COMPANY PROFILE:
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
To manage the PTP Accounting process for the streams/sub-processes/countries under his/her perimeter.
- Main Internal interactions:
- Reporting to one of the Accounting PTP Stream/Team Leaders
- Interactions with ALL the other Finance functions across regions
- Interactions (mainly) with the following Business functions: Purchasing, Manufacturing, PARTS Operations.
Possibility to interact also with other functions depending on specific needs
Main External interactions:
- PTP/OTC Outsourcer
- Third party (including Iveco and FPT) suppliers
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Manage continuous operational interaction with the PTP back office (outsourced) on local specific issues/peculiarities; thus acting as a guidance/front office and ensuring a consistency of approach on the same activities, cross country/location.
Basically: act as a liaison between the CNH functions and the PTP back office, from an operational process perspective
- Participate to cross-functional tables or projects with the focus on the PTP process, in order to represent the Accounting function and related requirements and guidelines
- To directly perform or operationally coordinate bookings on SAP when required (booking of urgent invoices, issuing of urgent payments, etc.
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- To manage the requests and the interactions coming from local suppliers
- To manage interactions, communication, training, education of the local CNH actors of the PTP process, such as: plants personnel, depots personnel, local functions (finance, HR, marketing, purchasing), etc.
- Support the personnel of the Business and Finance Functions in solving the issues/discrepancies which prevent the correct booking/management of the suppliers invoices
- Provide structured and regular feedback and operational evidences to the Governance & Analytics Team (directly or through his/her Team Leader) in order to guide the relationship with the BPO at an aggregated level
Access and working on all the accounting and business data related to the PTP Accounting processes, such as:
- Suppliers data: master data, volumes of expenditure, critical suppliers, etc.
- Economical/financial data and performances, typical of the majority of the accounting positions: P&L data, Balance sheet data, budget, forecast, etc.
- Data related to the external business process outsourcer, for example: budget/expenditure/costs of the outsourcer, performance indicators, etc.
YOUR KEY COMPETENCES AND QUALIFICATIONS:
- MINUMUM REQUIREMENTS:
**Education**:
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Economics preferred or proved extended working experience in both Transactional (AP/AR) and General Ledger Accounting
Technical Experience:
- Minimum 2-3 years accounting experience in a financial Reporting/General Ledger/Transactional environment of an industrial company, or management consulting background acquired in Administration/Finance/Control environments
- Good knowledge of the typical PTP process of a manufacturing firm and its accounting impacts (AP/AR)
- Familiar with IFRS and/or US GAAP; experience on any European country local GAAPs is an advantage
- Basic/sound knowledge of TAX-related topics and processes: VAT (on different EU jurisdictions), Corporate TAX, Transfer pricing
- Good level of experience with the main ERP systems (SAP FI, CO, PA, SD, MM preferred)
- Familiar with the main enterprise reporting/consolidation tools (Oracle Hyperion, SAP BPC) is considered a plus
- Basic knowledge of import/export related topics, such as: Incoterms, VAT treatment, customs topics, transport documentation
DESIRED CHARACTERISTICS:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Fluent in English and Italian (spoken and written) is essential; any other European language is a plus, especially: Spanish, German, French
- Ability to cross-functionally interact effectively in a large, international, matrix organization and ability to work by project and by process
- "Make-things-happen approach" is a real key success factor
- Proactive problem solver, organized and target driven
- Ability to operate well within a team is a key success factor
- Ability to multi-task, work under pressure and meet tight deadlines required
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Familiar with Industrial Environment
- Organized, priority and target driven
- Results and Customer Oriented
- Ability to work under pressure and respecting tight deadlines
- Flexibility to manage extraordinary workload during month-end closing days (also night work if required)