Job Title: Group Intercompany Analyst
Location: Casablanca, Morocco
Reporting to: Group IC Governance & Control Manager
About Us
Swissport is the world’s largest provider of ground and cargo handling services in the aviation industry. At Swissport we recognise the importance of innovation and the opportunities that emerging technologies, new data, and creative thinking bring to both challenge and inform established ways of working with the objective of delivering added value to our customers and partners; and supporting our continuous drive for improved effectiveness and greater efficiency in everything we do.
Job Summary
This key role is responsible for managing the Group’s intragroup transactions and their reconciliation. Working closely with the Group Treasury and Group Tax teams and country finance teams across the world, you will liaise with group and country finance management to ensure intercompany transactions are managed up to the highest standards.
Job Responsibilities
Processing
- Review details (both sending and receiving) of intercompany requests received and prepares intercompany invoices accordingly
- Validate and, if needed, check appropriate Intercompany accounting details (e.g. Entity code, GL accounts, Cost centre, etc.)
- Post intercompany journal entries on both sides for cross-company enabled locations and to one location if not cross-company enabled (mirroring)
- Work with appropriate accounting contact persons for Intercompany transactions not going through the mirroring process (e.g. loans, interest, dividend related transactions etc.)
- Ensures timely expense recognition (on both sides) for year-end including Intercompany related accruals
Reconciliation
- Perform preliminary and final Intercompany reconciliations for all locations
- Resolve intercompany reconciling items (exceeding the threshold) within month-end reporting timelines
- Resolve intercompany reconciling items (below the threshold) within a two-month time frame.
- Prepare formal balance sheet reconciliations on required timelines
Settlement
- Coordinate with Treasury for any settlement requirements
- Prepare payment and collection advises relating to intercompany for Treasury
Others
- Handle more complex locations (e.g. determines locations not accepting cross-company charges and the underlying tax or legal justifications for these) and complex transactions (e.g. requires tax codes that will ensure compliance)
- Provide data to Internal and External Auditors
- Identify process improvement opportunities and implements related projects
- May be assigned 1-2 weeks on a graveyard shift to cover cut-off and closing week
Qualifications and Competencies
- University degree (or similar) with specialization in finance and/or accounting
- At least 2 to 4 years of work experience in a similar role with an international group Global Job Description Template Job Description
- SAP experience is a must.
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office (especially Excel) and easy familiarization with new IT tools is a must, experience in financial consolidation systems is a plus.
- Ability and willingness to work in a high performance and diverse environment.
- Strong problem-solving skills and analytical skills
- Hands on approach and, self-master mentality
- Strong functional expertise and understanding/interest in end-to-end business processes.
- Ability to work effectively at all levels in an organization.
- Team oriented and independent working style is a must.
- Resilience, determination, accuracy and reliability.
- Ability to communicate accurately and efficiently in English on professional level, German language knowledge is advantage, but not a requirement.
- Eager to acquire experience and build a career in a high-performance environment with a strong teamwork spirit
