Accounting Trainee

Company Description

As the preferred partner for window and door automation, Somfy is committed to inspiring new and better ways of living for all. Better ways of producing, consuming, and housing that we must imagine together around the world in order to inhabit our planet in a more virtuous and permanent way. Acting for better ways of living means fostering the alliance of a sustainable economic model with environmental protection and self-fulfillment for everyone.

As a French, family-owned, and independent group, in continuous growth since our creation, we have been world leaders for 50 years and pioneers in home automation. innovation continuously guides our work and guarantees the excellence of our solutions.

We are present in 59 countries, with eight production sites and 17 R&D centers. We are pursuing an ambitious industrial strategy based on “Smart Living” and the value we bring to our customers.

We are committed to reducing our environmental footprint every day. Today, more than 60% of our products are eco-designed, and all will be by 2030. At the same time, we have implemented a responsible purchasing policy that prioritizes local suppliers.

We are deeply committed to the well-being of our 6,880 employees, we promote their sustainable employability by promoting internal mobility and developing their skills. We foster diversity and inclusion by building on our strong corporate culture.

**Job Description**:
In order to deploy **our new SAP systems** in all our Business Areas and / or subsidiaries, the SAP Project Team is looking for an **Accounting **specialist to join our Roll out teams.

What is So One Program? It is **Somfy Group’s transformation program** aiming at deploying one model for operational excellence, implementing harmonized business processes based on a new IT platform (with SAP solutions).

What is a Roll-out Team? **It is a team of business specialists deploying the Group’s new processes and new ERP in all entities, making the link between local teams and So One core project team**. Roll-outs started in 2021. 4 roll-out teams are supporting the ambitious and dense roll-out plan.

**Inside your area of expertise, the missions are**:

- ** Fit analysis and local design: (50% on site)**
- On his functional scope (Accounting), contribute to the fit analysis by explaining the core model to the local teams, with the support of the Roll-out Team Member “Record-to-Report”
- Collect, challenge and qualify potential gaps between the requirements and the core model
- Collect and qualify the change impacts of not doing the gaps to feed the arbitration process
- ** Build and integration test (realization): (15% on site)**
- Supports local Key Users (BA, BU) to provide necessary business inputs to set up the solution
- Contribute to the integration testing with the support of the central staff
- Train Local KU (Business process and tools)
- Supports local Key Users to perform Data Migration
- ** UAT and go-live preparation: (30% on site)**
- Supports local Key Users (BA, BU) and the central staff to adapt the core testing kit to prepare the User Acceptance tests
- Support Local Key Users (BA, BU) within the UAT with the support of the central staff
- Contribute to the preparation of the data migration
- Contribute to the cutover plan execution
- Support local Key Users to perform Process and Tools training execution
- ** Hypercare (support): (75% on site)**
- Support Local teams the first weeks after the go-live
- Contribute to the incidents management, to Core Central Staff

**Qualifications**:

- ** Experience within Accounting field**:

- Communication skills
- Internationally Mobile
- Fluent in English

Additional Information
**Contract **:internship (6 months)
**Location** : Cluses
Business trips to the USA, Poland or the Netherlands