Job summary
We are looking for an experienced, highly motivated, extremely accurate and self-driven colleague to join our Accounts Receivable team. As Accounts Receivable Accountant you will be part of the Finance Operations team located in Amsterdam. You will be responsible for a variety of Operational Accounts Receivable duties, such as customer invoicing, bank reconciliation, customer Masterdata and Credit Collections. You are a main point of contact for our customers in terms of their invoices and work very closely with Sales team to ensure on time Billing & Cash Collections. Additionally you work closely with management and lead enhancement projects on AR processes.
The team is composed of 12 persons and is in charge of incoming cash flow by overseeing customer billing and payment collection processes.
Key Accountabilities
- Ensures customer invoices are processed accurately and in time
- Reconciliation of bank statements, as well as reconciliation of other methods of payment
- Daily payment allocation and invoice settlement
- Identifies and highlights credit notes and write-off concerns
- Processes daily accounts receivable by monitoring and collecting overdue debtors; actions on significant risk issues and minimizes DSO (Days Sales Outstanding)
- Creates and maintains customer master data
- Escalates issues promptly (dispute management)
- Proactively engages with internal departments for the resolution of customer queries
- Performs Month end closing activities & reconciliations
- Prepares monthly statements for customers
- Develops and maintain professional working relationships with customers, colleagues and other internal departments
- Supports Management at all times to enable the Finance Function achieves its goals and objectives
- Provides reporting when needed
- Analyzes data and identify trends
- Assists in internal and external financial audits, ensuring compliance with internal controls, procedures and policies
- Leads projects on optimization of AR processes
- Liaison with OnGuard and expert on Euronext CRM tool
- Key User on AR processes, working on system upgrades
Experience
- 3+ years’ experience in Accounts Receivable
- 3+ years’ experience in Credit Collections
- Hands-on experience with a world-class ERP system—MS Dynamics a plus
Education and Knowledge
- Clear understanding and solid experience on Order-to-Cash process
- Excellent English skills (written and spoken), French or Dutch (written and spoken) a plus
- Advanced in Excel
Profile and Skills
- Eye for detail and accuracy are imperative
- Highly analytical
- Ability to identify risks
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent organizational skills and follow through
- Displays initiative, highly proactive
- Adaptable and shows flexibility
- Strong negotiation and problem solving skills
- Assertive and persistent with sense of urgency
- Persuasive and able to influence stakeholders at all levels
- Listens to feedback and learns from mistakes
- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Target orientated
We offer
- International team of colleagues and a beautiful office only 2 minutes’ walk from Dam square
- A pleasant, informal and professional company culture of team spirit with a can-do attitude
- Hybrid workplace (3-2 office-home ratio)
- A fast-pace exciting environment which will give you the opportunity to experience an all-around O2C role
- Starting date: asap
- A once in a lifetime adventure in the Dutch exchange
The Company
Euronext Amsterdam, oldest stock exchange in the world
The origin of Euronext can be traced to the founding of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange in the 16th century, the oldest stock exchange in the world. In 2000 Euronext was founded by the strategic merger of exchanges in Amsterdam, Paris and Brussels.
Euronext nowadays is an international, intercultural company, which provides its more than 2,200 employees in more than 20 countries worldwide with a dynamic work environment at a high-tech company. In the Netherlands a total of 200 professionals help build the future of our fast-growing company.
Heart of the Dutch financial capital market
Euronext Amsterdam is located in the lively city centre of Amsterdam at the historical exchange building at Beursplein 5. This historical building is the heart of the Dutch financial capital market. With around 35 tenant companies all active in the ecosystem of the Amsterdam stock exchange, our building functions as a trading, knowledge and network centre in Amsterdam and the Netherlands
Euronext Values
Unity
• We respect and value the people we work with
• We are unified through a common purpose
• We embrace diversity and strive for inclusion
Integrity
• We value transparency, communicate honestly and share information openly
• We act with integrity in everything we do
• We don’t hide our mistakes, and we learn from them
Agility
• We act with a sense of urgency and decisiveness
• We are adaptable, responsive and embrace change
• We take smart risks
Energy
• We are positively driven to make a difference and challenge the status quo
• We focus on and encourage personal leadership
• We motivate each other with our ambition
Accountability
• We deliver maximum value to our customers and stakeholders
• We take ownership and are accountable for the outcome
• We reward and celebrate performance
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or any other legally protected factor. We value the unique talents of all our people, who come from diverse backgrounds with different personal experiences and points of view and we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect.
Additional Information
This job description is only describing the main activities within a certain role and is not exhaustive. It does not prevent to add more tasks, projects.
