General Ledger Accountant

About Us

Ocado Group is a global technology leader reinventing retail through AI and Robotic Engineering. While our technology powers the world’s most advanced fulfilment centres, our people drive our international growth.

We are now launching a new Global Shared Service Centre in Sofia. This hub is the strategic heart of our international finance and people operations, and we are looking for leaders to contribute to building the global team from the ground up.

The Opportunity

GL Accountant role will play a key part in the delivery of financial close activities, partnering with the wider finance team to facilitate understanding, provide trusted and accurate reporting, and to drive forward process improvements within their space. We are looking for a motivated professional who sees beyond the ledger—someone eager to hunt down process improvements, champion continuous innovation, and take pride in mentoring a high-performing team toward their full potential.

Requirements

• Build strong working relationships within the finance team and key stakeholders in the business

• End-to-end ownership of month-end processes for a business area, including preparation of journals

• Maintain & owning period-end Balance Sheet reconciliations, supporting the maintenance of controls to ensure they are delivered to a high standard

• Produce period-end costs reports, working closely with commercial finance business partners to analyse and identify key trends in actuals to offer meaningful insight and aid variance analysis exercises, including updating the monthly KPI’s

• Facilitate ad-hoc analysis and insights on specific project issues

• Support the month-end closure

• Collaborate with the business and Commercial Finance team partners regarding balance sheet queries/closing

• Participate in the year-end and half-year audit process as required

Essential Criteria

• Financial qualification Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance or other relevant field

• Advanced Excel skills with experience of mainstream accounting packages & knowledge of Google suite preferable

• Candidates must be able to prioritise and have a flexible approach, responding to the changing nature of Ocado in a timely manner

• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast paced cross-functional environment

• Excellent communication skills

• Ability to achieve against goals, prioritising tasks and working closely with colleagues

• Experience of dealing with large volumes of data with an ability to consolidate

• Analytical thinking

• Ability to complete work to high standards whilst identifying opportunities for further improvements

• Strong attention to detail to provide accurate and timely data and reporting

• Mindset to own and drive their personal development plans and to improve their technical and soft skills and the understanding of the business

• Striving to continuously improve

• Personable, open, flexible and hard working

Why you should join us

Sofia is the cornerstone of our global operations. You will work in a fast-paced environment where your work directly impacts the stability and growth of our international teams. This role offers high visibility across the entire finance function. You will collaborate closely with Group Finance on technical reporting, provide critical support to Commercial Finance Partners, and maintain a broad network of internal stakeholders—including FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable etc. to drive operational excellence.

What We Offer You:

• Hybrid office attendance policy that sees you onsite 60% of your time

• 30 days of “Work from anywhere” program

• 25 days of annual leave

• 150 EUR monthly allowance for wellbeing or flexible expenses

• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave policy

• Medical plan including health & dental coverage

• Life and disability insurance

• Employee assistance program

Equal Opportunities Ocado Group is an equal opportunities employer and as such makes every effort to ensure that all potential employees are treated fairly and equally, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, age, or disability or union membership status.

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