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General Ledger Accountant

Posted 1 Jul 2025
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1 to 10 years
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General Ledger Accountant at Coty

GENERAL LEDGER ACCOUNTANT

This General Ledger Accountant role offers a unique opportunity to enrich your finance experience as you will be working in an international and dynamic environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As our General Ledger Accountant you will join a team of highly motivated Finance professionals, supporting the complete management of the Financial Ledgers of Coty's European Principal entities, as well as the Commercial entities of Benelux and Global Travel Retail.

Your main focus:

  • Supporting the facilitation and coordination of the execution of day-to-day tasks
  • Month, quarter and year end close including internal and external reporting and audit
  • Supporting the controlling and compliance environment and keeping a constant eye on potential process efficiency improvements
  • Building good working relationships with your team members, internal and external support functions as well as internal stakeholders across the company. Therefore, you will be able to take action on queries and support timely resolutions individually or collaboratively

You will be working with passionate teams worldwide, experiencing different cultures.

Opportunities to build your own career path within the company. There is lots to learn, to experience and to explore.

The team consists of one Senior Manager and three GL Accountants, and you will work closely together with several departments such as BPO team in India, Payroll/HR, Transfer Pricing, Tax, Treasury, and other Finance teams (i.e. Supply Chain team, Inventory). All your colleagues are professional, friendly, supportive and of different nationalities.

YOU ARE A COTY FIT

You like to challenge yourself, work in a dynamic environment, communicate with different teams, departments and be on top of different topics. As an experienced GL accountant, you will have the opportunity to work on every aspect of accounting, and you get energy from working in a fast-paced, diverse and international environment. Other than that, you:

  • Have a professional accounting qualification and experience
  • Big4 working experience is a plus
  • Having worked with Inventory is a plus
  • Strong communication & collaboration skills
  • Self-motivated and able to prioritise tasks & workload
  • Focused individual, with excellent attention to details
  • Ability to use analytical & logical thinking to isolate and resolve issues in a timely manner
  • A drive and passion to achieve results at a high level
  • Experienced user of Microsoft Office package
  • Experience of SAP and FCCS is a big bonus.

OUR BENEFITS

As our General Ledger Accountant some of the benefits you will receive are:

  • Holiday entitlement of 30 days, based on full time employment
  • Company e-shop: discount on a wide selection of products
  • Omni-Working: Hybrid flexible working model enabling employees to balance remote and office-based work and promote work / life balance

ABOUT COTY

Coty is one of the world’s largest beauty companies with an iconic portfolio of brands across fragrance, color cosmetics, skincare, and body care. At Coty, we celebrate the entire human kaleidoscope and cultivate a culture of fearless kindness. Therefore, we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate against any candidate or employee and strive to be an open, inclusive and diverse workplace where all employees can be their authentic self. Join us in making over the world of beauty!

For additional information about Coty Inc., please visit www.coty.com/your-career.

Fearless. Forward. You.

Coty is one of the world’s largest beauty companies with approximately $9 billion in revenue, with a purpose to celebrate and liberate the diversity of consumers’ beauty. Its strong entrepreneurial heritage has created an iconic portfolio of leading beauty brands.

FMCG
Schiphol
Active in 130 countries
300 employees
40% men - 60% women
Average age is 31 years