Junior Accountant
About the job
- Around 1–2 years of experience, with strong exposure to French GAAP, ideally in a shared service center or audit firm.
- Solid knowledge of French statutory requirements and working knowledge of IFRS.
- Strong Excel skills and comfort working with ERPs and reporting tools.
- Professional fluency in French and working proficiency in English.
- Ability to manage structured processes and controls and communicate clearly with international stakeholders.
- Lead end-to-end French GAAP accounting for French real estate entities.
- Prepare and/or review monthly, quarterly, and annual closing entries, including accruals, cut-offs, provisions, reclassifications, and foreign exchange adjustments.
- Supervise and complete the AC3 or equivalent working file by loading balances, posting adjustments, reconciling accounts, and ensuring a complete audit trail.
- Review and challenge client schedules for fixed assets, capital expenditure, depreciation, loans, leases, rent rolls, provisions, and employee benefits, and reconcile them with the general ledger.
- Prepare and review French statutory financial statements, including liasse, balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and annexes, ensuring FEC compliance and accurate mapping from working files.
- Coordinate with tax teams and/or external advisors to align statutory accounts with corporate income tax, value-added tax, and other tax filings, and support preparation of related documentation.
- Extract, reconcile, and validate trial balances from client enterprise resource planning systems and reporting tools, ensuring the correct period, entity, currency, and comparatives.
- Perform detailed IFRS-to-French GAAP conversions by identifying differences, posting bridging entries, and documenting adjustments and underlying assumptions.
- Analyze and classify profit and loss items, including rental income, service charges, operating expenses, property taxes, and financing costs, in line with French GAAP and client charts of accounts.
- Supervise Junior Accountants by allocating work, reviewing files, providing feedback, and ensuring deadlines and quality standards are met.
- Contribute to process improvement and automation, such as Excel tools and ERP/reporting enhancements, to increase efficiency and reduce manual errors.
- Extract and review trial balances from client ERPs, validate classification of profit and loss items, and manage reclassifications, accruals, and cut-off entries in line with French GAAP and client instructions.
- Convert IFRS figures into French GAAP and ensure compliance with French regulatory requirements, including FEC and annexes.
- Experience with real estate entities and IFRS or IFRS-to-local-GAAP conversions is a strong advantage.
- A Master's degree in Accounting or Finance, such as DSCG or Master CCA, or equivalent.
About the company
Deloitte audits companies and advises businesses and governments on tax, technology, and risk, and it is one of the Big Four, the world's four largest accounting firms. In 1849 its founder became the first independent auditor of a public company, Britain's Great Western Railway. Its auditors check companies' financial reports for errors and fraud before investors rely on them, while its consultants design strategy, install business software, and defend clients against cyberattacks. Clients pay fees for each audit or project, and each country's Deloitte firm is a separate business owned by its local partners. Deloitte was founded in London in 1845 and is based in New York.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$17.1M
Headquarters
Madrid, Spain
Founded
1845
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What believers are saying
- Growth keeps hiring going: revenue rose 5.7% to $74.5 billion and staff neared 500,000 in the year to May 2026.
- AI is part of the job: in October 2025, Deloitte opened the Claude assistant to 470,000 people, Anthropic's largest rollout.
- Making partner pays off: Deloitte UK's 784 equity partners averaged £1.125 million in profit in the year to May 2026.
What critics are saying
- Tech consulting is lagging: it grew 2.5% in the year to May 2026, the slowest of Deloitte's four businesses.
- Back-office benefits are shrinking: Deloitte US will halve parental leave to 8 weeks for internal staff in January 2027.
- Federal work brings scrutiny: Deloitte agreed to pay $21.5 million in August 2026 over claims diversity targets swayed promotions.
What makes Deloitte unique
- Deloitte is the biggest Big Four accounting firm: fiscal 2025 revenue of $70.5 billion beat PwC's $56.9 billion.
- Consulting runs deeper here: Deloitte kept its consultants in 2003 after PwC, EY, and KPMG sold or spun off theirs.
- Deloitte leads cyber consulting: it took 32% of worldwide security consulting revenue in 2025, research firm Gartner says.
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Business Insider convened 15 HR and C-suite leaders in Davos to discuss how AI is reshaping hiring and talent pipelines. The roundtable, presented by Indeed, revealed growing concerns about entry-level positions and skills assessment. Deloitte's Elizabeth Faber emphasised maintaining a "human-led, technology-powered" approach whilst carefully navigating reduced junior hiring. TCW's Melissa Stolfi noted her firm has downsized its analyst class but maintains a pyramid structure to preserve apprenticeship culture and future leadership pipelines. Indeed's chief economist Svenja Gudell warned that whilst tech employers now demand five-plus years' experience, this creates future talent shortages if junior hiring continues declining. Salesforce's Nathalie Scardino said her company receives two million applications annually and has shifted focus from years of experience to learning aptitude. Manpower Group's Becky Frankiewicz noted AI can process candidates faster whilst reducing bias, potentially unlocking opportunities beyond traditional qualifications.
Deloitte plans to hire 50,000 employees in India and is evaluating Mangaluru, Karnataka, as a potential new location, according to South Asia CEO Romal Shetty. The company currently employs 140,000 people in India, representing one in four Deloitte employees globally. Shetty said India hosts 50% of all global capability centres worldwide, with significant growth potential in Tier II and Tier III cities. He proposed creating digital economic zones integrating GCCs, GPU-based data centres, startups and academic institutions to accelerate expansion. The CEO called for streamlining GCC setup processes from six months to two weeks, whilst acknowledging infrastructure constraints around energy and water for data centres. Shetty noted Mangaluru offers advantages including talent availability and real estate, adding the company's presence there is a matter of timing.
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