ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLES SPECIALIST

Air Liquide Europe Business Services (ALEBS) was created in 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal with the mandate to provide financial services for Air Liquide European entities. In the space of 4 years, it has expanded to over 400 employees based in 3 office locations: Lisbon, Tomar and Guarda. The geographical scope was extended to include, besides the European affiliates also entities located in Africa, Middle-East and India, and the operational scope was extended and includes today not just Finance, but also Human Resources. How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW? Investigate customer payments and monitor all activities related to accounts receivable. Follow up unapplied and unallocated payments in order to accurately record financial transactions that generate revenue for the organization. Process manual bank receivables into ERP on daily basis Manage incoming (verify and validate invoices) and outgoing payments in ERP on customer subledgers Request and follow up payment remittances to customers thought different communication channels Investigate, report and solve unapplied and unidentified receivables on daily basis Create customer refund proposals on weekly basis Process cheques and direct debits, ribas and petty cash Process reconciliation of the AR sub-ledger to the General Ledger. Perform and monitor customer clearings: Apply accounts receivables adjustments for small amounts or rates differences Follow up overpayments and underpayments to enable accurate postings Compensate customer/vendor accounts and payments plans Ensure that all retrieved and collected data to support internal and external audit requests is accurated and reply to audit requests Work close with data entry team to create new customers Process, control and deliver month end activities on Accounts Receivables (e.g.Aging, Overdues, Unapplied, Unallocated, etc.) Perform customer account management based on legal requests Reverse postings when needed and mitigate the risk of error Create reports (e.g. bad debt, ageing, open items, etc) for management review Are you a MATCH? Degree in Accounting / Financial / Management / Economy (Nice to have) More than 4 years in similar function Experience in Business Services Center is a plus Experience in a multinational company is desirable Intermediate in English (written and spoken) Extra languages are valued (e.g. Arabic; Spanish; French; Italian; German; Swedish) Our Differences make our Performance At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.