scrapped assets from the books and checking if assets have lost value.<br> </li></ul><h3>5. Intercompany (IC) Accounting</h3><ul><li>IC Invoicing and Matching</li><li>Eliminations: Preparing data so that internal "sales" between branches are canceled out during consolidation (so the group doesn't look like it's making profit from itself).<br> </li></ul><h3>6. Statutory &amp; Financial Reporting</h3><ul><li>Financial Statements: Preparing the P&amp;L (Profit &amp; Loss), Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow statements.</li><li>Management Reporting: Providing "Managerial Reports" (like the ones you mentioned for your audit) with commentary on budget vs. actuals.</li><li>Tax Reporting:  supporting VAT, CIT, and other statutory filings.<br> </li></ul><h3>7. Audit &amp; Compliance</h3><ul><li>Audit Support: Providing the "lead schedules" and supporting documentation for the year-end audit.</li><li>Internal Controls: Ensuring compliance with policies (e.g., J-SOX) to prevent fraud or reporting errors.<br><br><b><span>#LI-MS3</span></b></li></ul><p></p><h1><b>About us</b><br> </h1><p>We’re a global, 1000-stong, diverse team of professional experts, promoting and delivering Social Innovation through our One Hitachi initiative (OT x IT x Product) and working on projects that have a real-world impact. We’re curious, passionate and empowered, blending our legacy of 110 years of innovation with our shaping our future. Here you’re not just another employee; you’re part of a tradition of excellence and a community working towards creating a digital future.</p><p></p><p></p><h1><span style="color:#000000;"><b>Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives</b></span></h1><p></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.</span></p><p></p><h1><b>How we look after you</b></h1><p></p><p>We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.</p><p></p><p>We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.</p>

<p>Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader that is advancing a sustainable energy future for all. We serve customers in the utility, industry and infrastructure sectors with innovative solutions and services across the value chain. Together with customers and partners, we pioneer technologies and enable the digital transformation required to accelerate the energy transition towards a carbon-neutral future. We are advancing the world&rsquo;s energy system to become more sustainable, flexible and secure whilst balancing social, environmental and economic value. Hitachi Energy has a proven track record and unparalleled installed base in more than 140 countries.</p>

Senior Accountant – RTR (German Speaker)

<p><b>Function</b></p><p></p>Finance<p></p><h1><b>Our Company</b><br /> </h1><p>We’re Hitachi Digital, a company at the forefront of digital transformation and the fastest growing division of Hitachi Group. We’re crucial to the company’s strategy and ambition to become a premier global player in the massive and fast-moving digital transformation market.<br /> </p><p>Our group companies, including GlobalLogic, Hitachi Digital Services, Hitachi Vantara and more, offer comprehensive services that span the entire digital lifecycle, from initial idea to full-scale operation and the infrastructure to run it on. Hitachi Digital represents One Hitachi, integrating domain knowledge and digital capabilities, and harnessing the power of the entire portfolio of services, technologies, and partnerships, to accelerate synergy creation and make real-world impact for our customers and society as a whole.<br /> </p><p>Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to unleash a digital future. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.</p><p></p><h1><b>Job description</b></h1><p></p><h3>1. General Ledger Management</h3><ul><li>Journal Entries (JEs): Preparing and posting manual journal entries for transactions that aren't automated ( adjusting entries).</li><li>Accruals &amp; Prepayments: Calculating and posting accruals (expenses incurred but not yet invoiced) and prepayments (expenses paid in advance, like insurance or rent).</li><li>GL Master Data: Creating and maintaining the Chart of Accounts (adding or blocking GL accounts).</li><li>We are seeking a candidate with at least a <b>communicative level of German</b> who will communicate daily with German colleagues on financial topics.<br /> </li></ul><h3>2. The Month-End / Year-end Close </h3><ul><li>Closing Schedule: Managing the timeline to ensure all modules (AP, AR, Fixed Assets) are closed on time.</li><li>Trial Balance Review: Reviewing the Trial Balance for errors, unusual balances, or misclassifications before the books are locked.<br /> </li></ul><h3>3. Balance Sheet Reconciliations</h3><ul><li>Account Reconciliations: Substantiating balance sheet accounts (Bank, Taxes, Accruals, Equity) to ensure the ending balance is correct.</li><li>Open Item Management: Investigating and clearing old items sitting in suspense accounts or clearing accounts.<br /> </li></ul><h3>4. Fixed Assets (FA) Accounting</h3><ul><li>Capitalization: Recording new asset purchases (Additions).</li><li>Depreciation: Ensuring the monthly depreciation runs correctly based on the asset’s useful life.</li><li>Disposals &amp; Impairments: Removing sold/scrapped assets from the books and checking if assets have lost value.<br /> </li></ul><h3>5. Intercompany (IC) Accounting</h3><ul><li>IC Invoicing and Matching</li><li>Eliminations: Preparing data so that internal "sales" between branches are canceled out during consolidation (so the group doesn't look like it's making profit from itself).<br /> </li></ul><h3>6. Statutory &amp; Financial Reporting</h3><ul><li>Financial Statements: Preparing the P&amp;L (Profit &amp; Loss), Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow statements.</li><li>Management Reporting: Providing "Managerial Reports" (like the ones you mentioned for your audit) with commentary on budget vs. actuals.</li><li>Tax Reporting:  supporting VAT, CIT, and other statutory filings.<br /> </li></ul><h3>7. Audit &amp; Compliance</h3><ul><li>Audit Support: Providing the "lead schedules" and supporting documentation for the year-end audit.</li><li>Internal Controls: Ensuring compliance with policies (e.g., J-SOX) to prevent fraud or reporting errors.<br /><br /><b><span>#LI-MS3</span></b></li></ul><p></p><h1><b>About us</b><br /> </h1><p>We’re a global, 1000-stong, diverse team of professional experts, promoting and delivering Social Innovation through our One Hitachi initiative (OT x IT x Product) and working on projects that have a real-world impact. We’re curious, passionate and empowered, blending our legacy of 110 years of innovation with our shaping our future. Here you’re not just another employee; you’re part of a tradition of excellence and a community working towards creating a digital future.</p><p></p><p></p><h1><span><b>Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives</b></span></h1><p></p><p><span>Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.</span></p><p></p><p><span>We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.</span></p><p></p><h1><b>How we look after you</b></h1><p></p><p>We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.</p><p></p><p>We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.</p>

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