Finance Assistant (Temporary Contract)

Are you ready to join a dynamic and agile environment where your skills will help drive our business forward? As a Finance Assistant at AstraZeneca, you will play a crucial role in supporting our financial operations, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in our processes. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team that is integral to our mission of improving patients' lives through innovative science.

Accountabilities

• Monitoring and controlling monthly purchase orders created, ensuring purchasing closings in appropriate manner of time.
• Preparation of a spreadsheet with annual purchase orders related to fixed costs
• Controlling and check-ins for purchase orders created through the system, ensuring timely posting of invoices against the correct purchase order
• Creation, review, and reconcile of civil contracts with stakeholders and accompanying documentation in accordance with due contractual payment in addition with communicating with the authorship agency
• Regular updates on all paid contracts and send details for posting invoices sent by the authorship agency
• Verification of correctness of monthly travel orders and expenses submitted through the systems
• Support creation of purchase orders for Finance and Facility departments
• Review and verification of accounting posting and payments of invoices, populate IFRS16 tracker with purchasing
• Support of NRA and external audit queries under Finance Manager supervision
• Communication with the Travel Help Desk, reporting on expenses due for payment after verification
• Responsibility for the spreadsheet for EFPIA reporting for all indirect payments made through third parties
• Preparation of the documentation for quarterly LCC reports
• Lead vendor outstanding balance review, Coupa and Veeva reports for all commercial meetings
• Review and support correct accounting treatment and timely payment of vendor invoices

Essential Skills/Experience

• -University degree in Finance Administration, Accounting Economics will be preferred
• Experience with administrative work of 2-3 years ideally
• Excellent written and spoken English skills
• Great computer skills and Excel knowledge
• Numerical and analytical skills
• Planning and organization skills
• Professional communication skills
• Ability to work in a team
• Proactivity, flexibility, and ability to solve problem situations
• Learning agility
• Self-driven and sense of responsibility

At AstraZeneca, you'll join a talented global team that is dedicated to making a significant impact on patients' lives. We leverage cutting-edge technology and digital innovations to drive our evolution and improve our operations. Our dynamic environment fosters creativity, smart risk-taking, and collaboration among high-performing individuals. With countless opportunities for growth and development, you'll build an unrivalled reputation while contributing to meaningful work that benefits people worldwide.

Ready to make a difference? Apply now to join our team!

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.