Who We Are: Brown Brothers Harriman is a privately-held financial institution that has been a thought leader and solutions provider for almost 200 years. While 'standard banks' offer retail services to millions of individuals, such as savings accounts and mortgages; BBH serves the most sophisticated individuals and institutions with expertise in Private Banking, Investment Management, and Investor Services. Our cross functional, global teams provide our clients with leading insight and expertise throughout our 17 locations around the world. Since 2012, our Krakow location has been a growing business center with a global reach, delivering excellence in operations, client service and technology.
Why BBH? Over the years, we have been fortunate to forge relationships with companies, institutions, families and individuals who appreciate our integrity, perspective, sense of partnership and long-term perspective. The loyalty we earn from our clients comes from two things: the quality of our people and the culture of our firm. We attract and invest in the best people in the industry, rewarding teamwork, innovation and above all, client satisfaction. As a BBH professional, your career path is yours to define. We hire bright, self-starters, educate them on our client‘s needs, provide the framework and tools to succeed—then give them the freedom to excel. We take pride in our ability to retain our best employees by giving them constant opportunities to learn new skills, work across different disciplines and move into new challenges. Most importantly, we encourage you to be yourself and have fun.
The Cost Accountant Specialist is responsible for the processing of System’s invoices for purchases of hardware, software, telecommunication, and professional services. This position processes and monitors the receipt, performs reconciliation and initiates the approval of BBH invoices across Europe/Asia and/or the States. Works with internal BBH managers and external vendors to address inquires and reconciliation issues which are escalated to Sr Cost Accountant analyst where needed.
Responsibilities:
- Processing Invoices from reciept, reconciliation and to intiating approval processes
- Receive invoice into ASPIN via email or UCM(document management system)
- Inbound processing of vendor, bbh entity information and allocation for charge back
- Reconcile BBH PO and Non-PO invoices to appropriate BBH requests and supporting documentation
- Occasionally, preparing invoices for Contracts review/approval
- Monitoring and reconcile internal accounting systems (ASPIN) for payment
- Work with System Cost Accounting Analyst, Tech Contract, Approving managers
- Notify Vendor of reconciliation deiscrepencies
- Work with System approving managers during approval process
- Responding to vendor and internal CA/Manager inquiries via phone or e-mail
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Generate management reports for processing statistics
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Accounting or Finance, and/or equivalent work experience
- 0-2 years Accounting or Finance exposure experience in Systems environment
- Ability to use standard desktop tools effectively, including Microsoft Office
- Expertise in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access
- Understanding of financial planning process (invoice payments, accruals, forecasting, charge back
- Knowledge of System infrastructure(Software, Hardware, Maintenance, Telecom,Professional Services)
- Strong negotiational, Verbal, written communications skills
- Ability to think analytically and problem solve
- Fluency in English and an understanding of German, French, Polish to support European invoices.
- Work Independantly and resourceful for support
- Meticulous attention to detail
