Invoice Officer (Maternity Fill)

at  Nyrstar

ABOUT NYRSTAR

Nyrstar is an international producer of critical minerals and metals essential for a low carbon future. With a market leading position in zinc and lead, Nyrstar has mining, smelting and other operations located in Europe, the United States and Australia and employs approximately 4,000 people. Its Corporate Office is based in Budel-Dorplein, the Netherlands.
The company’s operations are located close to key customers and major transport hubs to facilitate reliable and efficient delivery of raw materials and distribution of finished products. Nyrstar’s operating business is wholly owned by Trafigura, one of the world’s leading independent commodity trading and supply chain logistics companies.
For our Corporate Office located in Budel-Dorplein, we are seeking an Invoice Officer (Maternity Fill) within our Logisitcs Department, reporting to the Global Head of Logisitcs.

JOB SUMMARY

The role controls the processing of all commercial freight invoices globally for the Nyrstar group. The related inter-site, inbound and outbound vendor transport modes include bulk and container shipping, truck, barge and train. Operational aspects of the role include the management of freight invoices, end of month accruals, vendor account report extraction and pre-analysis, SAP system data entry and master data management, with a focus on continuous improvement in the control of our freight costs and the efficiency of our invoice processing. To succeed in this role, it requires a focus on accuracy and attention to detail, data processing proficiency, and good communication skills with key stakeholders in Europe, US and Australia including our Back Office, Accounts Payable, Finance and Logistics teams and our Freight vendors.

QUALIFICATIONS, WORK EXPERIENCE AND REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or similar area required
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a similar role.
• Proficient in English, additional languages is a plus.
• Hands-on experience in SAP (MM, S&OP, SD, FI). Exposure of other modules will be an advantage.
• Microsoft Office skills (strong in Excel, Word and Outlook).
• Demonstrated teamwork and cooperation abilities.
• Attention to detail and process orientated.
• Organizational and professional communication skills.
• Fast work pace.
• Time management and ability to work effectively under pressure.
• Motivated, reliable and friendly.

• Checking, processing and approval of pre-invoices and invoices (including PO (purchase orders) and creation of accruals).
• Analyze daily shipment cost report and validate accuracy.
• Upload and maintain transport rates in SAP.
• Maintain Logistics Master Data in SAP.
• Perform month end close processing: Accruals and PO close.
• Reporting of invoice control performance against agreed KPI’s.
• Continuously improve the invoice control process.
• Create and maintain process documentation (Standard Operating Process and Flowchart).
• Identify opportunities to charge back freight costs to customers and suppliers.
• Identify and manage minor system improvements.
• Support the reporting improvement project.
• Key invoice control KPI’s.
• Variance actual invoice value vs accrued invoice value.
• Variance actual invoice freight rate vs standard freight rate.
• All invoices processed before end of month and paid by the payment terms.
• Correct invoice cost account allocation.