Asset Accountant (FAP-ACC-GA-2026-214-LD)

Introduction 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. Functions You will:    - 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. At CERN , the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. Using the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments, they study the basic constituents of matter - fundamental particles that are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives physicists clues about how particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature.