Job Summary: 

The Finance Assistant plays a significant role within the Gate Gourmet SSC Finance Team, supporting the Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and wider NWE Finance team with general accounting tasks.  

Key to this is building strong relationships within the SSC Finance teams, with vendors, customers, and other internal stakeholders to enable timely and accurate processing of transactions and query resolution. 

Main Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Assisting with the daily processing of invoices and matching to purchase orders 

• Investigation and resolution of queries relating to purchase orders and invoices  

• Assisting with Supplier Statement reconciliation 

• Assisting with the billing of contracted & one-time customers for Gate Gourmet Amsterdam 

• Review of Customer Accounts to ensure payments are posted & allocated promptly and accurately 

• Intercompany Netting and payment process, allocating Intercompany payments 

• Processing Travel expenses vis Concur 

• Maintaining Recurring Postings  

• Monthly review and reconciliation of GRNI account and other accrual G/L account 

• Intercompany loans & Cash Pooling Reconciliation 

• Fixed Assets creation, accounting and depreciation run 

• Posting Month-End journal entries as required 

• Maintenance of prepayment schedule, posting & reconciliation of prepayments schedule to relevant SAP GL accounts 

• Support with Ad-hoc tasks within the SSC GG AMS Finance teams  

• Management & maintenance of the archiving and retrieval of AP documentation for GG assigned country in line with company and relevant statutory requirements 

• Maintenance and update of process documentation and task list relating to Finance Assistant tasks 

• Fostering a culture of continuous improvement of AP working processes and controls within the SSC 

Qualifications 

Education:  

• Preferably to degree level, Masters degree desirable 

 Work Experience:  

• Previous, demonstrable accounting experience in similar roles  

• Experience with working with foreign currencies 

• Experience with VAT calculation 

Technical Skills: (Certification, Licenses and Registration) 

• Accounting qualification / part qualification (desirable) 

• SAP experience preferred 

Language / Communication Skills:  

• English in both spoken and written; German (desirable)