Financial Accounting Specialist
Client Note:
"*Position Target Start date: On or after December 1, 2024 and approved through 12/31/2025*
This role will overseeing the invoicing and PO orders for Microsoft and Azure licenses across the entire company. This person will manage PO request’s and overall steering and reporting of the IT department budgeting. This person will be leading these topics with an internal employee. Day to day this person would need to work within Excel, SAP, and SRM. Need someone that is a self-starter for this role.
Must have: Excel expertise
Nice to have: SAP, SRM, but this is also something they could be trained on. They would also be working within company specific systems they would get training on. There will be some reporting in PowerBI, but this is something that the person can be trained on. Agile working model is used within this team and if they have experience with that it would be a plus.
Onsite requirement: During onboarding phase this person needs to be 100% onsite but eventually can move to 2 days minimum onsite per week. " 40%
Qualifications:
Person is responsible for processing financial related activities within our real estate division within company, which includes financial data management (e.g. forecast, monitor accounts, reporting), process pay to procurement (e.g. payments, verification of invoices & POs) as well as general assistance in preparation of presentations, accounting statements.
Top 3 skills: 1) Experience in finance/accounting (either work or studies) 2)Reliability 3)Communication
Must have requirements: SAP experience (or Great Plains software experience), motivation, and positive mindset
Nice to have skills/experience: Experience with digitalization tools such as tableau, Power BI & others
Expected onsite 5 days a week but WFH is possible occasionally (e.g. one day per week) as soon as person does not rely on team mates and has gained full insight in processes.
Responsibilities:
Ensures that the forecasting data maintained in the Americas Region and Central Controlling/Munich is in synch.
Supports budget financial planning and reporting by assisting in the annual budget planning for all applicable cost centers.
Compiles and analyzes financial information to record transactions and prepare reports.
Ensures that all entries are correctly coded and entered into respective financial systems.
Investigates discrepancies to make appropriate adjustments.
Maintains monthly actual costs against budgets for department cost centers within Region.
Acts as the primary liaison for the respective Operations Managers and Department Manager on expense related topics.
Performs other financial operational tasks such as tracking PO requisition in SAP.
Performs required Goods Receipts for all POs within the Region.
Provides justifications for Investments/spending.
Researches, compiles, and analyzes data related to special projects.
Self-initiatively performs improvement processes and projects for own as well as departmental related.
Adheres to all CLIENT'S Group accounting and auditing policies and procedures.
Sets-up all energy accounts throughout the Americas.
Ensures all energy accounts are properly maintained and monthly payments are processed.
Prepares and reports monthly energy usage reports to energy manager and AG centrally.
Responsible for tracking, maintaining overviews, reporting and communicating of energy consumption.
Coordinates and monitors individual expenses to support he adherence of the annual budget, financial planning and reporting.
Performs other duties as assigned by CLIENT'S Group Operations Supervisor.
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