Global IT Finance Specialist

  • Full-time

Company Description

At JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS we are inspired by our belief that it’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee. We are driven by the vision that everyone deserves the coffee they love.
What’s it like to work at JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS?
We are proud of our passionate, driven associates that challenge the status quo and pursue mastery in everything they do. Our goal is simple and ambitious – JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS: A coffee for every cup

Working with us means you’ll be making an impact in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. We work as a team, celebrating success and supporting one another. Our associates work with a diverse group of like-minded people, in an innovative environment committed to doing the right thing – all across the world. What you do here will get noticed.

Job Description

The Global GIS Finance Business Operations Team is accountable for management of all financial activities related to IT at JDE. The team reports to IT management and has a strong relationship to the JDE finance team. The Global GIS Finance Team supports the IT community in the successful delivery of their services. This includes financial support for the delivery of projects and the ongoing support; calculating the cross charge rates to the business for all project and operation cost to ensure the all but accurate cost are charged; performing financial data analysis; maintenance and configuration of budgets related to finance for IT; performing the periodic month, quarter and year end closes; working with vendor management and other IT departments related to PO management, goods received, invoices, credit notes and WBS release in the financial systems. The team is also responsible for the IT wide time recording for the month.

The Global GIS Finance Specialist is member of the Global GIS Finance Team. This role performs day to day business operations tasks such creating projects in the SAP system, managing invoices and month end close time registration. This role also performs financial analytics such as analysis of the financial close, prepare and management of reports, tracking of various budgets, work with the Global GIS Finance Manager on the identification and execution of improvements regarding Business operations and financial analytics. This role supports the Global GIS Finance manager in a successful completion of all the deliverables of the team.

The key goals of the Global GIS Finance Specialist are:

Business Operation- 50%

  • Create Project Budgets in the system and align with PM’s the financials of their projects
  • Managing PO’s and incoming invoices in cooperation with Vendor Management
  • Operational Month End Close and Year End Close in cooperation with Finance
  • Month end close time registration management

Finance analytical – 50%

  • Analysis regarding Financial closes
  • Prepare internal and management reports.
  • Tracking and analysis of various budgets
  • Improvements in processes regarding BO and FA
  • Ad-hoc analysis

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in finance or business administration with a finance focus

  • Understanding of IT processes and their interactions 
  • Good communicator verbal and in writing (English) 
  • Being able to influence without hierarchical power 
  • Ability to establish and maintain a high level of trust and confidence in both the business and IT communities. 
  • Strong analytical and conceptual skills. 
  • Strong financial analysis skills and familiarity with financial reporting tools (Excel expertise is a must; SAP experience and Apptio experience are a plus) 
  • Accurate and disciplined working attitude 
  • Ability to work autonomously

Additional Information

Next to many career opportunities and an attractive salary, we offer a variety of secondary conditions of employment. 

This includes:

  • Year-end bonus; 
  • Rewarding pension-plan;
  • Additional free time (ADV);
  • Remuneration for travel expenses; 
  • Remuneration for health, life- and other insurances;
  • Fitness allowance;
  • Discount on company products;
  • Flexible, international work environment. 
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