# Chief Accountant

**Company**: Ajax Systems
**Location**: Istanbul
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Chief Accountant to join our team in Istanbul. As a leading international tech company and the largest manufacturer of security systems in Europe, Ajax Systems offers end-to-end solutions for protecting homes and businesses of any scale.

### Responsibilities:

#### Team Leadership:

- Manage, mentor, and develop a team of 2 finance and accounting professionals.

- Organize workload, delegate tasks, and ensure high quality and accuracy of output.

#### Reporting & Big 4 Audit:

- End-to-end responsibility for Tax, Statutory, and Group Management/IFRS reporting.

- Supervise and successfully pass Big 4 audits (both for group consolidation purposes and for securing/confirming PIT tax exemptions in the Free Zone).

#### ERP Implementation (SAP):

- Play an active key role in designing, implementing, and rolling out SAP for the local entity.

#### Reconciliation & Customs Accounting:

- Reconcile customs records with local bookkeeping and financial accounting.

- Ensure compliance with all accounting and reporting specifics of the Desbas Free Zone.

#### Operational Controls & Inventory:

- Supervise scrapping processes, scrap accounting, and components returned to suppliers.

#### Payroll Review:

- Perform high-level reviews of payroll calculations, social security compliance, and proper reflection in accounting and reporting.

#### Tax & Government Relations:

- Direct interaction and liaison with Turkish tax authorities, customs officials, and the Desbas Free Zone management administration.

#### Transfer Pricing (TP) & Profitability:

- Monitor Transfer Pricing compliance and ensure proper gross margin control for the local entity.

#### Ad-Hoc Duties:

- Execute other finance, operational, or business-related tasks as assigned by the Deputy Group CFO and company management to support business growth.

### Requirements:

- 5+ years in a senior accounting/finance leadership role within a manufacturing enterprise.

- Deep understanding of Turkish Free Zone regulations and tax incentives.

- Hands-on experience with SAP (ERP) implementation/usage and Big 4 audit procedures.

- Turkish , Fluent / Native (essential for interaction with tax authorities, customs, and auditors).

- English , Upper-Intermediate / Advanced (for regular interaction with Group HQ and executives).

### We offer:

- A strong and well-coordinated team of professionals.

- Ambitious tasks and challenges.

- Being a part of the emerging leadership in the security space.

## Skills

### Required
- Turkish
- English (upper-intermediate/advanced)
- SAP (ERP)
- Big 4 audit procedures
- Turkish Free Zone regulations and tax incentives

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