About the job

Service Operations Specialist is responsible for supporting the market Service Fulfilment team by working with IT solutions on the market, developing tools, invoicing and creating various analyses to secure a high-performing organisation in the market service fulfilment network including:

• Daily operations for services connected to internal and external service partners
• Operational excellence
• Efficiency and continuous improvement
• Short and mid-term capacities
• Cost development and contribution to the cost goal
• Lead-time development
• Sustainability

Contribute to the operations and development of the Service Fulfilment organisation with a customer-centric and collaborative approach in focus. Focus on delivering results with the sense of urgency, achieving and exceeding operational goals and higher efficiency on daily tasks. Provide a subject matter expertise and advice to business leaders within Service Fulfilment processes that will contribute to the development of business and people. Implement, assess standards, guidelines and policies within the own area of expertise and contribute to their development and update.

Your assignment

• Responsible for creating performance reports from IT solutions to enable a high performing daily operation and an efficient distribution network connected to service fulfilment including capacity utilization, delivery performance and shipment life cycle with a focus on quality and a customer-centric collaborative mind-set to enable competitiveness of IKEA in a multichannel environment and support long-term growth and profitability.
• Responsible to secure excellence in operations and quality under the scope of Service Fulfilment on the market through securing proper system setup for services, monitoring and reporting and clear connected communication with service partners to exceed customer expectations, provide seamless shopping experience and a great quality in meeting with the customer.
• Contribute to short-, and mid-term development of existing service partners through trainings in relevant IT solutions and for providing first line IT support towards service partners in daily business to secure that the service partners have the knowledge to perform their tasks to represent IKEA well and provide and excellent quality in the meeting with the customer.
• Responsible to define and maintain short and mid-term service and capacity parameters based on available forecasts.
• Responsible for securing accurate reporting of service costs through efficient and accurate reconciliation of invoicing of contract costs and connected analysis.
• Contribute to securing efficiency and implementing improvements on the market by supporting the development of operational processes and developing tools and ways of working in line with daily operational requirements in cooperation with relevant stakeholders to reach excellence in execution and exceed customer expectations.
• Identify, assess and in cooperation with the Ikea for Business Country Manager, select potential partners as needed for expansion of IB’s service offer.
• Throughout the process of fulfilment, always keep the customers updated on the position of delivery and ensure the quality of all information being passed on.
• Oversee the interface between IB and SSS, to ensure clarity and alignment of all parts of the supply chain.
• In coordination and cooperation with sales management, ensure that after-sales services related to fulfilment are done with precision and to the highest possible standard.
• Support Service Fulfilment developers in tender activities.

About the job

To be part of the finance organisation in IKEA Philippines supporting Service Office by that support the growth of IKEA businesses by ensuring accurate and timely work practices on:

• Processing and payment of invoices from local and foreign vendors and reimbursements to co-workers.
• Tax recording and remittances on local and foreign payments.

Your assignment

• Verify invoices and billings to ensure correctness and completeness of supporting documents (e.g. billing/sales invoice, receipt, purchase order) prior to payment processing.
• Prepare and ensure timely payments to local and foreign vendors including co-worker's claims.
• Liaise with vendors on payment related enquires.
• Liaise with banks for any issues related to payment.
• Prepare and ensure accurate and timely preparation and payment of monthly/quarterly tax returns and reconcile with the book.
• Reconcile payments and perform monthly bank reconciliations.
• Generate vendor aging report and follow up long outstanding invoices.
• Reconciliation of monthly GL accounts and vendor balances.
• Assist Assistant Finance Manager/Finance Manager in the preparation of monthly reports and audit schedules.
• Support and provide training to Store Accounting Assistant in handling Store payables functions.
• Other ad hoc task as assigned and support general accounting/accounts payable functions.