Accounting Manager - Wbitvp Belgie

Job Description

Join the WBITVP Belgium Group as a key finance partner, helping with all aspects of controllership. You'll work closely with local management, production accountants, and wider production teams to ensure accurate financial reporting and compliance. Your duties will span statutory and management accounts, audits, tax coordination, and internal controls. This role reports to the Central European Hub Controller (Netherlands) and works closely with the WBITVP Belgium CFO and Finance Manager.
Your Role Accountabilities…
• Manage the period-end close process, coordinating with production accountants and external service providers.
• Oversee month-end tasks including intercompany recharges, production accruals, post-production entries and real estate cost centre reconciliations.
• Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations, providing insights on key movements to senior stakeholders.
• Ensure accurate accounting and tax treatment for provisions, accruals, bonuses, stock options, leases, and fixed assets.
• Oversee the preparation of statutory financial statements and act as the primary contact for external auditors.
• Coordinate with service providers for direct and indirect tax filings and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Monitor the performance of outsourced accounting services (SDC), including AR/AP and cash clearing, and manage intercompany reconciliations and settlements.
• Own local SAP processes including production interfaces, data integrity, and master data maintenance.
• Provide local reporting inputs for WBD's quarterly and regulatory disclosures and guide corporate finance needs.
• Involvement with finance system upgrades and deployments (e.g. SAP S/4HANA, e-invoicing), ensuring alignment with both US GAAP and Belgian GAAP.

Qualifications & Experience…
• Recognised accounting qualification required.
• Strong command of English, both written and spoken.
• Prior experience managing an audit process is essential.
• Advanced Excel skills required, intermediate proficiency in other Microsoft Office tools.
• Solid experience in:
• Belgian GAAP (required), US GAAP (advantageous)
• Statutory financial statement preparation and Belgian regulatory reporting
• Direct and indirect tax compliance
• Strong interpretive, judgment, and problem-solving abilities
• Proactive, detail-oriented, exceptional organizational skills
• Must be self-motivated and able to work under a deadline and handle multiple tasks
• Self-starter as well as a team player with strong relationship management skills
• Experience working with outsourced partners and in multinational matrix organisations preferred.
• Industry experience in production, media, or a similarly client-based sector is desirable.
• Familiarity with enterprise systems (Just Produce/Navision and SAP preferred).
• Background in a professional accounting firm is advantageous.
Company Overview…
The Warner Bros. International Television Production Belgium (WBITVP Belgium) Group is the Belgian group of production companies of the London-headquartered international television division of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.
WBITVP Belgium Group consists of 5 production entities that develop, produce, and distribute local language content for public and commercial, VOD & SVOD channels in all major genres: Scripted TV & Film, Studio Entertainment and Docureality. The ITVP group's high-profile franchises include the entertainment shows The Bachelor, Cash for Trash, First Dates, CQC, The Repair Shop, F-boy Island and recent scripted successes include The Twelve, Love Me, ThuisHuis and Waterloo Road.

Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.
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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-z33ov1-216-73-216-117-42 in your application.