Administration Accounting Continuous Improvement, Parma Parma

Administration Accounting Continuous Improvement, Parma
Parma
Emilia Romagna, Parma

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Posted:08. 02. 2025

Expiry Date:25. 03. 2025

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Job Description:About us Barilla is an Italian family-owned food company.

Established in 1877, it's now an international Group present in more than 100 countries.

A world leader in the markets of pasta and ready-to-use sauces in continental Europe, bakery products in Italy and crispbread in Scandinavia, the Barilla Group is recognized worldwide as a symbol of Italian know-how.

"The Joy of Food for a Better Life" is Barilla's purpose to bring people closer to the joy of good food and making quality the choice for a better life.

It's a commitment from field to fork, to bring to the world tasty, joyful and wholesome products, made with selected raw materials from responsible supply chains.

Because what we eat today can change our tomorrow.

Because good food is a joy for the present and a choice for a better future.

Job Purpose To become part of our Transactional Service Team based in Parma-Pedrignano. To promote and foster the continuous improvement of transactional processes.

Guarantee the process compliance and the achievement of the objectives in terms of service level and performances of the Administrative Shared Service Center transactional service (Account Payable, Account Receivable, Cash Application, Payment Accuracy) provided by the Business Process Outsourcer (BPO) granting the Group's governance model and ensuring the local statutory and tax compliance.

Identify areas of improvement aimed at boosting productivity or solving possible issues, analyze possible solutions to be implemented leveraging new technologies, identify change management possible impacts, and implement new solutions dealing with the local business stakeholders and the BPO to ensure process execution.

Being a Subject Matter Expert of the process to guarantee that all the processes in scope are performed properly and in a timely manner, ensuring homogeneity of the processes and that best practices are identified and adopted in all geographies.

To carry out daily and continuous monitoring of the activities performed by the BPO, ensuring that there are no backlogs regarding the performance of the processes indicated above.

To be in constant alignment with the Barilla Stakeholders of the reference Regions and Plants for the monitoring of activities and the management of urgent and priority issues to be addressed at the service center and the sharing of the achieved KPI's.

Responsibilities To assure the Accounts Payable and Receivable closing's procedure, granting that all is accomplished according to both managerial and statutory deadlines.

To perform balance sheet and P&L reconciliations for the accounts under Accounts Payable Italy responsibility, leading other team members.

To perform recurrent internal controls on team activities, by monitoring Accounts Payable processes.

To supervise and coach the other team members in order to guarantee the correct application of the accounting processes and procedures which grant the timely and quality production of the trial balances.

To review the job done by the other team members in order to optimize the performance as well as to mitigate and lower the error-rate.

To supervise the Business Process Outsourcer KPI's and activities in order to identify issues/risks/delays that could prevent the achievement of the defined targets and escalating to the Transactional Service Manager.

To keep a high-level of knowledge on internal processes and procedures.

To lead training sessions for other units (e. g.

Market & Process Units) in order to offer adequate support to make the process smoother.

To develop and update existing work routines and processes, including updating desktop procedures.

Requirements Bachelor in Economics and/or Master of Science Economics.

2 years' experience in transactional services, auditing, integrated accounting or similar roles.

Mandatory English; French or German would be considered a plus.

Soft skills: people management capability; team builder; ability in communication; results-oriented, problem-solving attitude; analytical skills; past experience in dealing with external suppliers.

What we offer Permanent contract.

Challenging environment that requires continuous improvement to face every year higher expectations on service level leveraging on structured and standard processes with increasing volumes.

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