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Financial Accountant 100%
Barcelona, Spain
Your contribution
In this dynamic and hands-on role, you will be responsible for managing accounts payable and accounts receivable activities for Tecan entities in Switzerland, ensuring accurate, efficient, and timely processing of financial transactions. You will oversee vendor invoice processing, payment runs, customer collections, account reconciliations, and VAT reporting, while maintaining accurate financial records and resolving queries with internal and external stakeholders. Working closely with local finance and controlling teams, you will contribute to smooth accounting operations, compliance with internal policies, and continuous improvement of processes within the Finance Shared Service Center.
The objective and scope of the job is to provide accounting service to Tecan entities in Switzerland, ensuring that assigned tasks in supporting Accounts payable (AP) process are performed at expected levels in terms of quality and throughput/ productivity. Collaboration with ad hoc activities within accounting.
Responsibilities:
- Accounts payables:
- Maintain vendor master data accurately
- Process vendor invoices including verification, coding (GL accounts, cost centers, tax codes, etc.) and obtain proper approval according to the Delegation of Authority
- Take responsibility for all queries (internal and external) relating to vendor invoices and solve problems to ensure correct invoice data and quality
- Maintains inter-company accounts and performs reconciliation of differences for month end procedures
- Monitor vendor open items
- Execute payment runs in SAP
- Ensure proper electronic regarding of vendor invoice documentation
- Prepare and reconcile VAT tax returns and make tax payments
- Accounts receivables
- Perform collections activities as per defined SOP and monitor customer open items
- Maintain Accounting Customer master data
- Post incoming customer payments in SAP
- AR reporting – monthly or biweekly calls on AR and down payment situation
- Investigate, communicate and coordinate internally and with customers to resolve timely open issues in AR and Collections
- Ensure dispute escalations are properly handled
- General
- Travel expense processing activities in Concur, ensuring compliance with the travel policy
- Support in optimizing processes and structures within accounts payable
- Cooperation with accounting and controlling
- General administrative activities
- Special tasks and projects in consultation with supervisors
Your background
We’re not just looking for hard skills - we’re looking for people who bring their passion and talent to work.
- Education: A degree or qualification in Accounting or Business Administration, or a related field, or an equivalent qualification.
- Additional education: Training in accounting
- Experience: 3 years in a similar position.
- Languages: Fluency in English, German and Spanish
- Systems: Experience with SAP FI/CO, knowledge of taxes (VAT), experience In Coupa/Kofax will be a plus
- Personal qualities: We’re looking for a team player in a multi-cultural environment, with ability to work independently and a continuous improvement in mindset. Being flexible and open to learning as well as being a good communicator will be positive considered.
What makes working at Tecan unique
The chance to make it count and to have an impact on the world of tomorrow
- Working in an international and diverse environment
- The chance to grow your career within the company
- Feel empowered by our strong and unique company culture
- Comprehensive compensation and benefits package
Join Tecan, a great place to work! Read about our recent certification from Great Place to Work.
We’re looking forward to receiving your application online. Please submit your CV or resume (w/o picture and w/o cover letter, reference letters and diplomas are optional).
Our purpose.
At Tecan we are driven to improve people’s lives and health. We do this by empowering our customers to scale healthcare innovation globally from life science to the clinic. We collaborate with our customers from early-stage innovation through project implementation and beyond. We deliver the products, services and solutions that make lab processes and medical procedures precise, reproducible and compliant.
Stay unique and make it count.
Our values - trust, highest standards and ambition - are the cornerstones of our business and provide the framework for Tecan's culture. We foster a positive and empowering environment where our rarest assets, our unique employees, can grow and bring their passion and talent to work.