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title: 'Senior Accountant at Zeeco'
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# Senior Accountant at Zeeco

- **Company:** Zeeco
- **Location:** Milan, Italy
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/zeeco/3e03e139-5625-41cf-809b-5f3e6f86c829

## Job description

Zeeco designs and manufactures advanced combustion and environmental solutions for industries such as oil & gas, petrochemicals, power, and LNG. It helps companies reduce emissions, improve operational efficiency, and meet environmental compliance requirements through products like burners, flare systems, and thermal oxidizers. For our italian HQ in Cinisello Balsamo (MI), we are now seeking a Senior Accountant to join our fantastic team.

This role is suited for an experienced accounting professional with a strong operational profile, able to ensure accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of accounting data, while contributing to a continuously evolving finance environment. The Senior Accountant works in and with the Finance team, supporting core accounting activities with a particular focus on general ledger, payroll and T&E accounting, tax operational activities, and fixed assets, and providing stability and reliability to the overall close process. The position reports directly to the Head of Finance Italy.

## Key Responsibilities

General Ledger & Closing Support

- Perform and manage general ledger accounting activities, including journal entries, accruals, provisions, and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Actively support month‑end, quarter‑end, and year‑end closing activities, ensuring deadlines are met and accounting data is accurate and complete.
- Prepare supporting schedules and documentation for closing and reporting purposes.

Payroll, T&E & Tax Operational Accounting

- Perform postings and reconciliation activities related to payroll costs, social charges, and related balance sheet accounts, incl. coordination with external providers.
- Manage T&E accounting and reconciliations, ensuring correct posting and consistency between systems and the general ledger.
- Support tax‑related operational accounting activities, including postings, reconciliations, and monitoring of tax balances, incl. coordination with external providers, with flexibility to support a broader in‑house scope in the future.

Fixed Assets Accounting

- Manage fixed assets accounting, including capitalization, depreciation, disposals, and reconciliations.
- Maintain accurate and up‑to‑date fixed asset records, ensuring consistency with accounting entries and supporting documentation.

Interfaces & Audit Support

- Act as backup and accounting interface for AP and AR activities, ensuring correct integration into the general ledger.
- Perform reconciliations between subledgers and the GL, including monitoring clearing and suspense accounts.
- Support internal and external audits, preparing documentation and providing explanations for assigned accounting areas.

Adaptability & Problem Solving

- Operate effectively in a changing environment, contributing to continuous improvement of accounting practices and processes.
- Identify issues, discrepancies, or inefficiencies and address them with a pragmatic and solution‑oriented approach.
- Collaborate proactively within the Finance team to ensure consistency, continuity, and reliability of accounting operations.

## Qualifications and Experience

- Bachelor’s degree in Economics.
- Proven experience  in operational accounting roles, audit, or similar environments.
- Strong hands‑on experience in general ledger accounting and financial close activities.
- Solid operational experience with payroll accounting, T&E accounting, tax postings and reconciliations, and fixed assets.
- Practical experience working with ERP systems (e.g. SAGE, SAP, Oracle, or similar) and strong Excel skills.
- High attention to detail combined with a structured and reliable execution mindset.
- Ability to work autonomously while collaborating effectively within a team‑based and international environment.
- Fluent English (minimum B2 level), written and spoken.

## What we are looking for

- A hands‑on and dependable accounting professional with strong operational discipline.
- Someone comfortable working in a continuous‑improvement context, where processes and tools evolve over time.
- A profile that combines accuracy, ownership, and a constructive, problem‑solving mindset.
- A team‑oriented professional who contributes to stability, quality, and consistency of accounting operations.

## What we offer

We offer outstanding opportunities for professional growth and career development in a dynamic, international environment, along with extensive training programs, flexible smart working arrangements, meal vouchers, and some of the best corporate events you'll ever experience.

RAL: 40-50K depending on working experience.

## About Zeeco

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Zeeco designs and manufactures advanced combustion and environmental solutions that help industrial clients reduce emissions, optimize processes, and comply with global environmental regulations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (privately held)
- **Headquarters**: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
- **Founded**: 1979
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (company was founded in 1979 in Tulsa)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Industrial combustion equipment, environmental solutions, including refining, petrochemical, LNG, power generation, pharmaceutical, biogas, and other process industries.
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily large-scale industrial facilities and engineering firms worldwide.
- **Mission statement**: “To remain the world’s premier provider of combustion, process technology, and environmental equipment and services, as perceived by the customer, the competition, and our people.” [zeeco.com/about](https://www.zeeco.com/about)

## Products & Services
- **Industrial Burners**: Ultra-low-NOx burners for various fuels.
- **Flare Systems**: Combustion devices for safe disposal of waste gases.
- **Thermal Oxidizers**: Systems for destroying hazardous air pollutants.
- **Vapor Control**: Vapor recovery and combustion units for storage and loading terminals.
- **Rental Equipment**: Temporary combustion and environmental equipment.
- **Aftermarket Parts**: Replacement components and upgrades.
- **Global Field Services**: On-site commissioning, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- **Combustion Electronics**: Control systems and instrumentation.
- **Fired Heaters (via Devco Process Heaters)**: Custom process heaters for refining and petrochemicals. [zeeco.com](https://www.zeeco.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Over 70,000 projects executed; 3,000+ employees across 30+ global locations. [zeeco.com/about](https://www.zeeco.com/about)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed (privately held). The company operates the world’s largest combustion research and test facility at their Global Technology Center in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
- **Growth Signals**: Expansive global footprint (locations in North America, Europe, Middle East, Asia); continuous hiring across engineering and service roles; large R&D investment with a 250‑acre campus.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Market leadership**: 45 years of innovation and established reputation as a global leader in combustion and environmental solutions.
- **Integrated capabilities**: Design, manufacturing, testing, and field service under one roof — including the world’s largest combustion R&D facility.
- **Extensive global reach**: 30+ locations and the ability to execute 10,000+ projects per year.
- **Heroic customer service**: Culture obsessed with long-term client relationships and personalized response. [zeeco.com/about/culture-community](https://www.zeeco.com/about/culture-community)

## Strategic Focus
- **Emissions reduction and sustainability**: Continuously developing ultra-low-NOx burners, advanced thermal oxidizers, and solutions that help customers meet tightening environmental regulations.
- **Global expansion**: Enhancing service capabilities in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe; bilingual and international hiring signals growth in new markets.
- **Innovation and R&D**: Ongoing investment in the world’s largest combustion test facility to improve efficiency and reduce emissions.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes technical excellence, teamwork, and a “heroic” commitment to customer service. Employees are encouraged to grow through mentorship and professional development.
- **Community and development**: The Zeeco Young Professionals (ZYP) program offers mentor/mentee matching, networking, leadership training, and community volunteer opportunities. [zeeco.com/about/culture-community](https://www.zeeco.com/about/culture-community)
- **Work environment**: Most roles are on-site (Tulsa, Broken Arrow, and global offices), with limited remote positions available (e.g., Field Service roles in the Middle East). Frequent travel opportunities for field engineers.
- **Perks**: Strong culture of internal growth, cross‑functional exposure, and potential to work on complex global projects.
- **Global footprint**: Employees can expect opportunities to travel or relocate to other Zeeco locations worldwide.

## Sources
1. [zeeco.com](https://www.zeeco.com/)
2. [zeeco.com/about](https://www.zeeco.com/about)
3. [zeeco.com/about/culture-community](https://www.zeeco.com/about/culture-community)
4. [jobs.lever.co/zeeco](https://jobs.lever.co/zeeco)

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