Working Student - Commercial Administrator in Berlin bei Vattenfall

Energy is our contribution to quality of life – day after day. With around 20,000 colleagues Vattenfall provides comprehensive electricity and heating offerings to several million customers in northern Europe. For the work ahead we need people who are fully dedicated to our customers and to a sustainable society – people like you.

BA Wind is responsible for the development, construction and operation of wind power onshore and offshore as well as other non-hydro renewable activities like solar and batteries. We manage the maintenance, operation and continuous improvement of wind generation assets, safely and with the highest levels of availability and profitability. We also perform the structuring and execution of project partnerships in accordance with overall wind strategy.

In BA Controlling we are the financial matter experts ensuring performance management, sound decision making and translating business performance of BA Wind by providing transparency of the portfolio, using our finance and system knowledge as well as our internal network influencing realization of BA Wind´s targets and strategy.

Vattenfall is now looking for the right person to fill the position as Working Student - Commercial Administrator in Business Area (BA) Wind.

for our office in Hamburg or Berlin.

Purpose of your potential role as Working Student - Commercial Administrator

To be successful you need to leverage your structured and financial thinking and combine it with a hands-on attitude in our fast-paced environment. As such you will play an important bridge function to ensure smooth end-to-end finance processes, especially the procure-to-pay process. You will ensure that high quality procure-to-pay process is provided as base for procurement. This needs to be done in close cooperation with Vattenfall Group functions, Shared Service Center and the business. You are working in an international team consisting of Commercial Administrators and procure-to-pay Governance.

Key tasks and responsibilities include

• First line support with regards to purchase order requisitions and invoice handling
• Code and distribute invoices
• Act as interface between Business Area Wind business and Finance Business Services departments (Accounts Payable/ Subledger, Accounting, Procurement, Tax)
• Support with manual payments
• Support key user community & support in organizing local user trainings
• Support enhancing and continuous improvement of procure-to-pay and invoicing process
• Follow up on invoices and procure-to-pay process adherence
• Ad hoc support to the Commercial Admin & Procure-to-Pay Governance team

What we are looking for

• You study Business administration, economics or similar
• Your coordination and administrative skills are very good
• Your command of English is strong, both verbally and written. Command of German is a plus
• You are structured and you possess a cooperative & proactive mind set
• You like to pay attention to details without losing the bigger picture
• You have good excel skills and preferably first-hand experience with SAP

Our Offer

We offer good remuneration, a challenging and international work environment and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues as ‘Ask and Share’ concept is essential for the way we work. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development.

• Start of contract: beginning of April
• Working hours: 15-20 hours a week; up to 40 hours a week during semester break
• Minimum term: 1 year
• Flexible working hours and hybrid work model (Office + Home Office)
• Work equipment: a laptop will be provided to you

We welcome your application in English, including a short cover letter, CV, current grade reports and your certificate of enrollment via the application button at this page, no later than 08.03.2024. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website.

For more information about the position you are welcome to contact Director of BA Controlling Stefan Melde, +49 1525 4628 034.

For more information about the recruiting process please reach out to our recruiter Sabrina Parsons via sabrina.parsons@vattenfall.de.

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