R2R Junior Subject Matter Leader - Payments

Your Tasks & Responsibilities
 

• Responsible for complete, timely and qualitative execution of Payments & Bank Accounting activities, be and act as the senior expert within assigned area;
• Interact with key business functions (e.g. Treasury, Accounting, Controlling, Legal etc.) to ensure proper accounting for the particular areas of operation;
• Partner with the Center of Expertise (and Global Process Governance to ensure globally defined standards and activity splits, as well as to implement desired and necessary processes and changes;
• Responsible for monitoring operations of the service delivery of automatic payments activities and monitoring key process metrics that measure performance;
• Manage global or regional centralized operational activities with End-to-End view (execution of automated payments, netting and interest calculation within In-House Bank and Manual Payments, execution of other non-standardized payments and direct debits);
• Manage local centralized operational activities with End-to-End view (In House Cash operations, In House Cash Dashboard  monitoring; contact to the house banks and  external SWIFT provider);
• Payments operations overall monitoring and issue solving;
• Contribute to local as well small global projects,
• Monitoring, creation and update of Supporting Documentations.
• Identify possible issues and subsequently manage changes. Perform and use escalation management.
• Manage operational effectiveness of internal controls and quality control systems.
• Identifying needs for trainings in accounting/financial areas or specified process across departments, train and support various stakeholders.
• Act as process lead in given area of responsibility.
• Personal drive on very high level - looking for improvements, motivating others, stimulating to act, to coordinate a group of key users/experts.

Who You Are:

• University degree preferable in Accounting, Finance,  Economics or relevant degree.
• Knowledge in Payments and  Accounting  Process.
• At least 5 years professional experience in Accounting, Controlling, Financial Analysis, Auditing or similar  fields preferably in a multinational environment.
• Knowledge in In House Cash Process.
• Experience in Payments and in Accounting Process
• English C1  (Fluent communication, both spoken and written)
• Knowledge of German or other languages beneficial.
• Advanced with enterprise-wide business systems (SAP) and proficiency of Microsoft Office applications.
• Experience in conducting and preparing trainings and/or workshops.
• Advanced level of capabilities to lead change, projects and initiatives.
• Advanced level of capability to collaborate task/project oriented without geographical, organizational or functional boarders.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities with minimal guidance.
• Proactively driving problem solving /troubleshooting
• Foundational level of ability to use Data Analytics, visualization tools and methodologies to manage Financial Data quality (data structures and hierarchies, interconnected) for various stakeholder and different purposes.
• Ensuring accountability and consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances
• Building partnerships / networks and working collaboratively with other to meet shared objectives
• Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity and authenticity (honors commitments of others & keeps confidences)
• Making sense of complex, high quantity information to solve problems