Senior Accountant General Ledger - GBS… at Continental · Timișoara

Company Description

Continental is a leading tire manufacturer and industry specialist. Founded in 1871, the company generated sales of €19.7 billion in 2025 and currently employs around 78,000 people in 54 countries and markets.

ContiTech is one of the world’s leading material experts for industry applications. The Continental group sector offers its customers reliable, safe and convenient industry and service solutions using a range of materials for off-highway applications, on rails and roads, in the air, under and above the ground, in industrial environments, for the food sector and the furniture industry. With about 20,000 employees (Status as of March 2026) at more than 60 sites globally, and sales of some 6.0 billion euros (2025), the global industrial partner is active with core branches in Asia, Europe and North and South America.

Job Description

As a Senior for Accounting in GBS, you will be responsible for the following activities:

Performs complex professional accounting duties, involving the review of source documents used for accounting, maintenance of general ledgers, registers or other records and preparation of periodic and specific financial reports in line with the law, accounting standards and internal procedures;

Checks if the accounting documents are according to the law, internal procedures and solves the inconsistencies; Books in the accountancy, using SAP system, the data related to his/her area of responsibility;

Prepares independently monthly closing by making reconciliations of the data;

Access and works on different WEB applications;

Contributes to preparation of complex reports related to his/her area of responsibility supervised by the domain responsible;

Performs the management, maintenance and clarification of any differences on the accounts and follows up the situation;

Propose and implements improvements of the procedures and tools related to his/her area of responsibility; Actively participates in the monthly, quarterly, annual financial statements, external and internal audits and prepares data and reports;

Knows company quality policy and the impact of his activities in achieving quality targets.

A mentor will support you to stepwise take over own responsibility after an initial training phase which will familiarize you with our procedures, products, tools, processes and organization.

Qualifications

University degree (Economics);

Additional certifications like CIMA or ACCA is favored;

Minimum 3-5 years of experience in accounting, experience in general ledger accounting is a plus;

English advanced; German is a plus;

Good SAP R3 knowledge, Microsoft office advanced;

High communication skills and strong team spirit;

Oriented towards delivering high quality services and results; Self derived persons, structured, with analytical thinking skills;

Delivering Results is important

Additional Information

What we offer:

The 13-th salary – Paid once a year, in December;
Meal tickets - With a value of 40 Ron;
Private Health Insurance – Health is the most important, so we offer you a medical subscription through Signal Iduna;
Referral bonuses - We encourage colleagues to refer new candidates to us and, at the same time, to get the chance to receive a bonus;
Bookster – Feed your body and your mind. You can borrow books and you’ll receive them at the office;
Sports benefits- It’s important to stay active, so we offer you the 7Card;
Discounts at our partners – We collaborate with different vendors, and we receive discounts for various products/ services like rubbers, restaurants, kindergartens, etc;
System for Rewarding Improvement Ideas – We have an internal improvement program (Continental Idea Management) that gives you the opportunity to come up with ideas and to be honored with an attractive bonus (this is established by the CIM team according to your improvement idea);
Happy days – If you or your child is getting married, or you become a parent, you receive some extra free days;
Life events celebration - If your family is growing, we praise your newborn with a bonus;
Unfortunate events - In case of unhappy events in your life, we support you by offering you free days and financial support (handled on a case by-case basis);
Extra vacation days – You begin with 22 vacation days/year, and starting with the 3rd year with us, we offer you 1 more day of vacation and. We reward employees who reach 15 and 20 years within the company with another day of vacation, reaching a maximum of 29 days.
Professional development - Many opportunities to develop yourself within the company;
Diversity and multicultural mindset - We encourage you to join us no matter who, where, or what you are. We have colleagues from different nations and a variety of languages are spoken in our company.