About This Role
This role is for a finance professional to join the Shared Service center in Estonia, providing support to internal clients in Norway and Denmark. The specialist will oversee and coordinate various accounting processes, ensuring timely and accurate service delivery while actively participating in customer service and process improvement.
Responsibilities
- Establish open, good working relationships with assigned internal client(s)
- Work as a unique team and actively participate in the delivery of quality customer service
- Proactively promote the virtual team concept
- Oversee and coordinate the Accounts Payable processes from order to payment (pivot between the outsourcer and the internal structure and departments)
- Prepare month-end cost center accruals and prepaid expenses in cooperation with the controlling department
- Prepare VAT declaration
- Coordinate and supervise all administrative activities to arrive at trial balance preparation
- Streamline the process in coordination with the outsourcer
- Review the reporting constantly
- Push the local team to implement the process properly, but understand their complaints and work in change management
- Ensure service delivery is provided on a timely basis in accordance with specific timescales agreed within the Service Level Agreement (SLA) and standard processes
- Anticipate and proactively follow-up related matters required to complete the processes, ensuring deadlines are achieved
- Ensure that all the data in relevant systems are accurately maintained
- Oversee and coordinate the Cash Application process, coordinating the process made by the outsourcer
- Oversee accounting treasury processes related to cash management and foreign exchange derivatives
- Propose hedging contracts to the Treasury Department in coordination with the Controlling department
- Support the coordination of relations with external and internal auditors to ensure all statutory and regulatory deadlines are met
- Participate actively in the development and continuous improvement of PTP process and cash application
Requirements
- 3 to 5 years of experience in multinational companies (preferential for people who have worked in a Shared Service Center with subsidiaries in the Scandinavian Region)
- Knowledge in working with different currencies and knowledge of currency derivatives
- Consistent knowledge of the general ledger mechanism
- SAP and Excel proficiency
- Hands-on experience with systems and processes, with the capacity to improve and implement new solutions
- Fluent English
- Preferable at least one additional foreign European language knowledge (Danish or Norwegian)
