Senior Accountant at Ferrero

About the Role:

• Assure accounting quality, in compliance with tax and accounting law constraints as well as correctly applying internal controlling rules. Supervise all the "Procure to Pay" and "Order to Cash" processes, ensuring the proper management of administration issues as receivables, payables. Responsible for proper treasury and credit management in compliance with Group guidelines.

Main Responsibilities:

• Execute general, suppliers and clients administration activities, posting on fixed asset, on inventory movements and other related activities
• Manage the receivables and payables accounts, billing and invoicing, as well as client’s credit analysis, aging preparation, payment analysis and reconciliation, etc.
• Perform Plant revenues analysis (profit and loss statement)
• Execute general, suppliers and clients administration activities, posting on fixed asset, on inventory movements and other related activities
• Where applicable, manages relations with Business Process Outsource provider of financial activities and gives data and information
• Supervise the deployment of Internal Audit rules (at local level), with support of GRC (Governance Risk Compliance)
• Assure compliance with legal constraints in order to safeguard Company assets and avoid dishonest behaviors
• Guarantee the correct application of civil-fiscal principles and norms as regards all treasury issues
• Supervise various activities related to the management of cash, short term borrowing and investments
• Plan the organization's financing needs and provides for those needs by issuing securities.
• Supervise monthly closures and ensures the respect of deadlines
• Assure that accounting flows are compliant with Group reporting standards
• When exceptional expenses concerning production service and related activities occurs, provide a related quantitative evaluation, in order to define balance adjustments
• Provide support in the execution of Plant related Group assets’ inventory activities according to Group guidelines
• Share outcome with Group accountable figure in charged for approval
• Ensure the reliability of Plant data management.
• Provide required reporting timely
• Work in touch with Group Departments in order to correctly deploy Group guidelines
• Detect anomalies within financial information systems, communicates with involved Departments in order to determine causes, provides detailed corrections on financial data and (when possible) proposes durable improvements
• Present to Plant Management reports on Plant financial status
• Involve and monitor the relationship between the Company’s tax affairs and its Corporate reputation.
• Work with the various teams in mitigating Tax Risk for their activities
• Monitor changes in legislation impacting the business from the tax risk management perspective
• Analyse the consequences of new tax regulations and consequently recommends actions
• Support in the definition of tax policies and operations underpinning on the analyses of tax implications of the Ferrero Group's activities, projects and investments
• Manage all insurance dossiers in order to safeguard Company assets
• Apply Group policies and integrates them with additional actions when required, in order to solve local issues
• Manage accident follow-up
• Policies and compliance: manage the Country Credit Function within the given Group guidelines (Credit management Group Policy), monitoring and reporting the Company’s commercial credit exposure
• Customer Segmentation: perform creditworthiness evaluation for all new customers, according to the Group methodologies by adopting external and internal ratings, turnover, and seasonal payment reliability
• Monitoring and Operations: develop and maintain a system credit losses reporting and performs debt collection by negotiating with main credit-impaired debtors in order to recover due amounts

Who we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required
• 5 years of experience in FMCG or big international companies as Country Finance Administration or Senior Accountant
• People management skills is required.
• Capacity to manage pressure & high expectation from the local BU or Group
• Project Management
• Excel expert
• SAP