Accounting Assistant

Location: Paço de Arcos, Portugal

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Thales Portugal is a Competence Centre of the Thales Group, whose mission is to integrate and develop solutions and products for Thales projects worldwide. Having around 220 specialized human resources Thales Portugal has a strong capability to design, develop, and deploy systems and services efficiently in the Defence, Security (Critical Information Systems, Critical Infrastructure and Banking) and Transportation markets.

Primary Purpose of the Role:

This position will focus on processing daily payments and accounting for these payments as per process rules and deadlines, meeting monthly close activities on critical deadlines.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Electronic payment processing via BACs of third party and/or Intercompany invoices within strict deadlines in multi-operator Thales companies
• Instigate / resolve invoice queries
• Maintain prepayments and debit balances at an acceptable level
• Process Staff Expenses claims and carry out compliance checks
• Monthly closing reports and routines with strict deadlines
• Ad-hoc Payables related tasks - as and when required

Skills

Essential

• Good communication skills both verbal and written
• Good team player – flexible and adaptable to multi-tasks.
• Excellent customer service skills.   
• Ability to work on own initiative   
• Adaptable and flexible
• A good sense of relationship and strong interpersonal qualities  (to be able to manage the relationship with different cultures within units)
• Able to work in a multicultural work environment
• Fluent in Portuguese and English

Experience:

Essential

• Proficient use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook

Desirable

• Experience of working for a large and complex organisation - Shared Service Centre environment
• Good knowledge of P2P processes acquired in an international company

Values & Behaviours:

• Focus on Customers
• Perform through teaming
• Innovate
• Self-development profile

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here, apply now!