Accounts Receivable Accountant – Permanent

Role Overview

• As an Accounts Receivable Accountant within the accounting team, you are responsible for the entire receivables management cycle.
• Your key responsibilities include validating and recording sales flows (from the management tool into accounting), optimizing collections, reconciling accounts and managing the dunning process.
• You will be the primary contact for internal teams (Sales, Order Management/Administration (ADV), Operations) and will sometimes liaise directly with clients.
• You will work in an empowering environment where everyone is expected to take initiative.
• Sales Flow Management: Verify correct integration and ensure validation and accounting entries for sales invoices (digital training, cooking classes, events, B2B, B2C).
• Ensure correct application of VAT and commercial terms and conditions.
• Receivables and Cash Management: Record and allocate incoming payments (bank transfers, checks, online payments).
• Perform customer account reconciliation (matching and clearing).
• Manage disputes and credit notes related to billing.
• Proactive monitoring of the aged receivables and overdue accounts: identify payment deviations, analyze root causes and alert internal teams to prevent the risk of bad debt.
• Implement the amicable dunning process (phone, e-mail) to optimize working capital (WCR / BFR).
• Prepare and post monthly closing entries related to the customer cycle (PCA [deferred revenue], FAE [invoices to be issued], provisions for doubtful accounts).
• Account analysis: perform reconciliations, controls and analyses required for the review, explain variances and support account balances for monthly reporting.
• Analytics: Ensure dual allocation of revenue (general ledger and analytical accounting by entity/location).
• Participate in continuous improvement of invoicing and collections processes.
• Actively participate in monthly, semi-annual and annual closings, providing account support to the external accountant and statutory auditors.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 to 5 years of accounting experience (accounts receivable or auxiliary accounting), gained in a firm or an SME.
• Excellent Excel skills (advanced functions, pivot tables, logical formulas, etc.).
• Meticulous, organized and able to manage priorities effectively.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a high degree of diplomacy required for client contact during collection phases.
• Proactive, solution-oriented and a team player.
• Able to quickly report anomalies, inconsistencies or blockages, even when they involve other teams.
• Able to challenge existing processes and propose concrete improvements.
• Proven ability to meet closing deadlines.
• Able to take end-to-end responsibility for assigned tasks and work autonomously.
• Knowledge of Sage 100 and/or an invoicing/collections tool (or e-invoicing solution) is a real plus!

Tech Stack

• Flux

Benefits

• A well-structured onboarding program to help you settle in.
• Flexible working arrangements with the possibility to work remotely.
• Comprehensive health insurance.
• Compensation package (base salary + variable bonus).
• 50% public transport reimbursement and meal vouchers (tickets restaurant).
• A CAP vocational training course in the field of your choice provided.