Accounting Trainee

Build a career powered by innovations that matter! At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible. We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Looking for a great place to work? You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment. Come explore Novanta.

Company Overview

Build a career powered by innovations that matter. At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible. We serve as a trusted technology partner to medical and advanced industrial original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide, engineering components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is a global organization with offices located throughout EMEA, The Americas and Asia Pacific. Novanta is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ under the symbol NOVT.

Business Unit Overview

This position is part of Novanta’s Corporate and Shared Services global teams. Novanta’s Corporate and Shared Services teams play an important role in executing the company’s strategic mission and operations. Included in Corporate and Shared Services are the business functions including Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal, Compliance, Corporate Development and Corporate Marketing. The Corporate and Shared Services teams work closely with all Novanta business units to support operating initiatives contributing to the organization’s financial success.

Position Details:

• Duration: 1 year
• The role offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience across various accounting functions, including Accounts Payable and Employee Expenses.
• The trainee will rotate through these departments, gaining a comprehensive understanding of our financial operations.

  Accounts Payable incoming invoices

  Employee expenses

  Accounts Payable payments

Responsibilities:

• Accounts Payable – Incoming invoices:

Process vendor invoices and ensure timely payments.

Reconcile supplier statements and resolve discrepancies.

Assist in month-end closing activities.

• Employee Expenses:

Review and process employee expense reports in Concur

Ensure compliance with company policies and procedures.

Assist in the preparation of expense analysis reports.

• Accounts payable - Payments

Prepare manual and regular payments in the bank.

Propose changes to master data to payments specialist in case of any

deviations in the payment file.

Allocate payments according to the statement from the bank.

Review and assess bank templates correctness.

The plan of the rotation will be set-up at the beginning of the program and the sequence of the Departments can be changed based on the priority of the organization.

For each part of the responsibilities will be set up separate plan and will be evaluated separately at the end of the assignment.

Required Experience, Education, Skills, Training and Competencies

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and interpret data from various sources and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and organizational abilities.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other accounting software.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage time effectively and Self-learning capabilities.
• Ability to find solutions, not only causes

Travel Requirements

• NONE
   

Physical Requirements

NONE

Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.

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