Junior Accountant, Accounts Receivable

Role Overview

• Performs the administrative tasks of the respective process.
• Contributes to the Financial Statements elaboration.
• Ensures compliance with the legal regulations, the accounting rules and the internal controls, following the standards and procedures defined by the Group experts and process managers.
• Applies financial processes and tools, involving financial flows and transactions according to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
• Applies specific finance and transactional knowledge in Accounts Receivable process.
• Defines the accounting structure and principles for general accounting and other financial and administrative transactions related to Accounts Receivable process and supports the harmonization between the different legal entities of the scope.
• Proposes continuous improvement actions on Accounts Receivable process and systems.
• Allocates the Incoming payments to the invoices manually or through electronic tools.
• Customer contract analysis and registers them in SAP, including data creation and modification.
• Issues commercial delivery invoices, credit notes and advanced payments invoices according to legal, accounting and tax rules.
• Sends the invoices to the customer, including additional documentation for payment by post mail, email or electronic transmission when it is applicable.
• Gets and verifies external documentation like Airway Bill, Bill of Lading, Transfer of Title, Customer´s certificates, and others.
• Analyzes and prepares the debtor's statement of account.
• Sends to the customer reconciliation debt letters monthly.
• Collaborates with business in the customer dunning process attending different debt committees and supplying debts reports.
• Conducts customer bad debt analysis (including documentation), posts bad debt provision when appropriate.
• Performs Customers Write-off postings.
• Analyzes Balance Sheet related accounts (Receivables, advanced payments).
• Prepares ageing report and sends it to the Business Support to the different audit process KPIs elaboration.
• Application of internal controls in the transactions’ postings.
• Other Reports

Requirements

• Junior accountant (recent graduates) with Finance/Accounting/Business Admin/Economic degree or with experience on accounting administrative tasks.
• Knowledge of accounting field and capacity to implement actions.
• Accounting transactions and closing.
• Internal Financial Control Standards.
• Accounting Systems (SAP), preferable Lean principles for process continuous improvement.
• Capacity to understand customer mindset and to translate in concrete actions.
• IFRS and accounting processes.
• Capacity to interact and influence with customers from different locations (US/Europe).
• English
• Advanced Level.
• Other language is a nice to have.

Benefits

• Diverse career opportunities within Airbus European core countries or in other regions around the world.
• A hybrid working model, allowing you to combine onsite and offsite work.
• A motivated and fun crew to grow and build and shape the GBS together.
• An intense and exciting onboarding experience