Trilingual Officer for Office Management, Accounting and Administration (m/f/d), Merzhausen

Avant-garde Materials Simulation is the world-leading provider of software for organic Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP). We have successfully competed in the last three CSP blind tests and are pioneering other areas of predictive materials modelling. We rapidly deploy new technology to some of the leading pharmaceutical companies. We put the principles of sustainable development into practice and offer a multicultural working environment with an academic touch. Our team is constantly growing and more support is required.

Your Mission

The position is full time, permanent, and trilingual: English, German and French. You will report M.A Elsa Gheziel-Neumann, CEO, Head of Human Resources, Administration, Communication and Office Management at Avant-garde Materials Simulation.

Your main mission is to assist the E. Gheziel-Neumann, in all administrative tasks related to the office management, the accounting and the human resources, in close contact with our secretary. You thus play a key role in enabling the second CEO to focus on Business Development Strategy, Recruitment, Human Resources Strategy and Communication Strategy and Implementation.

After one year you should be able to take over the Invoicing + administration daily operations, as well as the Office Management. As a manager, you would still collaborate with the second CEO on Communication and Human Resources projects, as well as report on invoicing follow up in order to have a global overview on finances planning.

Mission´s details

Project and HR administration, internal communication

• Subsidized projects: follow up on delivering reports, time-sheets and other documents with external partners ( Academics, providers, government agencies) both in German and English language;
• Leaves (paid, sick…) management via Odoo: discuss with people, get an overview and help decision of HR head;
• Formalize policies of the company in written documents (English), both on our internal Wiki and hand-over documents (Libre Office with a dedicated Corporate ID)dispatch information to Team
• Help HR to organise some short sessions/discussions to make these rules are alive and evolve; create reminders to make sure the rules are understood

Office management: maintain quality of the working atmosphere

• Re-organise archiving of documents
• Re-organise access and inventory of small material
• Be the link with IT to make sure some basical problems (printers, scanners, any hardware dysfunction) are solved on the mid-term
• Have an overview to review what is good, what can be improved • do we need some rules, for this or that? How can we introduce a rule? • How to maintain a space where you can both relax and work? • organise craftsmen whenever necessary
• Organise office life during holiday or absence of management: • Key and safe access • Access to offices for external provider • Dependencies and Agenda check

Invoicing and Business Development Follow up

• Follow up on Business Development: from quote to PO, to invoicing;
• Write invoices for customers in our ERP (Odoo), post them on customers platforms, do the payment follow up, follow up with our accountant.
• Relationship with our accountant: clarify invoicing positions, help preparing the yearly statement, clarify credit notes for licence fees
• Verification and research of accounting pieces: documents related to the accounting have been uploaded on the DATEV´s platform. On request of management and our accountant you might have to look for certain information/documents to clarify some positions (visa cards, travels, furniture, hard ware…)

Event organisation

• Support HR to organise Team event: clarify concept and deadlines, organise services and internal communication/Agenda, analyse dependencies and remind management of deadlines;
• Support HR to organise recruitment: organise services, collect applications and test results, organise test based on templates, organise appointments and Agenda for interviews;
• Support HR to organise workshops

Hard skills

• You are familiar with Microsoft Office, especially Excel and word
• You have good organisation skills in small teams
• You have a strong administrative background in German context
• You are fluent in written and spoken English and German

Soft skills

• You can execute complex sub-projects independently, but report regularly to the HR
• You like to finish what you have started and feel responsible for your mission
• You are committed to reduce the carb on footprint at work and care about Ethics in Business
• You have a collaborative mindset and are not afraid to ask, but are able to respect your colleague´s working time;
• Can-do attitude: if something is new you see it as a challenge, not as an obstacle
• You readily accept guidance by senior colleagues
• You are solution-oriented and pragmatic
• Intercultural awareness: our customers and teams come from all over the world. Thus it is important to be able to adapt to different mentalities and cultural contexts.