Job Description

Explore the possibilities across our global house of brands.
Defined by inclusivity rather than exclusivity, Our client embraces the exploration of individuality and invests in helping you grow personally and professionally. Every individual in our global house has the opportunity to make an impact, learn and be part of our growing and unique story.
We have the freedom to express ourselves and run with our best ideas across Coach, Kate Spade New York, and Stuart Weitzman. We share a profound belief in both our individual and collective potential, and know that with hard work and dedication, anything is possible.

Primary Purpose:

• This role is to support the Accounts Payable/Accounting team of Tapestry Europe, which covers 15 countries and 3 brands.

The role will have the following main areas of focus/responsibility:

• Processing payments weekly in accordance with supplier’s payment terms across multiple countries
• Raising urgent payments
• Dealing with internal and external payment queries in a professional and efficient manner
• Playing a key role in the accurate reporting of Vendor Aged Items in multiple currencies
• Performing supplier statement reconciliations to ensure outstanding invoices are paid on time
• Ensuring data completeness across reporting systems
• Liaising with suppliers and colleagues from various departments
• Provide guidance to the business on using the PO system
• Ad hoc analysis
• The Assistant will join a high-performing team and will work cross-functionally to monitor controls and key processes and to ensure continuous improvement.
• The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in accounting to...
• Support the Tapestry Europe Accounts Payable team and be a team player
• Efficiently manage urgent requests in a fast paced environment
• Work to develop efficiencies and improvements in current processes

The accomplished individual will possess...

• 1-2 years working experience within retail finance
• Strong academic record and a minimum of 2:1 or equivalent in their undergraduate degree
• High level understanding of accounting principles and financial reporting methods
• Attention to detail and strong communication skills
• Self-motivated, flexible and performance-oriented; able to work independently under time pressure in a fast paced, dynamic environment.
• Experience with finance software (SAP preferable) and PO system
• Advanced Excel skills

An outstanding professional will have...

• European language skills
• SAP expert
• Ariba experience

Our Competencies for All Employees

• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
• Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
• Perseverance: Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish; seldom gives up before finishing, especially in the face of resistance or setbacks.
• Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.

Our Competencies for All People Managers

• Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.
• Managerial Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
   

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities