R2R Senior

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Purpose:

Responsible for complete, timely and qualitative execution of Accounting Operations for R2R according to the defined activity split. Accountable to the reliability of the financial statements in his/her scope of responsibility in accordance with accounting policy, considering the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and according to the country specific legislation and country specific tax compliant accounting treatment allowing a certification by external auditors.

Implement the best practice in relevant process and ensure SAP system design in line with group & subgroup standards to meet the business steering requirement from local and global.

• Be and act as the expert within assigned team, supporting and providing functional support to other colleagues.
• Step into the country operational topics and issues as expert where challenges and incidents occur.
• Be active part of expert communities and contribute to it through global calls and other media.
• Interact with key business functions (e.g. Controlling, Procurement, Product Supply, etc.) to ensure proper accounting for the particular areas of operation.
• Partner with the Center of Expertise (CoE) and expert communities to ensure globally defined standards and activity splits, as well as liaise with the GBS network regarding R2R issues and to implement desired and necessary processes and changes.
• Interact with internal and external auditors ensuring prompt response to audit requests. Perform appropriate ICS controls.
• Support local projects such as legal entity and system mergers, acquisitions or divestitures with expert knowledge.
• Initiate and support optimization projects and continuous improvement + OE/digital initiatives in order to improve quality and efficiency.
• Responsible to achieve Service Levels of Accounting in collaboration with GBS.

• University degree preferable in Accounting, Finance, Tax, Economics or relevant degree.
• Certified tax advisor or accounting certificate - beneficial.
• At least 2-3 years professional experience in Accounting, Controlling, Taxes, Financial Analysis or similar fields.
• Experience in asset management or lease accounting will be beneficial.
• Fundamental understanding of global accounting, controlling and tax processes and their point of intersection with other business processes.
• Advanced level of knowledge of technical accounting, and financial reporting in a corporate environment according to IFRS and local GAAP.
• Knowledge of German or other languages beneficial.
• Prior experience in executing technical projects (processes, organization and people).
• Intermediate in SAP FI / CO module, good overview of interfaces with other modules and advanced level of Microsoft Office applications, especially in Excel.
• Knowledge about usage of Data Analytics, visualization tools and methodologies to manage Financial Data quality (data structures and hierarchies, interconnected):
  • foundation knowledge of Power Query, Tableau.
  • foundation knowledge of Power BI or similar tools for analytics and visualization (can create, share and publish dashboards/reports, can identify areas for implementation).
  • foundation knowledge of Power Automate (can build basic solution or use templates, can identify potential areas of implementation).