Accounts Payable - General Accounting Specialist - Howden Thomassen Compressors B.V.

The Accounts Payable-General Accounting Specialist delivers a valuable contribution to the accuracy and completeness of the financial administration and is responsible for performing the accounts payable and general accounting processes as efficient and effective as possible. Hereto the Accounts Payable-General Accounting Specialist initiates and delivers improvement initiatives to the aforementioned processes.

Important aspects herein are: optimizing the accounts payable, SOX and general accounting processes to reduce waste, improving processes in own department and processes which interact with other departments and making sure that accounts payable, SOX and general accounting processes are known and back-ups in the processes are available.  

General

• Contribute to an accurate and complete financial administration;
• Deliver improvement initiatives onto the process flow and in the support activities and take part as team member in projects that target improvements;

General ledger accounting

• Process general journal entries initiated by yourself or colleagues;
• Initiate and process the monthly accruals and provisions;
• Responsible for VAT and ICT returns and the journal entries regarding the returns;
• Responsible for balance sheet reconciliations;
• Responsible for intercompany reconciliations and reporting;
• Responsible for accurate cash forecasting;
• Support the month-end close as well as the quarter- and year-end close;
• Registering shortcomings within the SOX compliance, managing, and supervising the repair of these shortcomings.

 Accounts payable/cash and bank records

• Review, verify and process vendor invoices accurately in Easy-invoice system;
• Ensure that invoices are recorded to the proper general ledger account, project/cost center and tax code in the proper accounting period;
• Review and maintain vendor data together with Procurement;
• Responsible for timely resolution of all invoice discrepancies;
• Monitoring the interfaces between Easy-invoice, ISAH and Accountview;
• Process bank statements in AccountView system;
• Initiate and process bank payments in AccountView and banking system.

Expense reporting

• Liaises with SSC to ensure proper reporting of expenses;
• Ensures expense reports are processed accurately and timely within the critical processing deadlines;
• Resolves expense report discrepancies or issues; researches and explores answers and alternative solutions; implements solutions; escalates unresolved problems.

Howden Reciprocating and Centrifugal compressors (HCR) is a specialist supplier of tailor-made gas compression equipment to various industries. Our products have made a valuable difference for our clients for the past 100 years. The latest chapter of our history is as a Chart Industries company, having been acquired in 2023. The strategic combination of both companies expands our offering of products and solutions across the Nexus of Clean™ - clean power, clean water, clean food and clean industrials. The complementary nature of the equipment and solution portfolios results in a differentiated offering across many industries benefitting customers by enabling a more complete solution to their operational and engineering needs.

We offer an interesting and challenging position within a professional, international organization with freedom to act, improve processes and the opportunity to work with a variety of stakeholders. As we consider talent management as key to the success of our organization, we offer opportunities for personal and professional development. Potential future positions could be within other Howden locations, a horizontal or vertical move within HCR. We offer a salary package that is fully in line with the level of the position, and which is supplemented by an extensive package of fringe benefits.

• Mbo/hbo degree in Finance or Control;
• A minimum of 3 to 5 years’ experience in a similar role (accounts payable, general accounting, SOX);
• High level skills in working with Excel;
• Preferably experience with Easy Invoice/ISAH/Dynamics 365/AccountView;
• Fluent English language skills, both verbal and in writing.