Process Specialist Finance

Company Description

Vattenfall is one of Europe’s largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat. Our main markets are Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the UK. The Vattenfall Group has approximately 20,000 employees. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming life through innovation for more than 100 years. We now want to make fossil free living possible and we are driving the transition to a sustainable energy system.

Job Description

Vattenfall is now looking for the right person to fill the position as Process Specialist Finance. You will become a member of the global Central Services Subledger Team that focuses on securing Service Delivery and optimizing processes. The Central Services team manages outsourced activities and contributes to group-wide projects and improvements from a process and system perspective. Beside the functional management of outsourced activities, the Central Services team as part of the retained organization will contribute to and manage group wide and interdisciplinary projects, changes and improvements from process and system perspective. In addition the Subledger relevant part of the internal & external control framework will be managed by the Central Services team.

As Process Specialist Finance you will support to achieve the targets of Central Services / Subledger and you will act as ambassador of the Subledger mission and strategy.

Your main responsibilities include:

• Process, maintain and support VAT checks and related processes with special focus on Germany and the Netherlands
• Monitoring VAT account clearing and intrastat reporting
• GRIR maintenance
• Support down payment processes
• Provide process improvement ideas to process experts / process specialists
• Support in exception handling
• Provide required information to auditors
• Participate in development projects within FBS or group-wide / interdisciplinary projects
• Drive automation and digitalization

Qualifications

• University degree or similar within business administration, process engineering or other relevant field.
• 3-5 years of experience within Finance operations in a Shared Service organization.
• Experience from working within transactional finance processes
• Experience from working with VAT related processes and good tax knowledge
• Good knowledge of Finance & Procurement processes, systems and requirements
• Detailed knowledge of the accounts payable and accounts receivable processes
• Good command of written and spoken English

Good command of written and spoken German will be beneficial as well as experience working in SAP.

As a person you´re a team player, have strong interpersonal skills and are able to create a climate where people are motivated to do their best. You strive for continuous improvement and have the ability to make sense of complex information to solve problems effectively.

Additional Information

The location of this position is flexible (Berlin, Solna).

We welcome your application in English, no later than April 25th 2024. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website.

For more information about the role you are welcome to contact hiring manager Sofia Björkén at +46730516726.

For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Jennifer Wikström at +46761002425.

Trade union representatives in Sweden are Rolf Ohlsson (Akademikerna), Christer Gustafsson (Ledarna), Juha Siipilehto (SEKO) and Anders Bohlin (Unionen). To get in contact with the representatives, please call Vattenfall´s switchboard +4687395000.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Diversity and inclusion – in everything we do. At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation. Read more on how we work with diversity and inclusion here: https://corporate.vattenfall.com/careers/working-at-vattenfall/diversity/

Since Vattenfall is a part of the Swedish critical infrastructure, many of our services are security classed. If this position is security classed the final candidates might be subjected to a security vetting process, according to the Swedish legislation.