Accountant at Boehringer Ingelheim

Job description
Basic purpose of the job

• The Accountant performs/supports the transactional activities in line with the GBS principles as outlined below.
• The Accountant assists the Financial Manager in all transactional activities.
• The Accountant is the first point of contact for all transactional queries.
• The Accountant is the Key User for MDM (customer) and Key User for O2C.

Accountabilities

Related performance indicators

A2R -

• Establish accounting policies
• Set and enforce approval limits
• Perform period end routines & reconcile with subledgers
• Maintain fixed assets master data
• Perform fixed asset additions / disposals
• Perform period end routines & reconcile as well as CapEx projects
• Monitor tax compliance. Prepare taxes(current taxes, foreign taxes)
• Prepare monthly/quarterly financial reports
• Define archiving procedures and perform G/L archiving
• compliance with the GBS processes and procedures
• compliance with local regulations and laws
• accurate and timely performed period end routines

A2R -

• Define & perform year-end valuation. Perform inventory stock taking
• Business Analysis, Business Partnering, Standard and Ad-hoc Reporting incl. commentaries, Performance Management
• Maintain & Run Automated Secondary Business invoicing. Run Manual Secondary Business invoicing
• support Sales Planning, cost center planning, income statement planning (e.g.TM1 , Cost Planning Allevo)
• Supplier/Vendor Master Data Creation and Maintenance
• Scan incoming vendor paper documents
• Employee Expense Claims Validation
• Short/long term liquidity planning
• Payment run in ERP,payment of payroll,cheques and petty cash
• Perform period end procedures, inter-company accounting reconciliation

O2C -

• Standard orders, prepaid orders, CS activities, returns
• Credit/debit request
• Direct debits, cheque payments, receive electronic bank statements, match unclear payments, accounts reconciliation, due dates and aged debt reports, dunning and reminding, bad debt write off, credit hold releases, customer correspondence
• Customer contact, query and commercial complaints
• master data maintained accurately and timely
• expense claim process managed in compliance with the local procedures

Required Capabilities (skills, Experiences, Competencies)

• Degree / Honours or CA (SA)
• Minimum of Three years commercial experience in a similar position or 3 years registered SAICA Articles
• Familiar with ERP systems
• Good Microsoft Office skills especially Microsoft Excel
• Highly analytical
• Able to work well under pressure
• Strong personality, able to work with senior level management
• Deadline driven individual
• Self starter and energetic individual