Accountant

Job Title: Finance Accountant

Location: Hamburg, Germany

Type: Hybrid

Primary Purpose of Job:

The primary purpose of this job is to take over local P2P (Purchase to Pay) processes for Finance and other Corporate areas and coordinate with the Center of Excellence Team in central Europer.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for P2P (Purchase to Pay) processes in the Hamburg Finance team including but not limited to BU coding of invoices, setting up shopping cards, PCARD reconciliation, vendor setup, etc.
• Administrating and monitoring orders and invoices in systems like SAP to make sure that invoices are paid correctly and that inaccuracies are settled and/or forwarded to the respective system administrators and/or support teams in
• Coordination and control of payments for investments including internal approval processes (outside of SAP)
• Support Cash Planning for local production investments
• Support Subsidy processes for Local Productions, including but not limited to submission scheduling, coordination of required documents with other departments, maintenance of subsidy overviews etc.
• Maintaining project data in local systems etc.
• Support and/ or participate in special projects
• Support internal and external financial audits
• Other duties as required

Required Qualifications/Work Experience:

Education

• Commercial Training
• Additional Finance qualifications such as Finanz- or Bilanzbuchhalter or CINA are an advantage

Experience

• Finance experience
• Practical experience e.g as Finanzbuchhalter, or a comparable position
• Experience with the process requirements of a multi-national group and used to work in an international business environment would be helpful
• Working in a process-oriented organization
• Ideally experience in working together with Centers of Excellence

Behavioral Competencies

• High level of service mindset
• High sense for accuracy
• Highly results focused
• Work in a multi-cultural environment
• Communicative, team oriented and open for change
• Ability to work in a well organized, accurate and reliable manner
• Basic business sense
• Excellent analytical skills & problem solver

Technical Competencies

• Good knowledge of Word, Excel, Outlook
• Sound Accounting knowledge
• Knowledge of ERP System SAP R/3 Module FI/CO is an advantage
• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively

Language skills

• Fluent German in speaking, reading and writing
• Very good English skills in speaking, reading and writing