The Role
The Cost Accounting Specialist manages daily accounting tasks such as processing invoices, travel, and expense claims. Responsibilities include performing closing work, collaborating with stakeholders, providing technical support, and enhancing operational efficiencies, while ensuring compliance with guidelines and controls.
Summary Generated by Built In
Your tasks:
- Works in the day-to-day business of his/her department, in which he/she process all accounting-related activities for invoices, travel and expenses (incl. corporate cards).
- Checks, allocates accounts, and posts invoices, travel and expenses (incl. corporate cards) and prepares payment and travel runs.
- Performs all monthly, quarterly and year-end closing work, for example by preparing all relevant postings and creating balance statements.
- Works with internal and external stakeholders (e.g. Tax, HR, Financial Account & Controls and IT).
- Is the contact person for day-to-day operations (e.g. for returns, handling special cases and technical questions).
- Provides technical support to the Payments specialist in creation of concepts (e.g. support work for technical concepts, for example, for the implementation of system requirements due to regulatory changes).
- Supports the Payments specialist in evaluating the knowledge gained from the operational processes in order to define and implement efficiencies (e.g. makes his/her knowledge of the operational day-to-day business available or tests implementations in the test system).
- Edited guidelines, work instructions and process documentation to minimize the risk of findings from internal and external controls.
- Represents and supports the Expertise Lead Request2Pay and the Specialist In Payments on technical issues (e.g. by creating presentations, creating evaluations or decision templates.
What we are looking for:
- A completed degree in business administration with a focus on accounting or a completed commercial training with subject-specific additional qualifications
- At least 2 years professional experience in accounts payable (ideally bank)
- well-founded standard IT knowledge and the subject-specific software (SAP)
- B.1 Level of French Language knowledge; preferably
- C.1 Level if English Language knowledge
- Good knowledge in dealing with MS Office products
- A high level of commitment, resilience and stress resistance
- Solution-oriented approach
- Solid analytical skills and a structured and independent way of working
- Strong Communication skills, ability to work in a team and a desire for responsibility and new challenges as well
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