Accountant

The Job

Our Finance team is looking to be supported by a reliable Accountant to manage the day to day running of the Accounts Department. At Believe, we aim to provide quality services to both our internal and external customers. This is a fantastic opportunity for a candidate who loves music, enjoys a variety of duties and is willing to work as part of a team to progress in Finance. 

Your missions are: 

Purchase Ledger 

  • Set up and maintain New Accounts  
  • Code and process Purchase Invoices/Credit Notes 
  • Prepare Payments List 
  • Post Bank transactions and match to invoices 
  • Post Credit Card Transaction 
  • Run detailed Creditors report and reconcile Accounts  
  • Prepare and post staff expenses report  

Sales Ledger 

  • Set up and maintain New Accounts  
  • Code and process Sales Invoices/Credit Notes  
  • Post Bank transactions and match to invoices  
  • Run detailed Debtors report and reconcile Accounts  

Monthly Routine 

  • Perform Bank + Credit Card Reconciliation 
  • Assist in management of expenses by project 
  • Process Journals entries for Accruals/Prepayments 
  • Process Journals for possible mis-posted transaction 
  • Manage and process Cash transactions and reconcile 
  • Entering postings following central team requests
  • Booking of Fixed Assets and Depreciation
  • Assist with reconciling P & L accounts  
  • Manage / Assist in monthly closing processes
  • VAT liquidation and proper maintenance of VAT registers
  • Collaborate with Tax consultant for monthly / quarterly declarations (i.e. Intrastat / Quarterly VAT declarations)
  • Prepare needed SDI documentation (i.e. monthly xml uploads)
  • Prepare Intercompany reconciliations
  • Prepare centrally driven dedicated reporting

Year End Routine 

  • Assist with final reconciliation and adjustments to all accounts 
  • Assist with preparation of schedules for Year End Audit 
  • Manage Journals, Vat register, Social Company Books review, printout and archive

Others 

  • Complete and submit monthly, quarterly and annual statistical surveys in line with the Group
  • Ensure that all necessary supporting accounting documents are requested, collected, and compiled, archived 
  • Checks correctness of admin contracts in compliance with internal compliance, commercial conditions and local legislation
  • Collaborate with central IS team to ensure improvements on the ERP software to better comply to local tax and accounting rules (i.e. for VAT registers, xml files for SDI) 
  • Collaborate with central IS team to ensure improvements on the management of expense refunds (new tool development);
  • Be accountant for checks, reports, needed uploads, on the internal distribution tools with focus on physical distribution and neighboring rights (after dedicated training)
  • Collaborate with internal functions to monitor cash forecast and payment processes
  • Collaborate with central functions and finance manager for other finance tool implementations, dedicated reporting
  • Any other ad-hoc duties

    Qualifications

    • At least 5 years working experience within an Accounts Department 
    • Be self-motivated and able to work with minimal supervision  
    • Strong time management skills with ability to meet deadlines  
    • Have a flexible approach to change and work proactively to develop processes  
    • Experience working with Sage X3 or other Accounting software is highly desirable 
    • Experience with Microsoft Applications including minimum intermediary level with Excel 
    • Ability to work logically and methodically with attention to details and flexibility to adapt to a constantly evolving business
    • Be able to communicate with all levels of stakeholders  
    • Team player with a willingness to assist others to achieve company goals
    • Positive attitude and enthusiasm 
    • Fluent English  

    Additional Information

    SET THE TONE WITH US
    We have two hearts at Believe – our People and our Artists.
    We believe in THE POWER OF OUR PEOPLE, who grow every day to develop their potential… We aim to provide our Believers with the best environment to thrive.

    ROCK THE JOB   

    • Tailor-made training and coaching program
    • Remote working policy
    • A well being program
    • Additional health insurance
    • Access to Eutelmed, a digital mental health and well-being platform that allows you to speak with an experienced psychologist
    • Supplementary pension plan
    • Ticket meal (€7 per day)

    SING IN HARMONY
    Ambassador groups to engage on reducing Believe’s carbon and environmental footprint and improve gender equity.

    Believe is committed to ensuring equal opportunities in employment, regardless of origin, sex, morals, sexual orientation, gender, age, family status pregnancy, race, political opinions, trade union activities, religious beliefs, physical appearance, family name, place of residence, state of health, or disability.

    – Applications should be sent in English

    Data Analyst Specialist

    The Job

    Reporting to our Sales Strategy and Operations Manager, and in dotted line to our Managing Director, your objective is to reinforce the company’s Analytics function by delivering complex data-driven insights to the leadership team to guide business decisions. You will also directly collaborate with the global team of Data Scientists and Business Intelligence experts, and act as a local owner of strategic initiatives around Data Analytics.

    Hence, you will manage every step of the Analytics processes, including database building and maintenance, querying and pipelines creation, statistics computations with programming languages, and data visualization.

    Also, you will use your passion and knowledge of statistics models to advise central team on relevant use cases for applying Machine Learning to the Music Market.

    Occasionally, you will be supporting other departments in elaborating ad-hoc analysis and developing sales and operational tools to improve sales productivity and pursue operational excellence.

    Responsibilities
    As a Believe Data Analyst, you will be bearing the following responsibilities:

    • Build, maintain and continuously improve databases incorporating company, market and industry data
    • Elaborate and interrogate datasets using SQL, while questioning and improving data accuracy
    • Develop multi-source data frameworks and ETL pipelines to enrich data and automate processes
    • Run complex computations, perform statistical analysis and use results to improve models
    • Create reports and dashboards to communicate findings to stakeholders
    • Propose relevant use cases to help Central Functions deploy Machine Learning models tailored to our business objectives
    • Collaborate with other departments to map business requirements and identify areas for data-driven improvements
    • Develop business tools using multiple solutions (i.e. VBA, Access, Power Apps)

    Qualifications

    You are an ideal candidate if you fulfill the following requirements:

    • Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field
    • At least 1-2 year working experience in the field of data science, data engineering or data analytics, possibly for data consultancy or tech companies
    • Strong knowledge of relational databases and querying languages (SQL)
    • Strong coding knowledge and mastery of at least one programming language (Python, R, JavaScript)
    • Strong knowledge of at least one BI & Data Visualization tool (Power Bi, Tableau, Microstrategy, Qlik)
    • Experience with Snowflake or similar cloud data warehousing platforms will be considered a strong asset
    • Ability to liaise both with technical/product team and business peers
    • Good communication skills as essential lever to allow oneself and others to understand information accurately and quickly
    • Collaboration skills to successfully work toward realizing the common goal with other teams
    • Curiosity & creativity are essential in your role to generate new insights that are always timely, accurate and relevant to the business
    • You are passionate about the music industry and have ideally proven 1-2 year work experience in the field

    Additional Information

    SET THE TONE WITH US
    We have two hearts at Believe – our People and our Artists.
    We believe in THE POWER OF OUR PEOPLE, who grow every day to develop their potential… We aim to provide our Believers with the best environment to thrive.

    ROCK THE JOB   

    • Tailor-made training and coaching program
    • Remote working policy
    • A well being program
    • Additional health insurance
    • Access to Eutelmed, a digital mental health and well-being platform that allows you to speak with an experienced psychologist
    • Supplementary pension plan
    • Ticket meal (€7 per day)

    SING IN HARMONY
    Ambassador groups to engage on reducing Believe’s carbon and environmental footprint and improve gender equity.

    Believe is committed to ensuring equal opportunities in employment, regardless of origin, sex, morals, sexual orientation, gender, age, family status pregnancy, race, political opinions, trade union activities, religious beliefs, physical appearance, family name, place of residence, state of health, or disability.

    This site is registered on wpml.org as a development site.