Graduation: Analyzing Chain Liability
Key Skills
Job Description
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About us
From the headquarters in Gorinchem, we offer administration assistance on all different areas of expertise. This includes finance; The Accounts Payable department within Damen Global Support is responsible for the efficient and compliant processing of incoming supplier invoices across multiple entities within the Damen Shipyards Group. The team focuses on process optimization, automation, and ensuring compliance with financial regulations and internal policies. Continuous improvement and digitalization are key priorities within the department.
The role
As an intern, you will work on a graduation assignment focused on the automation of the Chain Liability (WKA) process within Accounts Payable, including the improvement of supplier documentation management. You will have a focus on compliance aspects as well, as this is also part of the scope within Accounts Payable. The objective of this assignment is to design an automated end-to-end process that improves efficiency, reduces manual work, and ensures compliance with legal and audit requirements.
At the end of the assignment, you will deliver a clear process design and implementation plan that can be used by the organization to improve the current way of working.
Key accountabilities
As an intern, you will:
- Analyze the current WKA process within Accounts Payable;
- Identify bottlenecks, risks, and inefficiencies in both processing and documentation flow;
- Conduct interviews with the team, Procurement colleagues and possible suppliers;
- Investigating automation opportunities within SAP and Process Director;
- Design automated triggers for requesting missing documentation;
- Develop a structured approach for compliance monitoring and audit-proof documentation;
- Deliver an end product that will improve the WKA process, and possibly implement the first steps.
Skills & experience
At least several skills/experiences from the following list are required to be considered:
- Currently enrolled in a Bachelor or Master program within Finance, Business Administration, Supply Chain or related field
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Interest in process optimization, automation, and finance operations
- Basic understanding of financial processes and financial law is a plus
- Affinity with systems such as SAP or workflow tools is a plus
- Fluent in both English and Dutch
- Fulltime availability, on site in Gorinchem
What we offer
- Mentoring at academic level will be available throughout the internship
- An internship/ graduation fee and travel allowance will be paid for the duration of the assignment
- A dynamic and international working environment within Damen
- The opportunity to contribute to a real-life process improvement project
- Insight into Finance, Procurement, and digital transformation processes
- Possibility to build a professional network within Damen
Other
This assignment is available to start as soon as possible, depending on your availability. Are you ready to sail into your new adventure at Damen? Don’t hesitate, send us your motivation letter and resume here.
Due to housing issues we cannot accept international students that do not have accommodation in the Netherlands yet.
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Core Responsibilities
The intern will analyze and automate the Chain Liability (WKA) process within the Accounts Payable department to improve efficiency and compliance. This involves identifying process bottlenecks, conducting stakeholder interviews, and designing an automated end-to-end documentation management system.
Requirements
Candidates must be currently enrolled in a Bachelor or Master program in Finance, Business Administration, Supply Chain, or a related field. Proficiency in both English and Dutch is required, along with full-time availability to work on-site in Gorinchem.
Benefits
- Internship fee
- Travel allowance
- Mentoring at academic level
About Damen
Industry: Shipbuilding
Company size: 10,001+ employees
Oceans, seas, lakes and rivers offer growing possibilities in the areas of trade, food, energy and recreation. To ensure global prosperity for next generations and keep the earth habitable with an ever-increasing population, it is essential to utilise and protect these possibilities as efficiently and responsibly as possible. Damen provides unprecedented maritime solutions for this, through design, shipbuilding, ship repair and related services. We offer versatile platforms that enable our customers to be successful and that raise the standard in terms of safety, reliability, efficiency and sustainability. We want to become the most sustainable shipbuilders in the world. In the previous century, we revolutionized shipbuilding. Thanks to standardisation, we were able to supply our customers with better ships, faster. More than 90 years and 6,500 ships later, the importance of standardisation is only increasing in the light of zero-emissions and digitalisation. We do not build our ships alone, but together with an extensive network from the international maritime cluster. We firmly believe in the power of sharing. It means that we also use our craftsmanship to build platforms on production facilities that are not ours. In this way, through knowledge transfer, we not only contribute to better, safer and more eco-friendly ships, but also to sustainable local development and prosperity. We are a family owned business and stand for fellowship, craftsmanship, entrepreneurship and stewardship. Our playing field is the world. Our horizon is the long term. We firmly believe in our team, but also in the strength of the individual. Each colleague is an entrepreneur, focused on ensuring truly satisfied clients and making our contribution to a better world. In every aspect of our business the next generation is our starting point.