Our client is a leading German manufacturer, currently expanding its Global Business Services centre in Sofia.

They are looking to hire a Senior IFRS Specialist who will play a critical role in ensuring compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), with a particular emphasis on IFRS 16 (Leases). The specialist will be responsible for managing the accounting and reporting of lease arrangements across the organization, providing technical expertise, and ensuring accurate implementation of IFRS 16 policies and procedures. The role also involves supporting the global finance teams, offering guidance on complex IFRS 16 issues, and ensuring consistent application of the standard across all business units.

Job Responsibilities

• Monitor and review lease contracts, ensuring compliance with IFRS 16 across all relevant entities.
• Provide technical accounting advice on complex lease arrangements, including modifications, renewals, and terminations
• Ensure accurate accounting and reporting of lease agreements, including recognition, measurement, presentation, and disclosure of leases.
• Lease Data Management: Coordinate the collection and validation of lease data from various business units globally.
• Lease Data Management: Ensure completeness and accuracy of lease contracts and related information within the lease accounting system.
• Lease Data Management: Collaborate with key stakeholders to maintain an updated and accurate lease database.
• Assist in the preparation of month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing activities, with a focus on lease-related accounts.
• Support internal and external audit processes by providing required documentation and explanations related to IFRS 16.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• CPA, ACCA, or equivalent professional certification is preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in accounting or finance.
• Good knowledge of IFRS
• Practical experience with SAP SEM-BCS and SAP R/3 would be an advantage.
• Advanced user of the MS Office package.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex financial data.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate with stakeholders at all levels.
• Fluent proficiency in written and spoken English. Knowledge of other European languages is an advantage.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail in financial reporting and analysis.

Our client is an investment management firm focused on delivering attractive performance and client portfolio solutions. They believe that technology will play a key role in the future of finance, and have built a robust trading platform to handle scale, complexity and customization.

They are now looking for an experienced Network Engineer to join their team of highly skilled engineers in Sofia.

Job Responsibilities

• Balance ‘business as usual’ and project work which comprises of day-to-day support and administration of the estate
• Promote and adhere to best practice across Technology by aligning strong engineering skills, attention to detail and knowledge of industry trends and best practices to build reliable, high performance and robust solutions.
• Integrate Ansible, Terraform, and other automation tools with Network systems and services.
• Ensure high availability across the Network estate.
• Document automation processes and maintain version control via Git.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and provide automation solutions.
• Work collaboratively and as a trusted partner with infrastructure teams and stakeholders to understand requirements and provide solutions.
• Participate in an on-call support rota.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• 5+ years of experience operating and deploying network infrastructure
• 3+ years of experience in ground-up network design
• Experience with routing and network protocols
• Experience troubleshooting transport protocols (TCP/UDP)
• Ideally experience with overlay networks (EVPN, VXLAN)
• Excellent knowledge of Palo Alto Networks, Cisco Networking, Arista Networks, Infoblox
• Exposure to Grafana and/or some Python experience would be considered an advantage
• Eagerness to automate your workflow to increase efficiency
• High capacity to learn; we are more interested in how you think than what you already know
• High capacity for context switching and organising your workload
• Clear communication skills with the ability to maintain a high degree of customer feedback
• A flexible and reliable team player who enjoys working in a collaborative environment
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Native level of communication skills in English

Our client is an investment management firm focused on delivering attractive performance and client portfolio solutions. They believe that technology will play a key role in the future of finance, and have built a robust trading platform to handle scale, complexity and customization.

They are now looking to hire a Support Engineer (Linux) to provide front line support for their technology platform. This includes triaging new issues as they arise; redirecting if appropriate, resolving if possible, and escalating as necessary.

As Support Engineer, you will interact with a wide variety of users: developers of all levels of experience, quants, traders, investment managers, middle and back-office staff, and any other team that might have cause to use the company’s investment platform. Problems will range from simple “how do I access this system?” questions, to complex issues that require knowledge across many domains and technologies and might require troubleshooting, bug fixes or infrastructure changes.

Technology

Their systems run on Linux and most of the code is in Python. For storage, they rely heavily on S3, Kafka, Postgres/Oracle, ArcticDB and MongoDB.

They use RMDS/TREP and Kafka for data pipelines, Bitbucket for source control, Jenkins for continuous integration, Prometheus + Grafana for metrics collection, ELK for log shipping and monitoring, Docker for containerisation, Kubernetes for container orchestration, Airflow and Jenkins for scheduling, OpenStack for their private cloud, and Ansible and Terraform for architecture automation.

Job Responsibilities

• Owning user issues from the point of reporting through to resolution
• Tying together the various specialised support functions by providing a single interface for users
• Triage the queue of issues effectively and efficiently. This includes acknowledging the user, understanding the issue in its entirety, and also setting an appropriate priority
• Resolving queries that need a light touch
• Troubleshooting more difficult problems
• Escalating to a specialist team if unable to assist directly
• Champion and promote Service Improvement on an on-going basis to continually improve quality and user satisfaction
• Highlight where common problems are not being adequately addressed
• Report on the condition of the estate, making improvements and suggestions as appropriate
• Building new headnodes, in accordance with the company’s security requirements (there are Chinese walls between many departments), users’ needs, and available capacity
• Troubleshooting and fixing issues related to docker, Kubernetes, and other distributed components
• Troubleshooting and fixing issues related to networks, disk, memory, and CPU

Job Requirements

• Strong academic record and a degree with high mathematical and computing content e.g. computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Physics
• Strong technical grasp of Linux, preferably with Centos/Ubuntu
• Previous experience in a similar position in a financial services organisation with a strong skill set in supporting Linux OS
• Exposure to containerisation technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker and Openstack
• Fluency in one or more of the following: Python, Ansible or Terraform
• Intellectually robust with a keenly analytic approach to problem solving
• Self-organised and focused on delivering value to the business with relentless efforts to improve process
• Strong interpersonal skills: able to establish and maintain a close working relationship with quantitative researchers, traders and software engineering colleagues
• Confident communicator: able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views

Our client is a leading German manufacturer, currently setting up a Global Business Services centre in Sofia. They are planning to hire nearly 150 individuals into four teams: Procure to Pay, Record to Report, Order to Cash, and Controlling.

They are now hiring for a Record to Report Specialist with strong knowledge and proven track record in RTR processes.

Job Responsibilities

• Participate in transition activities
• Support accounting services for selected processes and countries, which include accounting for and coordination of month-end general ledger close, prepare balance sheet reconciliations.
• Monthly period-end fixed assets closing activities;
• Provide support for roles in the area of Record-to Report.
• Acts as primary point of contact for selected partners and/or processes
• Responsible for financial reporting operational activities.
• Participate in process improvement projects.
• Support audit activities,.
• Participate/lead cross trainings of junior associates and new team members.
• Handle ad-hoc requests on a timely manner.
• Follow internal control procedures and all accounting policies in accordance with CAS and internal control framework.
• Deliver error free process.
• Build supportive relationships with peers and colleagues.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Accounting, Finance or Economics
• 3+ years of experience in RTR
• Experience with simple to complex query handling
• Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, PPT)
• ERP knowledge (SAP)
• Process knowledge on RTR
• Strong team player
• Problem solving attitude
• To demonstrate analytical skills
• Full professional proficiency of written and oral English required
• Full professional proficiency of written and oral German is desirable
• Completion of or progression towards professional qualifications like ACCA, CIMA or CPA is considered a significant advantage

Our client is a global pharmaceuticals company with focus on developing, manufacturing and marketing various healthcare products. They are now seeking a Senior Accountant to manage the accounting process for their Bulgarian entity.

Job Responsibilities

• Support Accounts Payable, Customer Invoicing, Cash Application, and other general accounting activities as needed.
• Participate in monthly closing process activities, including, but not limited to, general accounting support and the posting of journal entries.
• Analyze financial information and prepare reconciliation of accounts.
• Interact with internal and external auditors and assist with related deliverables.
• Control and analyze financial and accounting records in accordance with the requirements of tax and social legislation.
• Support budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Performing other ad-hoc accounting duties.

Job Requirements

• University degree in Accounting, Finance or another related field
• 7+ years’ experience in accounting
• Consolidation and reporting experience would be considered a plus
• Detailed understanding of Bulgarian tax legislation
• Good IFRS knowledge
• Advanced MS Excel
• ERP experience, preferably Microsoft Dynamics and/or IBM Cognos
• Fluent English
• Detailed oriented and able to perform job functions with high accuracy.
• Strong analytical skills, with proven ability to analyze processes, suggest and implements continuous improvements.
• Demonstrated problem-solving and investigative skills.

Our client is a global pharmaceutical company focused on developing, manufacturing and marketing various health products. They have presence in over 100 countries globally with production facilities in Europe and the US.

They are now seeking a Financial Reporting Manager to support the periodic closing and reporting processes for the assigned Group entities. You will be overseeing policies and internal control procedures, and also seek alignment and consistency in accounting principles applied across the group’s reporting entities.

Job Responsibilities

Monthly, Quarterly and Annual Accounting & Reporting

• Ensure reported results and balance sheet positions for Group entities are completed in compliance with closing schedules and group accounting policies and procedures (IFRS).
• Review monthly the quality of the closing results for all your Group entities – to identify reconciling items and to follow up on remediation with local Finance Managers and accounting teams.
• Work with corporate accounting and tax team on any requests they may have to clarify reported numbers and complete reporting schedules.
• Ensure local Finance team members are trained and updated with any changes to the corporate reporting packages and requirements.
• Understand results and trends within the business, providing analysis that allows budget holders to deliver on their operational responsibilities and drive performance.
• Oversee and assist with the annual budgets of the Group entities
• Oversee the annual financial audits of the subsidiaries
• Manage/document/standardize/align the accounting manual for all reporting entities to be compliant with group accounting policies and procedures.
• Lead financial reviews performed by internal and external auditors.

Intercompany positions and transfer pricing (TP)

• Ensure contracts are in place to support TP policies and monitor correct
  implementation.
• Report to the Group Corporate Tax team on a quarterly basis on the compliance for cost markup calculations as per the TP agreements implemented.
• Support, follow up on tax audits/opportunities and any project related to the transfer pricing environment and updates required.

Corporate Initiatives and Compliance Support

• Support corporate accounting and reporting projects, sustainability projects, and other certification procedures.
• Manage statutory compliance tracker and calendar for all legal entities.
• Monitor annual financial statements and corporate income tax filing.
• Oversee and assist with the annual budgets of the Group.
• Preparation of IFRS consolidated financial statements and communication with Group auditors.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor or Master degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics.
• ACA/ACCA certificate would be considered an advantage.
• At least 7 years’ experience in a financial reporting role (Accounting, Controlling, Audit).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products.
• Experience with an ERP (Axapta or Dynamics D-365) and reporting system (IBM Cognos Controller) is a plus.
• You are accurate, detail and results oriented, facts and figures minded, have strong analytical and organizational skills with proven ability to multitask and prioritize workload.
• You are hands-on, have ability to work independently as well as in a team and have strong interpersonal and people management skills.
• You feel comfortable working closely with different stakeholders in an international and multi-cultural environment.
• You have good communications skills and are fluent in English.

The company offers

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
• Office near a metro station
• Flexible working hours
• Annual leave allowance of 23 days per year
• Private health insurance
• Multisport card
• Food vouchers – 100 BGN per month
• Home office – subject to approval by line manager

Our client is an investment management firm focused on delivering attractive performance and client portfolio solutions. They believe that technology will play a key role in the future of finance, and have built a robust trading platform to handle scale, complexity and customization.

The landscape within the UC area changes rapidly, driven by technology and hybrid working. With the focus being on an excellent stakeholder experience, the Group uses scripting, infrastructure as code, open source and cloud technologies combined with Enterprise UC products from vendors such as Cisco, Zoom and Microsoft to achieve this.

The Voice and Video Platform Engineering is a small team of three engineers and is responsible for the design, engineering, project delivery, and ongoing operation and support of all voice and video conferencing and related systems within the group.

Job Responsibilities

• Play a key role in designing and evolving the future state of the voice and video infrastructure, automation, and processes within the group.
• Get involved in every stage of voice and video projects from design to implementation to support and management. The team will engineer, own and run the full life cycle of any solution.
• Innovate and improve the user experience of the solutions they manage including CUCM, Cisco RoomOS meeting rooms, Webex, Teams and Zoom meetings.
• Use a mixture of on-premises and cloud technologies to provide highly available and high performance UC systems
• Ensure that the platforms in the company are available 24×365 and deliver the required performance levels.
• Engage with high profile stakeholders such as Traders, Compliance, Senior Management and drive initiatives.
• Troubleshoot problems and ensure that the root-cause is understood & resolved.
• Maintain a consistently high level of service delivery for incidents, requests and changes.

Job Requirements

• Solid background in enterprise voice and video conferencing and all of the elements that these technologies touch.
• Understanding and exposure to Voice technologies, including CUCM, Teams phone, Webex Cloud Calling and Voice recording. Historic understanding of Trader Voice.
• Understanding and experience of administration of Teams, Webex and Zoom platforms, meetings and meeting room appliances.
• Experience with DevOps and Git and understanding of automation tools like Ansible and Octopus
• Experience presenting and visualising data clearly and concisely.
• Hands-on, always looking to experiment, learn, and explore new technology and new approaches to old problems.
• Able to analyse problems, spot opportunities for improvement, and design with appropriate solutions.

Other beneficial experience:

• Experience of IP Networks, with Cisco or Arista professional certification.
• Experience of Design, Project delivery and Operational Support.
• Experience of MS Teams Admin Centre, Teams Phone, Direct Routing/Operator Connect, Local gateways.
• Performance analysis and troubleshooting of voice systems, inc SIP troubleshooting.
• Experience and understanding of Windows, Linux, VMware.
• Scripting in one or more of the following: Python, PowerShell, Javascript.
• Experience with cloud technologies, Azure, OAuth, Certificates.
• Development and interpretation of performance monitoring and metrics.

Technologies used at the Group include:

CUCM, SIP/CUBE, Cisco Room Devices, Webex, Teams, Zoom, Verint Financial Compliance (Voice and meeting recording), MS Azure, InfluxDB and Grafana, Python, PowerShell, and Git.

Our client is an investment management firm focused on delivering attractive performance and client portfolio solutions. They believe that technology will play a key role in the future of finance, and have built a robust trading platform to handle scale, complexity and customization.

They are in the process of transforming and modernising their user platform environments with an emphasis on Digital Employee Experience, modern management, self-service, Windows as a Service, DevOps, infrastructure as code, and automation of the user experience.

As such, they are seeking an User Platform Engineer to join the team responsible for the design, implementation and ongoing maintenance of the global endpoint estate and associated infrastructure.

Job Responsibilities

• Play a key role in delivering the future state of the the Windows, macOS and Citrix endpoint infrastructure at the company.
• Maintenance and continuous service improvement of Windows 10.
• Provide operational support for the endpoint estate and ensure that all systems are available and performant.
• Act as an escalation point for the local Tech Support team and on occasion help out where needed.
• Ongoing development and continuous improvement of the user platforms.
• Ongoing patching and maintenance of both endpoints and infrastructure
• Ensure systems compliance with security standards and audit requirements.
• Transform manual processes into fully automated solutions.
• Introduce new tooling and technologies, to continuously improve the user platforms.
• Work closely with colleagues across the business to understand the challenges they have and implement tools to improve their experience.

Job Requirements

• Expert knowledge of one or more of the following: Windows 10/11, System Center Configuration Manager, macOS, JAMF or Citrix
• Experience evaluating, designing and implementing Microsoft solutions.
• Experience delivering 3rd Line operational support.
• Experience with performance troubleshooting, tuning and root-cause analysis of complex performance and stability issues.
• Extensive scripting experience.
• Understanding of what a modern user platform infrastructure should look like, and what
  tools are needed to implement it.
• Hands-on attitude, always looking to experiment, learn, and explore new technologies.
• Able to clearly analyse problems, and design with appropriate solutions.

Technologies used at the firm include:

Windows 10/11 (desktops, laptops and ESX hosted VDI’s), macOS, Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop, Citrix
Workspace Environment Manager, UE-V, Bitbucket, VMware ESX, Grafana, Jira, Slack, Nexthink, Microsoft Authenticator, Citrix Netscaler, Octopus, DSC, JAMF Pro, Powershell, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM/ConfigMGR), Palo Alto Prisma;

Our client is an investment management firm focused on delivering attractive performance and client portfolio solutions. They believe that technology will play a key role in the future of finance, and have built a robust trading platform to handle scale, complexity and customization.

They are currently seeking an Application Support Analyst to join their Order Management System (OMS) team. This team covers order generation all the way through to execution and back-office settlement. The role will support the investment management teams and their investment tools, as well as middle and back-office users with their business applications. You will be exposed to first line support, troubleshooting any issues following established procedures and escalating where necessary.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide technical and business support to portfolio managers, execution traders and support functions.
• First line application support for business systems with escalation to software development team, infrastructure technology teams, end users or third parties as appropriate.
• Record and take ownership of issues using Zendesk, ServiceNow or Jira system and follow through to successful resolution.
• Incident and problem management, including input to post-incident reviews and resolution of follow up tasks.
• Monitor hardware, applications and systems across the business using tools such as OpsGenie & Check MK (Nagios).
• User administration and training.
• Test, perform and implement system changes to production on behalf of the development team, resolve technical queries and triage to specialist where appropriate.
• Ensure that all procedures and policies are up to date in the knowledge base and available for use by all team members.

Job Requirements

• Strong academic background in computer science, or another quantitative discipline.
• Understanding of Windows Operating Systems and SQL Server.
• Experience writing SQL queries is desirable.
• Strong written and oral communication skills in English.
• Ability to meet deadlines and prioritise workload to meet the needs of the business.
• Ability to manage and develop relationships with business teams and technologists.
• Ability to effectively and timely communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to quickly gain understanding and expertise in new technologies, systems business processes and work independently to research and resolve issues.
• Enthusiastic team player with excellent attention to detail.
• Strong desire to develop and deliver, with a keen desire to learn.

Our client is a multinational company with a shared services centre in Sofia. They are now looking to hire two people to join their team as an Accountant.

Job Responsibilities

• Perform Bank related accounting activities and control all banking operations such as recording of treasury entries and bank account reconciliation
• Assist with the monthly, quarterly and annual closing process for the company’s Spanish entities
• Validate, justify and post any required accounting entries (routine and non-routine processes)
• Prepare and analyse aging report and bad debt
• Provide integrity assurance on each and every GL upstream and downstream process: fixed assets (including capex recording and depreciation); payroll; inventory, determination of revenue and expense accruals and reconciliation, provisions, expense reports, VAT and local tax provision, cash and bank information, issuance of intercompany invoices, etc.
• Provide the group with all necessary analysis and reports
• Ensure filing and archiving of accounting supporting documents
• Prepare the analysis and reconciliations necessary to qualify and explain the accounting information on a regular basis, of which but not limited to:
  • Intercompany reconciliation
  • Fixed Assets reconciliation
  • Bank reconciliation
  • Payroll reconciliation
  • Balance Sheet / Net equity reconciliation
• Contribute to maintain high quality Internal Control Environment
• Support audit reviews and answer any requests in case of one-time event and collaboration in financial statements (local and IFRS) preparation
• Coordinate with the Accounts Payable team with regards to payments

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or other relevant
• 3 to 4 years of general accounting experience and bookkeeping skills
• English language skills are required, Spanish desirable.
• SAP experience essential, BPC experience preferred
• IFRS basic knowledge
• Good understanding of accounting processes and procedures
• Analytical skills and attention to details
• Ability to work in a team
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities to meet strict deadlines and manage time efficiently
• Rigorous and proactive