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Join our Retail AP Team and advance your career as an AP Senior Accountant (German-speaking)!

The AP Senior Accountant is responsible to assure that all retail network related costs are processed in time and reflecting correctly in the retail P&L. Also, retail accountant is the first point of contact of the retail network operated in the supported country.

The teams ambition is to be the centre of excellence for invoice management and query handling with vendors/sites.  

In this role You will: 

• Review, analyse and process high volume invoices with accuracy.

• Manage a portfolio of vendor accounts and keep them reconciled and cleared.

• Perform daily/weekly invoice postings and related monthly reconciliation follow and adapt to the monthly business rhythm of the team.

• Complete the actions based on the weekly and monthly control reports.

• Interact in a timely and professional manner with assigned business units, vendors, Outsourced Service Providers and Business Facing Financials.

• Deal promptly with supplier and site related queries in order to secure payments in time.  

• Supervise own portfolio (supplier and stations), inform / involve all relevant collaborators in case of any anomalies detected following the agreed standard processes.

• Collaborate with vendors and internal and external partners of the retail network to resolve issues.

• Conduct analysis and investigation of any occurred incident in relation to the AP processes on assigned portfolio. 

• Identify key or high risk business situations and report, focusing on solving the issue in a timely manner.

• Use all communication channels to resolve issues and perform daily tasks (e.g.: call suppliers/sites not only send emails) be able to apply the best appropriate communication channel to be used to achieve the business goal.

• Responsible to communicate and collaborate with startegic partner(s) (convenience partner, agents...) of the retail network as single point of contact.

• Adhere to the Teams regular Key Performance Indicators

• Participate in Continuous Improvement efforts - Initiate, raise ideas and propose solutions.

• Performs journal postings in Blackline to ensure cost allocation to sites.

• Interface monitoring.

• Support Line Manager / Leads in all projects, systems implementations, strategic topics and any ad hoc activities needed.

• Ensure relevant, in-scope process related documentation is updated.

• Adhere with the tasks outlined in the EMS/QMS Systems of GBS Europe

What You will need to be successful: 

• Bachelor degree or equivalent qualification (with preference in Finance)

• Proven experience in accounting / finance (preferably P2P / AP)

• Fluency in German and English language

• Experience in SAP

• Good knowledge of MS Office tools (Excel, Word and PowerPoint)

• Communicate effectively both written and verbally