Accounting Professional (Fixed Assets) to Vattenfall

at  Academic Work Internal

As Accounting Professional you will be part of the fixed assets accounting delivery in Vattenfall and contribute to achieve the targets of the Accounting R2R department. Collaboration with a Business process outsourcing (BPO) provider will be one key task in addition to securing the delivery and optimizing the processes. We would like you to take on this change and contribute with your experience and energy to a successful transition and transformation.

Your main tasks and responsibilities: As Fixed Assets Accounting Professional you will assist all/selected companies within the Vattenfall group with complex accounting matters related to Fixed Assets matters. Moreover your duties will include:

• Set guidelines regarding asset structures (e.g. component approaches, business specific structures) and the usage of parameters in the SAP asset register (location fields, cost center usage, etc.)
• Analyse IFRS and local GAAP fixed asset accounting requirements for appropriate classification and valuation of new investment projects
• Apply IFRS, local GAAP and tax fixed asset accounting rules for appropriate classification of costs on investment projects according to Vattenfall requirements incl. set-up of asset (component) structures
• Support the information flow from Vattenfall to BPO provider Capgemini to handle the changes in SAP as required
• Support and contribute to the system closing activities, perform checks & controls and observe keeping the deadlines
• Support and execute asset impairments on asset master record level
• Deliver input to the financial statements / annual reports for all legal entities
• Act as fixed assets accounting expert for IFRS and at least one local GAAP you support the tax team in the specific country
• Support Group Accounting to implement new accounting rules (IFRS) and cooperate with the Accounting R2R country teams to harmonize IFRS application
• Observe and implement local GAAP changes in the served country
• Contribute to good relationships and good service towards internal customers and external suppliers / customers / BPO provider
• Execute services with high quality and timeliness of the delivery following common processes, policies and guidelines
• Provide process improvement ideas to process experts / process specialists
• Participate in development projects within FBS or group-wide / interdisciplinary projects