Project Accounting Senior Professional with German Language Proficiency

Function

Finance - Shared Services

Our Company

We're Hitachi Digital, a company at the forefront of digital transformation and the fastest growing division of Hitachi Group. We're crucial to the company's strategy and ambition to become a premier global player in the massive and fast-moving digital transformation market.

Our group companies, including GlobalLogic, Hitachi Digital Services, Hitachi Vantara and more, offer comprehensive services that span the entire digital lifecycle, from initial idea to full-scale operation and the infrastructure to run it on. Hitachi Digital represents One Hitachi, integrating domain knowledge and digital capabilities, and harnessing the power of the entire portfolio of services, technologies, and partnerships, to accelerate synergy creation and make real-world impact for our customers and society as a whole.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to unleash a digital future. We don't expect you to 'fit' every requirement - your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

Job description

This position is responsible for the daily management of project setup for customer account activity, ensuring accurate, timely billing, and handling invoicing disputes. Other responsibilities include revenue operations activities such as helping ensure revenue close process efficiency and effectiveness, ensuring the accuracy of revenue reporting (from both management and external reporting perspectives), analyzing key trends/judgment areas, booking journal entries for revenue deferral, and performing reconciliations and deferred revenue analysis.

• Understand and own the processes of the Company's revenue cycle to ensure proper revenue recognition compliance with USGAAP and internal policies
• Review new contracts and purchase orders for non-standard terms and conditions and compliance, and ensure that all revenue for the period is recorded and recognized according to IFRS and USGAAP standards and the Company's revenue policy
• Work closely with management daily to review detailed, sometimes complex, client contracts to ensure proper project set-up, billing, and revenue recognition, and maintain the accuracy and integrity of customer data files
• Record monthly revenue recognition and ensure compliance with USGAAP and the Company's internal policies
• Process customer invoices and ensure correct billable resources, hours, and rates are generated timely and accurately for Time and Materials, Fixed Price, and Cost+ professional service engagements
• Develop and maintain working relationships with the Delivery, Sales, and Finance teams, handle customer queries/issues, and coordinate timely resolution
• Manage day-to-day revenue accounting functions, including month-end close, reconciliation of revenue-related accounts, preparation of revenue deferrals, monthly analysis, and internal and external audit schedules
• Ensure the integrity of key processes by understanding systems, flow of transactions, internal controls, and recommending efficiency and effectiveness improvements
• Partner with the ERP team, PSA team, and other departments to streamline and automate accounting processes and transactional cycles concerning Revenue Recognition, Invoicing, and Customer Management

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Fluent German
• 3+ years of experience in Finance/Accounting
• Intermediate Excel skills
• Strong verbal and written English and German communication skills
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Promotes collaboration, works well with others, and maintains a positive attitude
• Strong organizational skills, including attention to detail and problem-solving

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Economics, Finance, Business Management or related field
• Experience with billing labor hours is a plus, and working with cross-functional teams
• Experience with Oracle ERP, Salesforce PSA

This position will report to the Manager, Finance, and is responsible for generating complex customer invoices in a labor-based environment and performing all activities in the revenue accounting function.

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About us

We're a global, 1000-stong, diverse team of professional experts, promoting and delivering Social Innovation through our One Hitachi initiative (OT x IT x Product) and working on projects that have a real-world impact. We're curious, passionate and empowered, blending our legacy of 110 years of innovation with our shaping our future. Here you're not just another employee; you're part of a tradition of excellence and a community working towards creating a digital future.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.