General Overview

Summary

• Perform monthly account reconciliations and accounting entries.

• Entry level during which an employee receives both functional and organizational training under moderate supervision.

• Carry out assignments within well-defined practices, procedures and policies.

• Establishes cooperative relationships to work effectively with colleagues; supports others and participates as a team member.

• Responsibility for own work commitments.

• Engages in routine exchanges of information; interactions with external contacts, if applicable, would be monitored.

• Hybrid working environment

Detailed Description

• Prepares manual accounting entries and monitor system generated entries.
• Prepares monthly account reconciliations for a series of balance sheet accounts.
• Understanding of the balance sheet accounts in their scope of responsibility.
• Creates monthly reports to analyze variances between actual, forecast and plan.
• Takes independent action to gather ideas and gain consensus with cross-functional teams on process improvement recommendations.
• Communicates to ensure ideas are understood and accepts perspective of others.
• Writes effectively and makes internal presentations.
• Actively participates in team discussions.
• Shares ideas, knowledge and skills.
• Treats all team members fairly.
• Evaluates alternatives based on pros/cons.
• Provides input on how to manage required changes.
• Leads by example and is accountable for own actions.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Student or graduate of an economic university degree.
• Mandatory fluent English (B1/B2 user).
• System skills, including common office platforms such as MS Office (Excel knowledge is a plus), along with analytical skills.
• Good communication, negotiation and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy and working under tight time deadlines.
• Can distinguish between urgent and important issues and prioritize their work accordingly.
• Ability to evaluate, prioritize and problem solve a variety of tasks to ensure their timely and accurate completion.
• Ability to effectively communicate, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers.
• Generates reports with job-related software.
• Understanding of the capabilities of the tools can identify problems and trouble shoot input errors.

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a hybrid environment.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements are frequently required (e.g. data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc).

Typical Experience

• Zero to two years of experience in related field

Typical Education

• Student or Bachelor degree in related field, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Basic accounting knowledge is required.
• Accounting experience is a plus.

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