Accountant

Scope of the role:

The role of Accountant is to support the Accounting & Controlling Team in the country.

The holder of the role will be a hard-working professional able to work diligently under pressure. This person will be comfortable with working in a developing environment, respecting all applicable policies and procedures and identify effective ways to achieve better results.

Responsibilities:

Main job responsibilities:

BOOKEEPING / TREASURY / REPORTING

• Checks the trade-related invoices (the format and the content of the invoices, signatures status according to internal criteria), ensure proper bookings done in the front-office system before being send to SAP and paid;
• Review/book the selling/general & administrative invoices and follow the non-trade procurement process flow. Prepare ad-hoc reports;
• Book fixed assets additions/disposals and maintain FA Register;
• Monitors and analyses the accounts payable, reconciling the balance with suppliers. Perform daily reporting the Local Team; Monitor for non-reconciling items between front-office and back office system;
• Monitors and analyses the accounts receivable, reconciling the balances with clients. Perform daily reporting the Local Team; Monitor for non-reconciling items between front-office and back office system;
• Monitors and analyses the selling/general & administrative accounts and monitor performance versus budget: consumables, services;
• Prepare payment packages and request payment approvals from the Group, daily. Respect the deadlines and communicate actively with other Team members, the cash-flow forecast. Be responsible for cash pool maintenance, including cash inflow/outflow advise to the Group, month-end balance reconciliation. Be the first point of contract to Group Treasury Team and Banks-related matters;
• Perform timely and accurate booking of bank statements;
• Prepares non-trade accruals at the end of the month;

DATA MAINTENANCE and COMMUNICATION

• Create and maintain vendors details and bank accounts information in the master data governance system, provide support at bank details confirmation process and ensure accurate data inflow in the front office system;
• Archives accounting/legal documentation;

REPORTING

• Assist the weekly/monthly reporting process (to the Group, to the Banks – ad-hoc, Internally, to Tax Authorities);
• Prepare/support with the daily/weekly/monthly Group reporting packages;
• Participate and support in monthly VAT reporting;
• Other activities within Accounting department (ex. supports the preparation of the annual statements, support the external auditors, or any other requested reports, that is capable to create and report)
• Fully support the Senior Accountant, Chief Accountant and Country Controller in their daily activities

COMPLIANCE

• Ensuring compliance with COFCO Policies and procedures.
• Executing any other job request from direct and dotted-line managers that is linked with business activity.

Requirements:

• Education in Accounting/Financial area
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a multi-national company
• Previous experience or knowledge of the industry is a plus
• Very good MS Office knowledge
• Experience with ERP/SAP
• Proficient English speaker
• Diplomatic personality
• Good communication and people management skills
• Accurate, on-time deliverables
• Analytical abilities
• Able to work under pressure

Building relationships (internally- externally): 

• internally: 
  • with the other members of local organization (Trade team, Contract Admin team, Execution team, Logistics team, Finance & Controlling team)
  • offer support to Local Controller/Chief Accountant
  • with Group departments (Geneva Treasury, Trade Finance, CE Finance Team)
• externally: company’s business partners (suppliers and clients)