Finance Assistant

**Finance Assistant - Temporary**
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**MAD0147**

**Description**

**A brighter future awaits you**

We create brighter futures - for our customers and for people like you who want to join our team, make a difference and go further.

As Finance Assistant, you’ll be part of a growing global business with a presence in over 40 countries. Which means you’ll have brighter opportunities to make a positive impact on our business and your career. This could include involvement in cutting edge new product development and international collaborations.

For a big company, we feel small. You’ll join a friendly team that’s open, flexible and respectful of each other’s differences.

We live by 4 values which define our unique culture; we are dedicated, we are inventive, we are friendly, we are partners. To help us achieve our goals, we’ll give you everything you need to help you achieve yours. We are brighter together, we’re the type of place where you can be yourself, whoever you are - we’ll achieve amazing things.

If you share our vision of helping our customers see more clearly every day, get in touch. All suitably qualified applicants will receive equal consideration and opportunities from CooperVision.

**Job Data**

**Job Title**:
**Finance Assistant**

**Job Code**:
**Salary Grade**:
P1

**Job Group**:
Finance

**Job Family**:
Accounting

**Level**:
**Location**:
Madrid, Spain

**Reports to**:
Financial Controller

**FLSA (US only)**:
**Job Summary**

This role will play a key, hands-on role in helping to ensure timely and accurate financial reporting, throughout the Iberia region, by providing accurate accounting activities and assisting with the maintenance of a secure and robust internal control environment. This role demands an extraordinary customer focus as well, treating with them on a daily basis.

**Essential Functions**
- Assist with daily basis accounting and month end closing.
- Ensure customer credit collection.
- Review and verify invoices and checks requests.
- Cash Management. Preparation, sending and accounting customer receipts batches and supplier payments.
- Monitor accounts receivable and other GL accounts. Aging report analysis.
- Sort, code, and book vendor invoices.
- Enter and upload invoices into system. Set invoices up for payment.
- Monitor expense reports GL accounts. Track expenses and process expense reports.
- Prepare and process electronic transfers and payments. Monitor accounts to ensure payments are up to date.
- Prepare and register accruals, taxes and depreciation journals.
- Post transactions to journals, ledgers and other records.
- Prepare bank and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Prepare analysis of accounts.
- Provide supporting documentation for audits.
- Prepare, maintain and organize accounting files.
- Prepare support documentation for Finance SOX purposes.
- Other administrative tasks.

**Qualifications**

**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**:

- Person methodical, organized, efficient, and proactive.
- Team player.
- Ability to meet deadlines.
- Strong organizational and prioritizing skills.
- Attention to detail and accuracy.
- Problem solving skills.
- Data Entry Management.
- Knowledge of general accounting procedures.

**Work Environment**:

- This role is based at Madrid office, in a normal office environment.
- Must be prepared to work extended hours on occasion.

**Experience**:

- Experience in a European subsidiary of a US multi-national (preferred)
- Experience of a matrix style organization

**Education**:

- At least 5 years general accounting experience.
- Native Spanish, written English would be a plus.

**Job***: Finance

**Primary Location***: Spain-Madrid

**Organization***: CVI Finance

**Schedule***: Full-time

**Unposting Date***: Ongoing