Internship - Accountant with French (6 months)

With over 75 years of experience and the most extensive international network, Coface is a leader in trade credit insurance & risk management, and a recognized provider of Factoring, Debt Collection, Single Risk insurance, Bonding, and Information Services. Coface’s experts work to the beat of the global economy, helping ~100,000 clients in 100 countries build successful, growing, and dynamic businesses. With Coface’s insight and advice, these companies can make informed decisions. The Group' solutions strengthen their ability to sell by providing them with reliable information on their commercial partners and protecting them against non-payment risks, both domestically and for export. In 2023, Coface employed ~4,970 people and registered a turnover of €1.868 billion.

Coface Bucharest Shared Services Center - a constantly growing team of enthusiastic experts covers daily various processes and roles for Coface entities for all European regions. We do service multiple business lines from commercial to finance and technical with our more than 100 people speaking French, English, German, Italian, Spanish and Romanian. We are all proudly running external and internal client operations at the highest standards of quality and efficiency!

The Intern in Accounting will be able to perform one or more accounting activities in the areas of AP and GL, including but not restricted to :

• Perform payments and reconciliation
• Process invoices and follow up for inconsistencies
• Perform transitory accounts reconciliation and uploads
• Post bank statements and journals
• Perform reconciliations between sub- and main-ledger
• Create/modify fixed assets and run depreciation
• Business correspondence on accounting activities

Education:

• Student or graduate in Business or Accounting

Experience:

• First experience in an accounting department

Skills:

• Good knowledge of accounting  processes
• Good communication skills
• Good organizational skills
• Independent worker and team player
• Ability to deal with numerous deadlines simultaneously / Multi-tasking
• Familiarity and ease with varying IT and online software and applications.
• Knowledge of local GAAP is a plus
• Basic knowledge of major internal control procedures
• Experience with SAP S4/Hana is a plus
• Controlling/tax skills/knowledge is a plus

Languages :

• Fluent in French
• Fluent in English
• Italian – nice to have

What’s in it for you:

• Mentoring will help you blend with the team and get involved in your work as comfortably as possible;
• The company will provide continuous support and guidance throughout your work;
• Hybrid work model.