French Speaking (Senior) AP Accountant (Transition)
Our multinational partner company is looking for French speaking AP Accountant candidates for its exciting Transition Project from France.
Why it is a good opportunity for you:
- Working in a successful organization
- Hybrid working: 3 days home office and 2 days office
- Health & Safety: highest standards and a wide range of health promotion and healthcare activities (Medicover package)
- OTP Szép Card: Gross 39.000 HUF / month and annual bonus
- Pension: they have various financial models to give you individual support
- Training and education programs to help you develop professionally and personally
Job summary:
- Be involved in the transition of accounting processes from European entities to Hungary and actively shape a new SCE in Budapest
- Prepare, validate and regularly update Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) and Desktop Procedure
- Be involved in day-to-day operations in the following process areas (not exhaustive)
- Document receipt
- Invoice verification and processing
- Outgoing payment processing
- Reclaims & corrections
- AP Closing and periodical activities
- Be adherent to agreed service levels, policies and procedures, Quality check of AP invoice processing
- Determine, evaluate and resolve issues,
- Identify and work on process improvements
- Engage in collaboration with the business and stakeholders to develop a professional relationship
- Be the ambassador of our organization towards our Suppliers
- Provide qualitative customer service
- Ensure that all process manuals/relevant work instructions are created and updated on a regular basis
- (Coach and train junior team members, conduct onboarding training)
- (Support Senior and Team Lead colleagues in reaching the team's performance against deliverables set in the SLAs)
Requirements:
- College or University degree (preferably in Economics or Finance with major in accounting or equivalent qualification)
- Minimum of 3-4 years of experience in accounting (primarily AP in an SSC environment)
- Transition experience is beneficial
- Very good understanding of the AP processes
- Continuous Improvement and Quality (CI&Q) mindset
- Strong customer orientation
- Strong English and French language skills (ideally Hungarian skills as well)
- Very good knowledge of SAP FI or other ERP system
- Enthusiasm for establishing and ramping up a new Shared Service Center
- Ability/willingness to travel (2 to 6 weeks periods for knowledge transfer- when circumstances allow to do so)
- Self-starting attitude and ability to work independently
- Strong team-player
- Ability to pay close attention to detail and prioritize the right things at the right time
- Excellent communication skills
- Self-starting attitude and ability to work independently
- SME, E2E approach, finance knowledge, taking the ownership, root cause identification & analyzing, creating / owning action plan, driving process improvement, open to give / receive feedback
