Accounting Specialist

About Mars, Incorporated

Mars is a family-owned business with more than a century of history making diverse products and offering services for people and the pets people love.

With almost $45 billion in sales, the company is a global business that produces some of the world's best-loved brands: M&M's, SNICKERS, TWIX, MILKY WAY, DOVE, PEDIGREE, ROYAL CANIN, WHISKAS, EXTRA, ORBIT, 5, SKITTLES, BEN'S ORIGINAL and MARS DRINKS and COCOAVIA.

Mars also provides veterinary health services that include BANFIELD Pet Hospitals, Blue Pearl, VCA and Pet Partners. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries.

The Mars Five Principles - Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom - inspire its more than 100,000 Associates to create value for all its partners and deliver growth they are proud of every day.

ACCOUNTING SPECIALIST:

Job description:

Main Responsabilities:

Trade AGREEMENTS

Follow the entire validation process (collection of validations, 4net verification, verification of trade allowances in % and payment methods, request to Sales for modifications to the agreement, sending the final contract to the Sales Capability Team to be signed, archiving a copy of the signed agreements)

Insertion / modification Trade Management system (XTEL V8) of trade off allowances (excluding cash off) & prepare a file with NFT, calculate the amount due to the customers based on fold in deriving from calculation of agreed off-invoice discounts given on temporary basis with the customers (preparation of files with amounts to be sent to Customer Service for settlement)

RECONCILIATION OF PROMOTIONAL INVOICES
Reconcile promotional invoices from all sales channels, following the priorities and timing defined in the process.

Liaising with internal Sales teams and customers for Credit notes issuance in accordance with the outcome of the reconciliation process.

DEDUCTION

Coordinate all work with the team colleagues to align with MGS (Mars shared service center) on the true picture of Deduction reporting in terms of drivers and accountability.

Ensure process is streamlined and there is a visible progress in reducing Deduction amounts

AP invoices:

Support the team with invoices posting in AP (Fixed costs, Advertising & consumer promo) according to needs and internal workload

Creation of Customer Sales vendors in MDG

Creation of Finance POs in Ariba

Coordinate all the Deduction work with the team colleagues to give MGS the guidelines so that they can identify what Trade really is and make changes to their report in order to make it clearer and more streamlined.

The objective is to reset the amounts in the
DEDUCTION file that we periodically receive from colleagues, prevent new ones from being created and, if there are, resolve them immediately.

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