General Accounting Associate

Posted:
9/30/2024, 9:53:38 PM

Location(s):
Stadtilm, Thuringia, Germany ⋅ Thuringia, Germany

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Accounting

Job Description

Join Accenture and help transform leading organizations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance.

  • Perform core business process transactions including data entry, data capture, and data verification according to standard delivery solutions.

  • Timely and Accurate processing of invoices to meet agreed cut-off range.

  • Respond to information requests by searching, compiling, and summarizing results in requested format.

  • Assess and resolve problems following defined incident notification and escalation procedures. Serve as a technical/functional resource or super user to other team members.

  • Provide functional, technical and/or administrative support to resolve Supplier problems and queries, including self-serve supplier base.

  • Log supplier requests, troubleshooting efforts and information to ensure proper documentation.

  • Attend and respond to incoming calls for supplier queries.

  • Monitor and track incidents to ensure resolution occurs within the Supplier Service Level Agreement.

  • Managing mostly Payment and Treasury scope with AP/AR reconciliation skills & accounting background as a plus.

What skills & experience are we looking for?

  • 12 months relevant work experience in accounting.

  • Prepare and process journal entries in accounting software and workflow tool based on input received and retrieval of financial info from group-specific system.

  • Perform analytical tasks based on financial info provided and report any gap/variance on monthly expenditure.

  • Perform monthly critical and non-critical accounts reconciliation.

  • Preparing monthly financial reports and financial statements on client ERPs.

  • Produce standard correspondence by following existing templates, adhering to client formatting and quality standards.

  • Audit own journal posting for accuracy and make required corrections before deadline.

  • Become a subject matter expert for complex accounting processes/tasks

  • Document all new learning(s) or change in processes in the standard format and seek relevant approvals on a periodic basis.

  • Participate in governance calls with client for process improvement initiatives or special projects as assigned.
  • Meet established goals and objectives and deadline for client deliverables.

  • Strong accounting background – HSC with Accounting, ACCA Level 1 or Degree in Accounting / Finance.

  • Reliable and flexible.

  • Available to work CET (10:30 am – 7:00 pm & 11:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.).

  • Attentive to details/figures.

  • Accurate in accounting processes.

  • Excellent communication skills – both written and spoken

  • Team Player.

  • Strong analytical skills and efficient planning skills.

  • Proficient in MS Office – Word, Excel.

  • SAP Knowledge will be an advantage.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 750,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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Accenture

Website: https://accenture.com/

Headquarter Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1989

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Grant

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