General Accounting Partner

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

The General Accounting Partner is responsible for overseeing the financial operations and ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial information. This role involves managing the accounting team, developing financial strategies, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, and providing strategic financial insights to support business decisions.

The role is reporting to General Accounting Director – Global Design and dotted line to ROM BU Controller.

Role accountabilities:

• Preparation of the tax declarations (payroll taxes, VAT, VAT returns, SAF-T reporting), and maintenance of tax balances in the books including any other reports that our government may require. The final review and sign off will remain with RO BU Controller. 


• Monitor and track the Tax Returns and Compliance Reports prepared to ensure its timely submission and report out to management any issues, risks and exposures.


• Perform spot checks to validate and review that processes are in place to ensure transactions are executed as expected. 


• Understand process flows of the business to make sure they understand the tax, risk components and proactively influence business process changes


• Project manages tax and financial audit engagement and prepare all requirements necessary to complete the audit. For clarity, the final review and discussion with the tax and financial audit will remain with ROM BU Controller, including the Corporate Income tax and financial statements preparation and presentation to the Global Tax and BOD of GEC RO.


• Maintain updated Transfer Pricing documentation for every calendar year in collaboration with Global Tax and TP team (final review will remain with ROM BU Controller)


• Assist for Master Intercompany Service Agreement and other necessary intercompany agreements between GEC RO and other affiliates. The final review will be conducted by ROM BU Controller.


• Advise People – Service Payroll team on tax implications of secondments from GEC RO to other countries / regions based on the discussion and review performed by ROM BU Controller.


• With the support of the In Country Travel Coordinator, it monitors incoming visitors to the country including length of stay to avoid creating a permanent establishment or personal tax burden.


• Project manage the reconciliation process between Winmentor (Romanian software for statutory accounting) and ERP (the global system used for consolidation)


• Project manages the relationship with Winmentor to align with any new changes in tax laws and other regulations to ensure compliance and avoid penalties.


• Overseeing the payroll process, payroll tax computation and presenting the final payroll statement to ROM BU Controller for payments


• Initiation of all payments within the company and sending for final approval to the BU Controller.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Significant professional experience (10 years or more) in finance.


• Experience of working in a medium/large organization in a senior role


• Able to think, analyze, consider the broader context to develop pragmatic solutions


• Proactive and can work independently 


• Able to manage relationships and senior stakeholders


• Able to work to deadlines and adapt to changing conditions


• Excellent communication and stakeholder relationship building skills/ collaborative


• Culturally adoptive


• Well-developed verbal and written English


• Excel & ERP proficiency will be a plus


• Full accounting with medium tax/compliance background

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day, which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people.