Finance Specialist – make your mark on our finance management

Do you want to work with finance management in a truly global organization? And would you like to collaborate with our customers to ensure satisfaction and find the right solutions?

Then grab this opportunity to join a great team of tight-knit colleagues in a hybrid workplace where we’ll help you off to a good start and offer plenty of opportunities for you to grow.

In this position you’ll be able to make your mark on it. Also, you can truly see the impact of your work reflected

Join the tesa Finance team

tesa is a global leader in adhesive tape solutions. As you step into our Cluster North headquarters in Allerød, you will be welcomed by the local Finance team consisting of 5 colleagues in a welcoming open office environment.

Moreover, you become part of our international Finance team responsible for performing vendor-, bank-, and local tax-related financial reporting and processes by following internal and external policies and regulations in collaboration with internal Shared Service Center Accounting (SSC). The team of 6 works from different locations – your manager is based in the UK, and the team’s other finance specialists are based in France, Belgium and the UK – however, you will quickly find that we are just a video call away.

We collaborate closely within the team and meet up regularly online to catch up and share feedback

As our new finance specialist, you will efficiently act as first level support for indirect purchasing in SAP and Ariba, you will manage purchase order creation, invoice control, ensure correct procurement authorization workflows and their correct posting in close collaboration with SSC located in the tesa HQ in Hamburg, Customer Support, and Sales.

More specifically, you will:

• Handle vendor payments communication
• Execute compliance check (internal and external) for travel expense claims, ensure correct postingand perform credit card reconciliation
• Prepare intercompany credit and debit notes, handle external documentation requirements, and endure correct processing and posting
• Act as first point of contact for local bank related matters
• Purchase Order creation and Procurement to Pay activities
• Support the tax and contributions compliance related to external providers (e.g. VAT, customs, green tax, pension)
• Matrix Authorization update
• Risk Control Matrix internal execution

Additionally, you will work with internal and external audits and continuously improve your own area of responsibility and support related to IT tools implementation initiatives

Experienced finance specialist with great communication skills

Your great communication skills will quickly come into play as you liaise with internal and external stakeholders to ensure compliance and risk control and support the Procurement to Payment process. You work independently, always paying close attention to every detail while at the same time easily adapting to changes and ambiguity.

Also, we imagine that you:

• Have an educational background in business, economics, or finance
• Have solid experience working within key financial processes (Procure to Pay and accounting)
• Have experience with audits
• Have experience working in a multinational matrix organization
• Have a strong service orientation and customer focus
• Work autonomously and self-driven, while proactively seeking support when needed
• Know your way around Excel (pivot, lookup formulas) and MS Office in general
• Have knowledge of SAP FI or a comparable ERP system
• Speak and write English effortlessly
• Speak one Scandinavian language

We will make sure you get off to a good start

In addition to a modern office, good colleagues, and a delicious lunch, you can also look forward to a hybrid work environment where you can work from home 2 days a week. A thorough and detailed onboarding program will ensure that you are introduced to every aspect of your new role and our complex organization.

And the development opportunities are plentiful, as our Learning Hub gives you the possibility to advance your skills and add to them.

For more information about tesa, our products and our organization check out this video.

Ready to join us at tesa?

Please follow the below link to submit your resume and other required information.