Accountant assistant

Jowat AG with headquarters in Detmold, Germany is one of the leading suppliers of industrial adhesives. These are mainly used in woodworking and furniture manufacture, in the paper and packaging industry, for graphic arts, in the textile, automotive as well as in the electrical industry.
The company was founded in 1919 and has manufacturing sites in Germany in Detmold and Elsteraue, plus four other producing subsidiaries, Jowat Corporation in the USA, Jowat Swiss AG, Jowat Manufacturing in Malaysia, and the Jowat Universal Adhesives Australia Pty. Ltd. in Australia. The supplier of all adhesive groups is manufacturing over 73,000 tons of adhesives per year, with around 900 employees. A global sales structure with 18 Jowat sales organizations plus partner companies is guaranteeing local service with close customer contact.
Jowat Scandinavia AB is a trading company and serves the markets in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland with adhesives manufactured in Germany and Switzerland. Jowat Scandinavia AB is located in the Industrial Area of Malmö. Also the warehouse with the imported ready to sell goods is located nearby the office. Next to our three employees, our biggest asset is our stock. Our aim is to be a well-known company serving the Northern European Market with sales representatives and reliable partners in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.

Task within financial accounting of Jowat Scandinavia:
- Conciliation & closing the Balance and
P&L statement (HBI-II)
- Closing the balance sheet and P&L for consolidation upload to German parent company (HB I-II)
- Intercompany conciliation
- Assistance in the year end´s closing of accounts
- Support in management reports
- Support of business manager (customer service)
- Posting of bank statements
- Clearing out / Checking open items on accounts
receivable, accounts Payable, general ledger account
- Preparation of Cash-Flow-Analysis
- Checking sales invoices (open deliveries/non-posted in)
- Preparing / Closing taxation for the company
- Preparing / Closing the statement of wage-taxes,
social security
- Posting the payroll
- Preparing the Intrastat-statement
- Posting the expenses statements
- Preparing / Closing the VAT statement
- Preparing of online payment of vendor invoices and
other payments
- Posting of incoming invoices



Tasks within back office of Jowat Scandinavia:
- Back up for sales/back office
- Support of office manager (customer service)

Qualification:
- Accounting knowledge (required)
- English and/or German knowledge (required)
- SAP-FI knowledge (advantageous)
- SAP-ECCS knowledge (advantageous)
- MS OFFICE Excel knowledge