Company Description

Natixis is a French multinational financial services firm specialized in asset & wealth management, corporate & investment banking, insurance and payments. A subsidiary of Groupe BPCE, the second-largest banking group in France through its two retail banking networks, Banque Populaire and Caisse d?Epargne, Natixis counts nearly 16,000 employees across 38 countries.

As Natixis Innovation Hub, Natixis in Portugal mission is to transform traditional banking by developing innovative solutions for the bank?s business, operations and work culture, being a key driver of the company?s culture of agility and innovation. Teams of IT and Banking Support Activities work in an integrated, inclusive and transversal way, supporting all the business lines and country platforms.

Job Description

The AP Clerk team is involved in P2P process. In this process, the team is in charge of:

• The management of supplier invoices from receipt to preparation for payment (input, recovery?);
• Analysis and monitoring of payment deadlines (analysis of debtor supplier posts, payment delays, unauthorized invoices identification and resolution of blocking points, etc.) in order to ensure that invoices are paid on time;
• Performing checks on invoices;
• Applying invoices validation rules;
• Resolving invoice mismatches autonomously.

As a Junior Accountant, your main is to receive invoices, have them validated and prepare payment. In more detail you will:

• Recover direct invoices or credit notes and transfers to scanning center and completes information where necessary, after OCR prefilling;
• Consciously check correct transcription of invoice data and stored;
• Ensure that the invoice received complies with the defined process (must not be subject to purchase request);
• Identify the validator of the invoice;
• Send the document to validator for validation/process regularization if necessary;
• Receipt of the invoice and perform an invoice quality check, including the legal mentions of the invoice;
• Perform, manually if necessary, the matching with a regularization Purchase order;
• Prepare the payment: and enter the banking data.

In some cases, the Junior Accountant also:

• Rejects invoices to suppliers, where applicable;
• Requests credit note from supplier, where needed and performs validation of received credit notes;
• Contacts supplier for clarification:
• Reconciles and clears balance in case of discrepancies between goods receipt and invoice receipt;
• Handles transactional enquiries related to invoice and payment;
• Performs legal/VAT compliance check and tax calculations;
• Handles and resolves unapproved invoice cases, supported by Requester, Requester Hierarchy and the Buyer (above Buyer threshold);
• Creates input for urgent payment requests.

Qualifications

To succeed, you will need:

• Degree ideally in Finance or Economics;
• Around 1 year of experience in Accounts Payable and payment processes, standards and policies;
• Notions of Accounts Payable and payment processes;
• Fluency in English and French;
• To be attentive to details and delivery-oriented;
• Have very good analytical skills;
• To have a client-centric orientation.

Additional Information

Early morning. Campo 24 de Agosto. In 4 minutes, you are clocking in at the office. After grabbing a cup of coffee and fresh fruit, pick up your laptop and choose your spot for the day. It's going to be a busy one: French class before lunch and, just after, quick medical appointment at Natixis doctor's office.
Lunch break. Outside in the big terrace (look at your crops at the Urban Garden; ready to harvest!) or, if you feel like stretching your legs, walk downtown to grab lunch.
Back inside. Quick sprint review (working together anywhere means virtual happy birthday to that colleague in Paris that just turned 35). The afternoon went flying (tasks, reports, calls, some jokes with your teammates). End it on a high note: just one PlayStation game or the final match for that ping-pong tournament.
Tomorrow, you complete that certified technical training and the day after, you will work from home, taking advantage to finally do that online course on Udemy. Once you are done with your tasks for the day, you can visit the office for a board games session or show up at the rehearsal of one of Natixis bands. If that is too steady for you, meet your colleagues to surf some waves or join them in a football match.