Key Responsibilities

Position: Accounting Assistant
Territory: Belgium

Position Purpose:

This position exists to support the accounting operations within Phibro European Operations Center. The job consists to support the administration of supplier invoices, daily bank encoding, accounting of marketing expenses, follow up and check of expenses report. The position will also be involved in the monthly and annual report of the company as well as in the establishment of the annual budget. 

Key Responsibilities:

•    Encode Suppliers invoices in our accounting system (JDE)
•    Encode Receivables invoices in our accounting system
•    Encode Suppliers/receivables cash/payments in our system
•    Control the Expenses Reports and do the matching with vouchers/slips
•    Manage the inventory reconciliation and issue the Corporate Month End Report
•    Manage the Intercompany transactions and issue the Month End Report
•    Manage the Finance requested Month End Report as: PPE Rollforward, Rent Month End information, Cash file situation…
•    Manage the local VAT submissions. 

Qualifications:

•    Accounting degree
•    A first experience with a private company and preferably in the nutritional, veterinary or medical area.
•    Experience with ERP i.e. JD Edwards, SAP is an asset
•    Willing to work within a small team with a lot of interactions with external colleagues.
•    Manage the communication between all the parties involved in the customer orders (sales director, technical specialist, warehouse, customs, transport, customer, finance…)
•    French and English languages are mandatory, other additional language is an asset.

Key Competencies Required:

Technical:

•    Understand the basics VAT submission and Belgium Gaap Package 
•    Understand accounting & basic finance operations. 
•    Competency required with Microsoft Office 

Personal skills:

•    Motivation/drive, well-motivated self-starter
•    Organization and planning
•    Integrity
•    Independence
•    Resourcefulness
•    Disciplined work habits
•    Flexible