Accounts Payable Assistant
Warsaw, WP, PL
Explore a career at Fitch Ratings and you’ll join a collaborative network of curious minds. Here, our differences are our strengths - in life as well as our work. Together we work with integrity and objectivity to provide clarity to the world’s financial markets. We pride ourselves on our ability to harness the ideas, expertise, and professionalism of our global workforce, which is integral to our continued success. The accessibility and depth of experience of our industry leading analysts, combined with our broad sector credentials, allow us to help market participants make important credit decisions with confidence.
Fitch Ratings is currently seeking a Finance Analyst – Accounts Payable based out of our Warsaw office.
How You’ll Make an Impact:
To assist the Accounts Payable team (currently eight staff) covering Fitch companies across EMEA. Completing AP processes, accurately, and on a timely basis. This role is hands on, with the expectation that all tasks within the team will need to be covered.
- Ensure approvals are in place and accurate sorting, coding and matching of invoices
- Ensure accurate processing of intercompany invoices in SAP
- Preparation of twice weekly payment runs in multiple currencies
- Working with key stakeholders across the business to improve approval process
- Review of open purchase orders
- Support the implementation of Oracle ERP System
- Identifying prepayments and processing these correctly in SAP
- Working with the procurement team to improve our requisition process
- Assist with month end / year end tasks
- Assist with year-end audit
- Complete special projects and miscellaneous assignments as required
- Identify areas where processes could be made more efficient and offer alternative solutions
You May be a Good Fit if:
- Comprehensive Accounts Payable (AP) experience, including invoice processing, vendor management, and payments, preferably in a multinational finance setting within accounting and/or Procurement functions
- Excellent communication skills with cultural sensitivity; fluency in spoken and written English and Polish
- Solid understanding of basic bookkeeping and accounts payable principles
- Time management and workload efficiency skills
- Attention to detail
- Proficient in Excel including the use of pivot tables etc
- Readiness to go extra mile to avoid mistakes and produce new efficiency opportunities
What Would Make You Stand Out:
- Experience in posting invoices in SAP R/3 (or similar) with and without purchase orders as required
- Oracle R12 Accounts Payable experience
- Experience in processing employee expense claims is a plus
- Experience working in fast paced high volume environment
- Qualified or studying towards an accounting qualification (such as AAT or equivalent) is desirable
- Additional European languages will be advantageous
Why Choose Fitch:
- Hybrid Work Environment: 2 to 3 days a week in office required based on your line of business and location
- A Culture of Learning & Mobility: Dedicated trainings, leadership development and mentorship programs designed to ensure that your time at Fitch will be a continuous learning opportunity
- Investing in Your Future: Retirement planning and tuition reimbursement programs that empower you to achieve your short and long-term goals
- Promoting Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive healthcare offerings that enable physical, mental, financial, social, and occupational wellbeing
- Supportive Parenting Policies: Family-friendly policies, including a generous global parental leave plan, designed to help you balance career and family life effectively
- Inclusive Work Environment: A collaborative workplace where all voices are valued, with Employee Resource Groups that unite and empower our colleagues around the globe
- Dedication to Giving Back: Paid volunteer days, matched funding for donations and ample opportunities to volunteer in your community
Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forward-looking credit opinions. To protect Fitch’s credibility and reputation, our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interests or any appearance of a conflict of interest. Should you be successful in the recruitment process at Fitch Ratings you will be asked to declare any securities holdings and other potential conflicts prior to commencing employment. If you, or your immediate family, have any holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities, you may be asked to divest yourself of them before beginning work.
Fitch is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.
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