Finance Assistant

Location: Frankfurt, Germany
Work pattern: Full time - 40 hours/week
Department: Control and Assurance
Reporting to: Treasury Manager

The Opportunity

This Finance Assistant will support the provision of institutional level assurance on the efficiency and effectiveness of ASE financial controls, undertaking such work as required to deliver improvements to internal controls and governance to protect its value. The function is pivotal for successfully delivering these objectives, driving effective changes as well as designing, embedding, and delivering processes for our future control and assurance needs.

Job Responsibilities

• Procurement to Pay (P2P)
  • Take ownership of vendor bill processing
    • Checking and validating bills received against approved budget / PO
    • Ensuring all bills are processed correctly in EPR system, include correct coding such as subsidiary and VAT
    • Obtaining relevant approval as per group control policy
    • Maintaining aging records to ensure approved bills are paid as per group policy (T +30 on 22nd of each month)
    • Dealing with queries when arise both internally and externally, ensuring any disputes and/or payments without bills are properly followed and resolved in a timely manner
    • Maintaining up to date vendor details, as well as ensuring our records held by vendor are up to date
  • Vendor bill payment processing
    • Managing bill payment process, ensuring correct payment information are setup in the banking system for release by 2nd level approvers in a timely manner
    • Liaising with vendors ensuring payment remittance is documented and communicated
• Dealing with other ad-hoc tasks assigned by management

Requirements

• Degree in Finance, Accounting or equal by work experience
• At least 2 years' experience of accounting regulations
• Excellent working knowledge of Excel, Word, Outlook
• Experience using NetSuite accounting software advantageous
• Ability to work in a fast-based environment and meet deadlines
• Accurate and affinity with numbers, analytical skills and detail orientated
• Excellent communication and team working skills
• Pro-active and hands-on, self-motivated
• Fluency in German and English
• Right to work in Germany

Apply

To apply, send an up-to-date CV and a cover note to careers@ampyrsolareurope.com

About us

AMPYR Solar Europe (ASE) was created in 2021 through the merger of NaGa Solar with the existing AMPYR Energy UK solar joint venture between AGP Group and Hartree Partners. The merger created a major European Solar Enterprise with a combined pipeline of over 4GW of large-scale ground- mount and rooftop solar projects in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands and a team of over 30 experienced renewable development professionals.

The ASE team has recently secured a €400 million facility with CarVal Investors to support their plans to bring over 2GW of solar power capacity into operation by 2025. It is an exciting time in the evolution of the business, and we are looking for energetic, committed people to help us deliver our vision and help to decarbonise the European electricity market.

What we offer

• Competitive compensation, including performance bonus
• Hybrid working
• Pension plan
• Health care and dental insurance
• An active environment in a fast-growing market
• Great opportunities for growth within an international and dynamic organisation
• Good balance of independence and teamwork