Financial Accountant/human Resources

Here at **Barton International Gmbh,** we pride ourselves on being a family-owned and operated business for more than 140 years. Here customers are backed by BARTON'S unsurpassed commitment to consistent quality grading, technical knowledge and impeccable customer service. Our focus is to create a company culture that is characterized by collaboration and teamwork. All these things allow us to serve our customers with products and services that are of the highest quality.

**Barton International GmbH** is looking to hire a **Financial Accountant/Human Resources** to support our US and internal teams from our office in **Usingen.**

As a **Financial Accountant/Human Resources** you will work with the local management in Usignen and the Finance and Human Resources team in the US. **Responsibilities**:

- Post sales orders as invoices on customer accounts and distribute invoices to the customers.
- Post customer payments in ERP system on customer account with settlement to specific customer invoices.
- Post vendor invoices in ERP system on vendor account.
- Communicate customer and vendor invoices and supporting documents to tax accounting firm system.
- Select vendor invoices to be paid in ERP system, setup vendor payment journal, initiate payments on bank website or mobile APP. Submit payment proposal to approver.
- Assist sales staff in reviewing customer credit and setting up customer accounts specifically credit limit and payment terms.
- Review customer sales orders that are sent to credit hold. Take required action to contact customer or sales staff to determine processing steps.
- Perform collection tasks related to customer invoices that are past due.
- Responsible for VAT accounting records in ERP system and tax account firm. DATEV system.
- Perform audit of internal systems to ensure all required document support for company transactions have been submitted and received.
- Act as a liason between company and tax accounting firm for all VAT matters. Assist tax accounting firm with all VAT audits.
- Responsible for inventory receipts against purchases orders in ERP system. Liaison for company with US Parent for inventory purchases and transactions.
- Responsible for treasury management tasks which includes bank account administration, bank account transaction review, and initiation.
- Prepare cash flow forecasts, as needed.
- Responsible for intercompany transactions between company and US Parent.
- Liaison between US Parent Human Resources and tax accounting firm for the payroll compensation, payroll taxes, and employee insurance transactions.
- Review information provided by tax accounting firm and confirm accuracy for each employee. Initiate payments for payroll compensation, payroll taxes, and employee insurances and notify approver.
- Post payroll related journal and bank transactions in ERP system.
- Complete financial close for Barton International GmbH by performing month-end close work for accounts receivable, accounts payable, inventory, VAT, and general ledger.
- Responsible for completing year-end financial close and reporting to US Parent and tax accounting firm. Work with tax accounting firm to validate German tax financial report submission.

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor's degree.
- 5+ years of relevant work experience finance.
- Successful track record of multi-tasking and being a team player on cross-functional teams.
- Strong attention to detail and quality of work.
- Fluent in spoken and written English.
- Experience with Microsoft productivity software, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and others.
- Experience working with corporate file sharing technologies including SharePoint, OneDrive and similar services.
- Experience with Microsoft Windows and/or Apple Macintosh computers,
- Experience with Microsoft Dynamics for Finance and Operations, preferred.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.