Senior Accountant

Avient Corporation (NYSE: AVNT) provides specialized and sustainable material solutions that transform customer challenges into opportunities, bringing new products to life for a better world. Examples include:

- Unique technologies that improve the recyclability of products and enable recycled content to be incorporated, thus advancing a more circular economy
- Light-weighting solutions that replace heavier traditional materials like metal, glass and wood, which can improve fuel efficiency in all modes of transportation and reduce carbon footprint
- Sustainable infrastructure solutions that increase energy efficiency, renewable energy, natural resource conservation and fiber optic / 5G network accessibility

**Job Summary**

The Senior Accountant plays a key role on the level of German legal entity, is part of European finance team, leads month-end close process, reconciliation reporting, month end variance analysis, audits and other adhoc tasks. This position reports directly to European Lead Regional Controller, collaboration with corporate functions like treasury, tax and legal is essential.

**Essential Functions**
Accountabilities
- Ensuring the consistent integrity of information, in a timely manner.
- Compliance with internal and external accounting policies, procedures and legislation.

**Responsibilities**:

- Prepares and files annual financial statements under German GAAP (HGB)
- Leads external and internal audits to include providing detailed documentation for audit requests
- Works with external consultants on annual income tax return preparation
- Monthly income tax calculation, quarterly income tax provision - current and deferred taxes - internal tax reporting
- Responsible for the month end close process (accounting part)
- Completion of monthly VAT returns and intrastat reports
- Completion of national statistics reports
- Prepares and posts recurring and standard manual journals
- Monthly review of cost centres with the business unit finance manager to ensure accuracy of financial data
- Reconciliation of intercompany balances
- Completion of balance sheet reconciliations in line with prescribed templates and frequencies
- Ownership of the fixed asset process and being the main point of contact. To include capitalisation and ensure CIP is monitored in a timely manner
- Managing the liquidity flow for German legal entity, collaborating with Corporate Treasury
- Prepares monthly cash flows to agreed deadlines
- Other projects and general office duties as required

**Qualifications & Experience**

Essential
- German language knowledge on professional level
- Bachelor - Accounting, Finance or equivalent
- At least 3 years’ experience working within industry as Senior Accountant (Bilanzbuchhalter), 7 years in accounting in total
- Strong team player
- Ability to work to deadlines and efficiently
- Ability to build relationships with stakeholders in a virtual environment
- Self-reliant and self-motivated
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong Excel skills
- Strong SAP knowledge

Desired
- SOX compliance
- IFRS

Competencies
- Customer Focus
- Action Orientated
- Instils Trust
- Demonstrates Self-Awareness
- Collaborates
- Communicates Effectively
- Being Resilient
- Situational Adaptability

**WHY AVIENT**:
At Avient, we strive for a culture of trust and engagement. Our associates are leading company initiatives such as Lead by Women, HYPE (Harnessing Young Professionals), Pride at Avient and Embrace to advance diversity in professional and personal development. We also provide our associates with robust development programs such as Avient Academy, Lean Six Sigma, and various leadership workshops to allow for career growth in a variety of ways. With workplace flexibility, health and wellness programs, and paid time off for community service, we are committed to building upon our positive momentum.
At Avient, we believe diversity of ideas and backgrounds gives us the creativity to be successful in a rapidly changing world. In support of this, we stress equality of opportunity for all qualified individuals in accordance with applicable laws. Decisions in hiring, promotion, development, compensation and advancement are based upon non-discriminatory factors such as, for example, qualifications, abilities, experience, and performance