Junior Accountant in Travel and Expenses - Gdansk

Join our Source to Pay team as a Junior Accountant and thrive in a fast-paced environment! You’ll be part of a dynamic team, handling diverse tasks and collaborating with global stakeholders in English. In our multinational company, you’ll gain hands-on experience, develop new skills, and make an impact from day one. If you're looking for a fresh challenge, love problem-solving, and want to grow your career in an inclusive company, we want to hear from you!

About the job

At Arla, our Source 2 Pay (S2P) department is crucial to maintaining our financial system's efficiency. We are seeking a motivated Junior Accountant to join our S2P team, focusing on managing vendor payments through SAP Concur. In this role, you will track and record payments accurately and on time, using SAP Concur to streamline and enhance process efficiency.

You'll handle employee expense claims, ensuring compliance with company policies, and assist employees in navigating the SAP Concur platform. This includes addressing expense submission inquiries, guiding best practices for claims, and troubleshooting issues.

Your efforts will help maintain strong partner relationships and ensure smooth financial transactions, contributing to our daily financial operations.

Specifically, your responsibilities will include:

• Verifying incoming expense claims by applying standard procedures and ensuring compliance with company policies.
• Processing employee expense claims, ensuring accuracy and adherence to guidelines.
• Assisting employees in navigating the SAP Concur platform, addressing inquiries and providing best practice guidance.
• Handling incoming emails and phone calls, addressing discrepancies related to expense claims and escalating issues as needed.
• Monitoring open items and perform internal control checks to ensure data integrity.
• Collaborating with other departments to streamline financial processes and enhancing user experience in SAP Concur.
• Coordinating the onboarding of new employees regarding SAP Concur usage and training.

What will make you successful:

• Strong attention to detail and accuracy in all financial tasks.
• Improvement mindset with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Excellent ability to build positive relationships within the team and across departments.
• Proficiency in English.
• Solid knowledge of MS Office applications, particularly Excel.
• Customer-oriented attitude, ensuring a focus on stakeholder needs.
• Completed or ongoing educational background in accountancy or finance.
• Awareness of fraud and the ability to identify potential risks.
• Experience with SAP, SAP Concur, or other ERP systems is a plus.
• Identifies with Arla's values:

Lead: Takes initiative and shows commitment and passion.

Sense: Demonstrates integrity and an open mind, recognizing opportunities in a global context.

Create: Embraces creativity and learning in a collaborative environment.

What do we offer:

• Flexible working time (start your day of work between 7-9) and home office work possibility.

• Trainings with experts & professional induction in a new position.

• Financial support of your education.

• Medical care & life insurance.

• Additional benefits like gym card, vouchers, travel points or cinema tickets, etc.

• Scandinavian working style & no dress code.

• Home kit – monitor, laptop, keyboard, mouse, headsets, webcam.

• Relocation allowance.

• Referral program for employees.

• Employee Assistance Program (legal, psychological, health, financial consulting, etc.).

• Support for your healthy lifestyle (fruit day, facility for sportsmen, sport challenges and activities, Arla active teams / sport groups).

… while in the office you can also use some of below: 

• Modern office space with beautiful view and high standard furniture (i.e. adjustable desks).

• Chill-out rooms with X-box, pool table, board games, football table and swing.

Application and contact

Apply and join our vibrant S2P team as a Junior Accountant, where you'll tackle diverse challenges, collaborate with global stakeholders, and kickstart your career in a fast-paced, inclusive environment!

Application deadline:

We have a purpose for Good 

At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you? 

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