Accountant

For international outsourcing company we are looking for accountants in departments: Accounts receivable, Accounts Payable and General Ledger.

Knowledge & Experience:

• Fluent in English and good knowledge in one of the languages - French, Italian, German
• Master's Degree in business administration or completed upper secondary economics course with at least 2 years of relevant experience.
• Good practical knowledge and understanding of accounting
• Ms Office (especially Excel) literacy
• Service-minded
• Good analytical skills
• Good communication skills

Principal Accountabilities and Key Tasks for Accounts Receivable Department:

1. Support the Credit management process, including receivables control and key indicators reporting
2. Maintain customer master data
3. Ad-hoc or miscellaneous invoicing
4. Control incoming payments
5. Register incoming payments
6. Reconciliation of Accounts Receivable, bank accounts and subsequent accounts
7. Send out and follow up on reminders to customers
8. Customer contacts regarding payments and dunning
9. Work closely with customer service department across Europe to serve our customers in the best possible way
10. Efficiency Improvement and simplification of credit management process
11. Reconciliation of inter-company balances

Principal Accountabilities and Key Tasks Accounts Payable Department:

1. Receive and register vendor invoices from several European countries
2. Code vendor invoices
3. Maintain and update the templates for the electronic invoicing system
4. Potentially handle scanning and workflow of vendor invoices
5. Maintain authorization hierarchy in the system
6. Secure payments to suppliers in an accurate way
7. Secure payments of travel expense claims on time to Esselte employees
8. Maintain vendor master data
9. Handle reminders from suppliers
10. Reconciliation of Accounts Payable ledger and subsequent accounts
11. Secure payment of VAT and company taxes
12. Reconciliation and payment of inter-company balances
13. Handle contacts with vendors

Support the supply chain department within Esselte across Europe

Principal Accountabilities and Key Tasks for General Ledger Department:

1. General Ledger handling
2. Master data maintenance (Chart of Accounts, cost centre structure etc)
3. Transfer price model reconciliation
4. Project accounting
5. Reconciliation (all balance sheet accounts)
6. Perform sanity checks on accounts and the result of each local subsidiary
7. Assist during internal and external auditing
8. Close-the Books monthly, quarterly and yearly for the European subsidiaries
9. Submit data to the reporting system for group consolidation purposes
10. Year-end closing
11. Tax and VAT calculations and reconciliations
12. Fixed assets registerhandling
13. Support the European controlling function with information, data and reports on a regular as well as ad-hoc basis

Candidates with languages, proper education, but without experience may also apply for a vacancy.

Send us your CV and let's discuss all the details.