Junior Accountant

Job Description

Role: Junior Accountant

Department: Finance

Reporting to: Chief Accountant

Job Description

Role: Junior Accountant

Department: Finance

Reporting to: Chief Accountant

Scope of the role:

The role of the Junior Accountant is to ensure, through the specific activities, the compliance with local tax regulations, as well as support the internal controls within COFCO, relevant for the Accounting & Tax areas.

The holder of the role will be a hard-working professional able to work diligently with tight and recurrent deadlines. This person will be comfortable with working in a developing environment, implementing all applicable policies and procedures.

Main Job Responsibilities:

Regular

• Book trade and non-trade invoices by ensuring compliance with applicable rules and standards related to payables and receivables (review/validation of trade-related invoices)
• Ensures the booking of the daily bank statements (interface for: payments and collections, as well as booking the manual transactions: bank fees, interests, foreign currency exchange, etc.);
• Ensures the booking of the travel and petty cash expenses.
• Book general admin costs (invoices, accruals, expenses in advance, payroll, etc.);

Monthly

• Prepares monthly analytical review/reconciliation of designated accounts, including reconciliation between balance sheet and detailed ledgers.
• Performs other specific activities related to month-end/budget process, as well as supports the rest of the team to deliver accurate and on-time reporting (external, Group vis BPC system)

Support functions

• Supports the annual auditing process, with allocated responsibilities on certain auditing procedures as per roles & responsibilities schedule
• Supports with the standardization, optimization and implementation of accounting procedures, IT system developments

General/Compliance

• Performs any other duties as instructed by direct manager or senior management, relevant to the position
• Adheres to COFCO values, guidelines and procedures, as well as to internally developed policies and workflows

Requirements:

• Education in Financial area or related studies;
• 0–2 years of experience in accounting, finance, or bookkeeping.
• Familiarity with VAT processing and invoice verification
• Good Microsoft Excel skills (formulas, pivot tables).
• Experience in SAP is desirable
• Proficient English speaker; Romanian native
• Positive personality
• Accurate, on-time deliverables
• Analytical abilities

Building relationships (internally- externally): 

• internally: 
  • with the other members of local organization (Trade team, Contract Admin team, Execution team, Logistics team, Finance & Controlling team, Constanta team)
  • offers support to Finance Team
  • with Group departments (Geneva/Rotterdam Treasury, Accounting, Taxes, Legal)
• externally: company’s business partners (auditors, suppliers and clients)

Draft reviewed in July 2026

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