You validate creditor invoices, manage payments, and handle bank statements while ensuring compliance with regulations.
Anforderungen
- •Commercial/business education in accounting or finance.
- •Familiarity with accounting treatment of invoices.
- •Fluent in German and basic business English.
Deine Aufgaben
- •Validate and post creditor invoices using scanning software
- •Execute regular payments of creditor invoices
- •Manage ad hoc manual payments
- •Post bank statements and assign incoming payments
- •Process and review travel expense reports
- •Assist in ensuring adherence to regulations and internal controls
Original Beschreibung
# Accounting Specialist m/f/d - Fixed term contract 12 months
**Wetzlar, Germany** | **Full time**
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The **Accounting Specialist** **m/f/d** is responsible for independently managing key financial tasks for our supported companies, with a focus on creditors and debtors accounts as well as banking operations.
This position reports to the Senior Finance Manager Selling Units Europe and is part of the Finance Service Center Europe located in Wetzlar, Germany and **will** **be an on-site role.**
**In this role, you will have the opportunity to:**
* Validate and post creditor invoices using advanced scanning software.
* Execute regular payments of creditor invoices and manage ad hoc manual payments.
* Post bank statements and assign incoming payments to open debtor items.
* Process and review travel expense reports for Leica employees in the supported companies.
* Assist in ensuring adherence to all relevant regulations and internal control rules
**The essential requirements of the job include**
* Commercial/business education with a focus on accounting or finance.
* Familiarity with accounting treatment of invoices (ex: gross/net)
* Fluent in German and ability to communicate in basic business English, other language is a plus
**It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:**
* Usage of ERP (ideally SAP)
* Accounting team in an international environment
**Der Accounting Specialist m/w/d** ist verantwortlich für die eigenständige Verwaltung wichtiger finanzieller Aufgaben für unsere unterstützten Unternehmen, mit einem Fokus auf Kreditoren- und Debitorenkonten sowie Bankgeschäfte.
Diese Position berichtet an den Senior Finance Manager Selling Units Europe und ist Teil des Finance Service Center Europe in Wetzlar, Deutschland und **wird eine Vor-Ort-Rolle sein.**
**In dieser Rolle haben Sie die Möglichkeit:**
* Kreditorenrechnungen mit Hilfe fortschrittlicher Scanning-Software zu validieren und zu buchen.
* Regelmäßige Zahlungen von Kreditorenrechnungen auszuführen und ad-hoc manuelle Zahlungen zu verwalten.
* Bankauszüge zu buchen und eingehende Zahlungen offenen Debitorenposten zuzuordnen.
* Reisekostenabrechnungen für Leica-Mitarbeiter in den unterstützten Unternehmen zu bearbeiten und zu überprüfen.
* Unterstützung bei der Einhaltung aller relevanten Vorschriften und internen Kontrollregeln zu leisten.
**Die wesentlichen Anforderungen des Jobs umfassen:**
* Kaufmännische Ausbildung mit Schwerpunkt Buchhaltung oder Finanzen.
* Vertrautheit mit der buchhalterischen Behandlung von Rechnungen (z.B. Brutto/Netto).
* Fließend in Deutsch und Fähigkeit zur Kommunikation in grundlegender Geschäftssprache Englisch; weitere Sprachen sind von Vorteil.
**Es wäre von Vorteil, wenn Sie auch über Erfahrung in folgenden Bereichen verfügen:**
* Nutzung von ERP-Systemen (idealerweise SAP).
* Arbeit in einem Buchhaltungsteam in einem internationalen Umfeld.