Accountant & Credit Management Officer

• Manage and process payments by receiving, verifying, and reconciling invoices
• Analyze and charge expenses to appropriate accounts and cost centers
• Prepare and schedule vendor payments, monitor discount opportunities, and resolve discrepancies
• Generally responding to all vendor inquiries regarding accounting
• Maintain accurate accounting ledgers and perform month-end closing tasks
• Reports sales taxes by calculating applicable amounts on paid invoices
• Continuing to improve the payment process (in particular SAP cockpit)
• Performing month-end closing tasks
• Ensure timely posting of incoming customer payments and apply them to outstanding invoices
• Produce monthly customer account statements and manage customer account reconciliations
• Update approved customer credit lines
• Maintain customer accounts in SAP by updating approved credit lines & payment terms
• Follow and limit credit risk by releasing customer orders based on an assessment of overdue invoices and their maturity as well as the credit
• Making sure that administrative bank guarantees such as letter of credits are always in place by on-time renewal
• Keep track of incoming payments of customers, post them timely to their accounts and apply them to outstanding invoices based on customer
• Apply credit notes to customer invoices
• Maintain concise customer accounts by clearing invoices with payments and inserting appropriate references
• Produce and provide customer account statements on a monthly basis as well as on request
• Obtain customer financial statements for the Head of Finance to assess customer solvency and ATR Americas’ credit risk and whether or not a credit line can be established
• Ensure on time payments from customers by communication through e-mail or video calls
• Follow up with customers on overdue invoices in a friendly and diplomatic way and persuade them to pay overdue invoices
• Initiate and follow-up the application of advanced payments (‘cash on delivery’)
• Make sure that rescheduled debt installments are paid
• Prepare claims for submission to ATR Americas’ credit insurers or external recovery providers
• Collect and analyze customer disputes (invoicing, pricing, logistics, defective equipment, etc.), forward them to the appropriate technical and commercial services, arrange meetings to follow up on the resolution and/or response to the customer

• Degree in Finance, Economy, Foreign languages with a grounding in accounting with 2 years of job experience
• Ability to verbally communicate effectively with vendors, customers and employees of the organization and build trustful relationships
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Proficient in SAP R/3 Modules FI/CO
• Very good MS Office, advance excel, PBI, and PC skills
• Language skills: English , Spanish (French & Italian are a plus)
• Time management and organization skills
• Attention to detail and thoroughness

French & Italian language skills

• Highly competitive compensation package
• Work-life balance (remote working, paid time off…)
• Well-being / health (supplementary health & welfare coverage…)
• Career paths enabling employees to develop their skills and build a professional project
• Wide choice of development programs for soft and hard skills
• Diversity and inclusion: Over 1200 men & women with more than 35 different nationalities work together in our teams