Internship - Accountant with Italian (6 months)

With over 75 years of experience and the most extensive international network, Coface is a leader in trade credit insurance & risk management, and a recognized provider of Factoring, Debt Collection, Single Risk insurance, Bonding, and Information Services. Coface’s experts work to the beat of the global economy, helping ~100,000 clients in 100 countries build successful, growing, and dynamic businesses. With Coface’s insight and advice, these companies can make informed decisions. The Group' solutions strengthen their ability to sell by providing them with reliable information on their commercial partners and protecting them against non-payment risks, both domestically and for export. In 2023, Coface employed ~4,970 people and registered a turnover of €1.868 billion.

Coface Bucharest Shared Services Center - a constantly growing team of enthusiastic experts covers daily various processes and roles for Coface entities for all European regions. We do service multiple business lines from commercial to finance and technical with our more than 100 people speaking French, English, German, Italian, Spanish and Romanian. We are all proudly running external and internal client operations at the highest standards of quality and efficiency!

The Intern in Accounting will be able to perform one or more accounting activities in the areas of AR, AP and GL, including but not restricted to :

‣       Perform AP/AR payments and reconciliation

‣       Perform transitory accounts reconciliation and uploads

‣       Post bank statements and journals

‣       Perform reconciliations between sub- and main-ledger

‣        Acts as SPOC for the designated accounting area in front of customer, team lead/manager, SSC Management and external parties

‣          Participates in the creation / update of Finance Standard Operating Procedures used by the SSC operational teams

‣          Is accountable for operations’ accuracy and quality regarding statutory and Group rules and standards

‣          Participate in project work (e.g. lean & optimization topics)

‣          Participate to functional & cross-functional meetings and shares feedback and regular contact with the functional finance team

ducation:

• Bachelor / Master's degree in Business or Accounting

Experience:

• First experience in an accounting department

Skills:

• Good knowledge of accounting  processes
• Good communication skills
• Good organizational skills
• Independent worker and team player
• Ability to deal with numerous deadlines simultaneously / Multi-tasking
• Familiarity and ease with varying IT and online software and applications.
• Knowledge of local GAAP is a plus
• Basic knowledge of major internal control procedures
• Experience with SAP S4/Hana is a plus
• Controlling/tax skills/knowledge is a plus

Languages :

• Fluent in Italian
• Fluent in English
• French – nice to have

What’s in it for you:

• Mentoring will help you blend with the team and get involved in your work as comfortably as possible;
• The company will provide continuous support and guidance throughout your work;
• Hybrid work model.