Colette König

Executing the role as a secondment from the Volvo office in Ghent during a business transformation project.

*Analysing the monthly result vs budget/forecast in close collaboration with the Business Controllers

*Supporting the accounting teams during the closing (monthly/quarterly/yearly)
*Budget/Forecast for a couple of dedicated cost centres as well as for all payroll related expenses (base salary/national insurance/pension)
*Business Partnering the People Experience and Technical Training team
*Approving manual payment requests
*First point of contact for various external stakeholders (auditors, VAT consultants, CIT advisors, HMRC) as well as internal colleagues during the transformation period
*Supporting on new business initiatives to ensure their compliance with the accounting guidelines

*Completing FCA surveys as well as other ad-hoc HMRC surveys
*Close collaboration with the accounting team in Sweden
*Close collaboration with the AP/AR teams in the Shared Service Centre in Spain and reviewing aged items in the books

The Senior Accountant role covered below tasks exclusively for the National Sales Company (NSC) in the United Kingdom:

*Monthly closing activities, in the main responsible for the more judgement based tasks (accruals/provisions), posting the payroll as well as preparing various monthly journal entries
*Monthly reporting to the parent company (Volvo Car Sweden) within the given deadlines
*Performing account reconciliations incl. Flux Analysis
*Reviewing and approving account reconciliations and manual journal vouchers that were prepared and posted by other members of the UK accounting team; resolving any variances/discrepancies
*Generating the annual statutory financial statement for Volvo Car UK
*Supporting and coordinating the external audit (hard-close as well as year-end audit), preparing working papers, reports and supporting documentation
*Yearly self-assessment activity to comply with internal controls requirements
*Supporting all areas within the NSC for all kind of accounting questions/query

*Very close collaboration with the local Financial Controller
*Close collaboration with the various teams of the Shared Service Centers (Spain/India)
*Raising intercompany invoices for provided services within the Volvo group

*Continuously striving for process improvements

***Maternity/parental leave from Dec 2018 until May 2019***

GL accountancy for Iveco Netherlands including
*Month-end closing and reporting
*Performing account reconciliation
*Booking of the payroll
*Preparing and submitting the VAT return
*Preparing the Intrastat and Intra-Community supplies and exports
*Assisting in introducing the new reconciliation software

*Treasury-management: ensuring and disposition of liquidity, being responsible for all payment transactions
*Creating a monthly financial status (overview of cash position) for Quarzwerke GmbH including all its subsidiaries
*Generating contracts for intercompany loans and current accounts, applying for guarantees of payment
*SAP-Key-User for Fixed-Asset accounting
*Responsible for Fixed-Asset accounting (tangible assets and properties) for Amberger Kaolinwerke Eduard Kick GmbH & Co. KG (a subsidiary of Quarzwerke GmbH)
*Assisting in drawing up the consolidated financial statements of the Quarzwerke-group
*Administration within the Finance/Controlling department: organisation of business trips, creating the travel expense notes, time registration
*Checking and validating travel expense claims

***Maternity/Parental leave from Dec 2015 until Jan 2017***

After following a 2 year apprenticeship program, where the apprentice gets to know the various departments of the company, I was able to start in the accounting department.

*Responsible for Fixed-Asset accounting (tangible assets and properties) for AKW as well as for its subsidiaries
*SAP-Key-User for Fixed-Asset accounting
*A-Z bookkeeping for an affiliated company including AP/AR, bank statements, petty cash, month- and year-end closing in cooperation with the auditors, VAT reporting
*Back-up for AP/AR and travel expenses accounting as well as the month-end closing of AKW
*Treasury-management: ensuring liquidity, disposition in close collaboration with the parent company, responsible for all payment transactions