Finance Administrator

Job Introduction

Serco is a specialist at delivering vital services on behalf of European, National and Local Governments.

Serco Europe employ’s a large workforce in Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Spain, Italy and the UK.

Our European operations have ca. 2,000 employees delivering critical services to public institutions throughout Europe. 

Role Responsibility

For our activities in ESOC, we are currently looking for a Financial Administrator.

The following position is offered as a fixed-term contract until 31/12/2018 with a possibility of extension.

The ideal candidate will support the ESOC Financial Operations Section, HIF-FOC, responsible for analysing, validating and approving all Agency (ESA) payments to suppliers and carrying out related financial operations.

This includes the following tasks and responsibilities:

-Supporting the verification and processing of invoices and Advances in compliance with the Agency's accounting policy, financial regulations, instructions and applicable (QMS) procedures (final invoice validation performed by ESA staff prior to Payment List execution), including:

• formal checks if document is to be considered an invoice and if an eventual VAT amount invoiced is justified;
• correctness of vendor master and bank data;
• for invoices without prior commitment: identification of correct account assignment;
• posting of invoices, de-blocking after verification against available Advances and validation of payment against Payment Lists;
• posting and approval/ unblocking of Advance Payment Requests / Down Payments in SRM/FI;
• control and clearing of Down Payments as per Offset-Plan

- Responding to invoice queries from industry.

- Interacting with Initiating Services ESA-internally with the objective to support the synchronization and workflows of invoices and Confirmations.

- Other ad hoc tasks in the area of accounts payable as per service request.

Successful Candidate

The successful candidate shall meet the following essential requirements:

• Good knowledge and at least four years' experience in Finance, preferably in the area of Accounts Payable;
• Good spoken and written English, fluency of German is an asset;
• Highly numerate, possessing the analytical skills to operate an complex accounting system;
• Good communication skills, customer focus an d and capacity to work under stressful situations;
• High degree of (desktop) computer literacy in MS-Office products and good knowledge of SAP-FI.

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Important

Any offer of employment is contingent upon you providing documents to verify your identity and employment eligibility, as required by law.

Applicants are reminded that they will be requested to produce such documentation during the recruitment process.

Please contact a member of the recruitment team if you require further details of acceptable types of documentation required for verification of identity and work authorization. 

For positions located within the Darmstadt Support Office please note that only applicants with no family affiliation within the Company will be considered.

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You may submit a written request revoking your consent to this agreement at any time.

Package Description

Full details on application.

Relocation assistance provided (if applicable).

About the Company

Serco Services GmbH, part of the Serco group, A FTSE250, Multi-national Service Provider with over 50,000 employees worldwide.

Serco’s space heritage over the last 40 years has placed us in the Space News Top 50 Space Industry Manufacturing and Services Companies - We work alongside EUMETSAT and the European Space Agency, where we are the largest on-site service provider with ca. 300 staff.

What connects the ever growing Serco workforce is a passion for delivering great service – To keep ahead we have to constantly evolve and enhance the way we deliver our services and everyone in Serco has a role to play here.

Serco provide the right environment to encourage ideas and a comprehensive Best Practice support network that enables them to put their ideas into action.

If you share our values then join with over 50,000 colleagues globally who are equally as passionate about delivering great service as you.

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