Site Accounting Support

Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.

As part of a global community of talented people, you will grow and thrive working on advanced technologies for greener, safer and smarter mobility. Our company culture gives all our employees the opportunity every day to #Dare.Care.Share. You will receive a best in class, total compensation package that provides a comprehensive benefits program with real financial value.

About the Role:

As Site Accounting Support, you will:

1/ Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) Governance & Liaison

• Operational Liaison: Act as the primary escalation point and interface between Site operations and the SSC to unblock invoicing bottlenecks and resolve complex supplier queries.
• Data Integrity & Quality Assurance: Oversee the integrity of P2P Master Data and optimize validation tool settings to eliminate system and capturing errors.
• Compliance Stewardship: Monitor supplier down-payments and govern Travel & Expense (T&E) exception approvals to guarantee strict adherence to Group compliance policies.
• Specialist for the tools: teach and train newcomers (at site level) with group standard tools related to the P2P process
• IC (Intercompany) reconciliation: ensure that full explanations are completed for SSC reporting and follow action plan 
• Supplier solving issues: Follow report of all components return (mvt 122) & secure with logistic Credit Notes collection & missing receptions. Alert and communicate to Site Financial Controller all logistic, quality incidents and prices litigations.
• Local hotline: for suppliers to deal with issues in the local language when needed.
• For China and where it is needed: Provide payment supporting documents to Bank for oversea non POBO payments and coordinate to fulfill Non-Trade system and uploading mandatory contracts

2/ Invoice-to-Cash (I2C) Partnership

• Master Data Oversight: Ensure all AR Master Data creation requests are accurately validated and transmitted to the SSC, while providing expert support to local SITE teams on system processes.
• Dispute Administration: Standardize and oversee the workflow for customer debit notes, ensuring they are promptly routed to the correct local SITE stakeholders for validation and resolution.
• Manual invoicing: Check and guarantee that the customer pre-requisites are fulfilled for manual invoicing in line with VAT / customs regulations.

3/ Asset Lifecycle Management & Governance

• Acquisition & Activation Control: Coordinate local asset data collection in strict accordance with MAF rules, steering the initiation of activation requests and SAP internal order or BS settlements. Start of depreciation with support documentation from site (proof of entry in service)
• Leasing Governance: Manage the digital leasing tool pipeline by executing new lease creation requests and securing all mandated documentation for SSC processing.
• Asset Stewardship: Lead and organize the biennial physical inventory count, ensuring a robust, formalized process for the disposal or sale of fixed assets.

4/ Record-to-Report (R2R) & Audit Readiness

• Reporting Excellence: Guarantee the accurate and timely execution of site-specific requirements, including environmental reporting, insurance campaigns, and mandatory statistical declarations.
• Closing & Compliance Support: Ensuring defined standards for EAGLE closing binder local inputs (including staff expenses, FA roll-forward, off-balance-sheet commitments, etc…). Attend the meetings between GL SSC & Site FC and ensure the fulfillment of defined action plans.
• Audit Coordination: Serve as a site contact for internal and external auditors, tracking deficiencies and driving the timely execution of agreed action plans. Must escalate to the RIC or Anti-fraud office any internal control incident.

In case of functional network leading responsibility (Country lead or Division lead):

• Team Steering: Align for all Finance Business  Partners across Country / Division the execution of activities in line with SSC standards.
• Escalation Management: Act as the ultimate contact point for critical or unresolved operational bottlenecks between local site management and the SSC.
• Performance Tracking: Monitor team KPIs, ensure SLA compliance, and drive continuous process harmonization across all financial streams (P2P, I2C, FA, GL).
• Perform training activities to FBP across Country / Division in order to ensure the right use of new tools or new standards
• Center of expertise in case of complex topic related to the position
• Ensure the interface between the site FBP and the Regional SSC

What You Should Have:

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field is required.
• Excel experience is required, SAP preferred. 
• You have good communication and can work autonomously

Join us!

Thanks to its strategy focused on innovation, Valeo aims at reducing CO² emissions and developing intuitive driving to propose greener, safer, and smarter mobility.  

The fantastic (r)evolution towards the vehicule of the future provides amazing career opportunities and challenging jobs!

Diversity by nature
At Valeo, innovation is driven by the diversity, authenticity and energy of its talents. You are looking for new technological and human adventures? Join Valeo and its more than 100.000 employees across the globe! More information about valeo : https://www.valeo.com

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Being part of our team, you will join:
- one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development
- a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration
- more than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth
- a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development

More information on Valeo: https://www.valeo.com