Accountant

We make life more comfortable.

Leggett & Platts overall mission is a commitment to enhance lives by delivering quality products offering empowering and rewarding careers and doing our part in bringing about a better future.

Leggett & Platts inventive heritage and leadership span more than 130 years. Leggett & Platt has divisions that design manufacture and sell a variety of products for all areas of life. Our reliable product development and launch capability coupled with our global footprint make us a trusted partner for customers in the automotive furniture hydraulic cylinders flooring textile and geo components industries.

Learn more about the history of Leggett & Platt: Leader in the Upholstered Furniture Industry

In our Furniture Components business we design manufacture and distribute a wide range of components and finished products that enhance comfort motion and style in upholstered furniture including recliner mechanisms seating support systems and sofa sleeper units. With a global footprint that includes international manufacturing product development distribution and sales we are strategically positioned to support upholstered furniture manufacturers around the world.

Workplace Furniture Solutions

Leggett & Platt is North Americas leading independent manufacturer of office furniture components and mechanism. Our Work Furniture business produces task and finished components as well as select lines of private label finished seating. From surface-critical bent tube assemblies and molded plywood components to chair mechanisms bases arms seats and backs Work Furniture brings diverse world-class manufacturing capabilities together in the production and assembly of high-quality contract furniture products.

Learn more about Furniture components: Furniture

As a(n) Accountant you will performall accounting activities for the timely preparation of monthly financial statements in accordance with the German Commercial Code (HGB) and internal guidelines; comprehensive support and processing of all payment flows with customers and suppliers. Preparing wage and salary-related information for further processing by the tax advisor.

Main tasks:

Accounting / Monthly and annual financial statements

• Review of AP and receipts from a VAT perspective
• Account assignment and recording of incoming invoices
• Posting bank statements
• Checking and posting travel expense reports
• Cash management
• Preparing and executing payment transactions
• Accounts receivables management monitoring of open items and collection activities
• Assistance with asset accounting recording and management of assets
• Preparation of monthly quarterly and annual financial statements
• Support with internal audits
• Maintenance of customer and supplier master data in accordance with internal guidelines
• Review of credit limits
• Submitting monthly VAT returns and ZM reports

HR

• Maintaining employee master data in the companys HR system (LP Core)
• Communicating changes to employee master data to the third-party payroll provider
• Reconciling payroll accounts
• Maintaining work time data (program: Fine Time for Windows)
• Preparing payroll accounting for the third-party payroll provider

Reporting

• Reporting as part of monthly quarterly and annual financial statements
• Reporting Weekly AR Report

• Preparation of Intrastat reports

Additional cross-departmental tasks:

Unterstützung der Geschäftsleitung in organisatorischen Themen wie Informationsverteilung und Organisation von Teamevents.

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• Put People First reflects our commitment to safety and care of each other learning and development and creating an environment of mutual respect empathy and belonging.
• Do the Right Thing focuses us on acting with honesty and integrity delivering the results the right way taking pride in our work and speaking the truth good or bad.
• Do Great WorkTogether occurs when we engage without hierarchy collaborate as a team embrace challenges and work for the good of all of us.
• Take Ownership and Raise the Bar demonstrates our responsibility to add value and make a difference challenge the status quo and biases to make things better foster innovative and creative solutions to drive impact and explore new perspectives and embrace change.

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