Europe North Purchase to Pay & Record to Report Specialist

Triumph is one of the world’s largest intimate apparel companies. It enjoys a presence in over 80 countries with the core brands Triumph® and sloggi®. Globally, the company serves 20,000 wholesale customers and sells its products in more than 2,300 controlled points of sale as well as via several own online shops. The Triumph Group is a member of the amfori Business Social Compliance Initiative (amfori BSCI). Learn more about Triumph on: www.triumph.com www.facebook.com/Triumph/ www.instagram.com/Triumph/ www.linkedin.com/company/triumph-international/

Our Finance North Department in Swindon, UK is looking for a:

Europe North Purchase to Pay & Record to Report Specialist (f/m/d) (100 %)

This is a temporary role – maternity cover for 1 year

This role provides essential support to the Nordic and GB Finance Teams by handling various finance and administrative tasks. Key responsibilities include ensuring timely vendor payments while adhering to established controls and fostering strong relationships with non-finance team members and SSC Accenture teams across the Purchase to Pay and Record to Report streams.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Supporting the offshore AP processing teams to ensure timely and compliant processing of supplier invoices across entities in region Europe North (Nordics, GB)
• Ensure accuracy and completeness of financial data including coding and VAT liabilities
• Review employee expense submissions for compliance including backup
• Participate in AP workflow tasks
• Review payment runs for timeliness and accuracy across the countries in Europe North.
• Manage payment controls to ensure compliance with company policies
• Building and maintaining excellent working relationships with external vendors to ensure that internal process needs are met
• Work in collaboration with the Account Payables SSC processing team, providing local guidance to ensure local compliance and review of PTP key performance indicators, attending monthly governance calls
• Support the master data team and key business users with the new vendor set up process including autonomous verification of bank details
• Review and perform monthly supplier statement reconciliations, investigating and resolving any differences
• Compliance reporting for various countries in Hub North countries, duty reporting, statistical mandatory reporting
• Accounting support related to YE audit across the regions, including upload of documentation to auditor’s portals and providing supporting information to the audit team
• Monthly Inter-company netting process support including review of monthly out charges
• Various finance tasks in SAP – preparation of journals
• Work collaboratively across international and cross-functional teams, other ad hoc support to the wider finance & operations teams as and when required

Your ideal profile:

• You have solid experience gained in Accounting, Finance or Administrative department within a fast paced, dynamic, international and growing organization
• You possess an Accounting or Business Administration background with proven track record in Accounts Payables, knowledge of invoice processing, vendor payments, banking, credit card and bank reconciliations
• SSC and GL experience would be an advantage
• You are familiar with MS Office Suite, Sap 4HANA
• You possess personal initiative with a positive mindset and a highly collaborative approach
• You possess strong communication competencies and flexibility, as well as analytical, inter-personal skills
• You speak English fluently, Nordic languages knowledge is highly beneficial

Why should you join us?

• You will have an opportunity to work for a market leader
• You will join an international and multicultural working environment
• You will have the opportunity of development in the Fashion industry
• You will benefit from the hybrid working policy of the company
• You will never walk alone

As a family owned business with more than 135 years of experience, Triumph embraces diversity throughout our global organization. Currently, our offices are present in over 40 countries across Europe and Asia having many international teams collaborate together every day. Guiding our corporate behaviors are respect and value for our employees, but also Collaboration as one of our key Corporate Competencies, being a core part of our every day working environment.

Make a Difference, together

The future belongs to our children. At Triumph, we want to be proud of our commitment to building a sustainable society and protecting the environment, and we work everyday to ensure our products are manufactured in an sustainable way. This is our vision: We want to be a company that is characterized by responsible leadership and consideration for future generations and that cares for the legacy that we leave behind to our children.

Putting People at the center

At Triumph we are committed to our employees, they represent the foundation for our success. This means that as a company, we are driven to offer great career opportunities in a dynamic fast-paced organization. Our HR function across the globe strives to support our employees in their development, through our Triumph Learning Academy. We continuously strive to recruit new talent, offering them one of the textile industry’s most international working environments, excellent conditions and great development opportunities in a company still owned and managed by the founding families. Our headquarters employs people from more than 30 nationalities and as a European company, we are present in many key markets in Europe, like Germany, Italy, France and growing in Eastern Europe. We are proud to have become one of the leading players in Asia very early on, in countries like Japan, China and Singapore, as well as being an employer that people aspire to work for. As a company serving women, we fundamentally believe in gender equality and diversity. Women make up more than 50% of our company’s workforce. In the last years, we have had a specific and successful drive to increase the number of women in management. Triumph is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.

If you are seeking a great opportunity to develop your career, please send us your CV in English by clicking on Apply.