Asset Accountant

CERN · Tills vidare · Deadline 2026-11-24

CERN is hiring an **Asset Accountant** on a 60-month contract offering **hybrid work flexibility**, with an ideal start date in March 2027. Joining a team of seven professionals within the General Accounting section, the role focuses on the accounting of tangible and intangible assets—with particular emphasis on Property, Plant and Equipment (PPE)—alongside CERN’s inventories. Responsibilities include recording asset movements, depreciation, amortisation, and impairment tests, updating asset registers, reviewing useful lives, and coordinating physical counts. The postholder also supports the ongoing ERP transformation project, handles balance sheet reconciliations, assists with external auditor queries, and contributes to notes and disclosures for the organisation’s financial statements. Applicants must hold a **master’s degree or equivalent relevant experience** in accounting, finance, or a related field, alongside an accounting certification such as ACA, CA, or CPA. Proven experience as a general accountant focused on asset accounting is required, together with demonstrated experience in IFRS and/or IPSAS international accounting standards. Background in an international organisation or a company processing high data volumes is preferred. Candidates must have proficiency in spoken and written English or French, combined with a commitment to learn the other language.

What you'll do:
Within CERN's Finance and Administrative Processes Department (FAP), specifically the Accounting Services Group. We are looking for a dynamic person to join our General Accounting (GA) section and play an active role in the accounting of CERN's tangible and intangible assets, as well as its inventories. You will also support broader financial reporting activities and exciting accounting projects. There will be a particular focus on Property, Plant and Equipment (PPE).

As an experienced Accountant, you will join a team of seven professionals and play a key role in all activities related to asset accounting.

Your responsibilities:

Coordinate regular register(s) updates and reviews of useful lives and residual values with other CERN stakeholders.
Analyse CERN projects to identify new assets or consolidation/upgrade of existing assets.
Perform accounting entries related to movements of assets, depreciation/amortisation, and impairment tests.
Support the ongoing ERP transformation project touching the areas of asset accounting and financial accounts.
Perform balance sheet account reconciliations, including a reconciliation of assets register(s) to financial accounts.
Maintain policies, procedures, and controls to ensure efficient, accurate, and compliant asset accounting.
Coordinate physical assets counts.
Support external auditors queries.
Support preparation of the Organization's Financial Statements, including assets related notes and disclosures.
Maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Your profile:

Proven experience as a general accountant with a focus on asset accounting, such as Property, Plant and Equipment (PPE).
Demonstrated experience with international accounting standards IFRS and/or IPSAS.
Experience preferably acquired in a company handling large volumes of data or in an international organisation.
Master's degree or equivalent relevant experience in the field of Accounting, Finance or a related field. Accounting certification, such as ACA, CA, CPA, etc.

Your skills:

Accounting control and analysis, book-keeping and book-closing.
Financial reporting and analysis, handling large volumes of data.
Has a structured and organised approach towards work; is able to set priorities and plan tasks with results in mind.
Uses openness and honesty to interact constructively with others.
Assimilates large quantities of information, identifies key issues and formulates conclusions clearly and concisely.
Demonstrates a willingness to accept changing circumstances; supports initiatives for change.
Works well autonomously; takes on activities and tasks without prompting.
Spoken and written English or French, with a commitment to learn the other language.

Ideal start date: 01/03/2027
Contract duration (in months): 60
Grade range: 6
Benchmark job: 5A0030 - Financial Professional
Job flexibility: Hybrid

For more information abour the position and application process, please visit: https://careers.cern/jobs/fap-acc-ga-2026-214-ld-2/

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