Sr. Accounting Specialist

**About LEAR**:
Lear Corporation is looking for an Accounting Manager Europe & Africa (M/F/d) to join our Controllers Office team.

The Accounting Manager will be based in Oberding, the Munich Headquarters and works for all European & African plants including Seating and E-Systems.

With more than 650 employees, the Lear Munich Headquarter, close to Munich Airport, is the Competence Centre for automotive seat development in Europe.
In addition to members of the Controllers Office for Europe & Africa, the Sales and Engineering teams, central functions, such as the Purchasing Division, division of JIT’s operations, the Seating Finance, Legal and Human Resources are also located here.

**About the role**:
Key objective will be Europe-wide and principally relate to accounting and internal control initiative across the region:

- Improve quality of US reporting through standardization of accounting regionally
- Development and delivery of guidance, communications and training materials for accounting hot topics and emerging issues
- Support Balance Sheet Reviews through quality reviews ahead of internal audit, external audit and reporting
- Support during the implementation phase of new plants and entities on accounting processes and ERP Systems
- Support SOX Monitoring process
- Ad hoc analyses and support, as required

**Your qualification**:

- University graduate required, any degree
- Multi-year accounting experience is required, ideally combined with internal control background
- Preferably working experience from the Big 4
- Experience of providing accounting support on ERP implementation
- Open to 25% travel max
- Strong English language skills and German is advantageous