Finance Coordinator – Accounts Payable and Receivable

Role Overview

• Coordinate the review and documentation of financial processes and operational procedures, identifying inconsistencies and assessing the impact of regulatory changes or internal standards, ensuring compliance and standardization of activities.
• Coordinate the processing of Accounts Payable obligations, ensuring validation of open items, generation of bank files and submission of payment remittances, ensuring proper settlement of supplier liabilities.
• Supervise receivables and billing reconciliation routines, ensuring processing of bank remittance and return files and correct accounting clearing in SAP, ensuring integrity of customer balances and visibility of cash flow.
• Manage the handling of Accounts Payable inconsistencies and exceptions, conducting analyses of requests and performing system payment blocks or releases, with a focus on risk mitigation and compliance with financial policies.
• Control the resolution of receipt discrepancies and financial occurrences, performing bank statement analyses, identifying unallocated deposits and issuing system adjustments, ensuring correct clearing of items.
• Monitor risks of protests, liens or financial restrictions against the company, identifying outstanding items, coordinating with internal areas and sending proof of payment to suppliers, preventing reputational impacts and external restrictions.
• Coordinate the operational execution of international payments and foreign services, ensuring system recording of invoices and submission of documentation to financial institutions after treasury completes foreign-exchange settlement.
• Ensure quality service to suppliers and internal customers, coordinating management of operational tickets via ServiceNow and guaranteeing timely resolution of requests within established SLAs.
• Manage commercial discounts/allowances and financial advances, ensuring correct application of contractual discounts and validation of bank return files.
• Validate preparation of operational indicators and management reports for Accounts Payable and Receivable, consolidating SAP data to support decision-making and identify improvement opportunities.
• Manage Confirming / buyer-risk operations, interfacing with banks, suppliers and purchasing, ensuring operational efficiency and support for supply chain financing strategies.
• Coordinate management of the company's corporate cards, including expense monitoring, validation of expense reports and monitoring adherence to the corporate spending policy, ensuring compliance, transparency and correct accounting of expenses.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree: Administration, Accounting, Economics, Production Engineering or related fields.
• Management of SLAs and financial performance indicators (KPIs), with focus on operational control and continuous improvement.
• Experience in internal/external audit processes and financial compliance.
• Experience with banking platforms and treasury/financial routines.
• Knowledge in drafting and validating internal policies.
• Postgraduate degree, MBA or specialization in Finance and Controllership (Preferred).
• Knowledge of SAP, preferably in financial modules related to Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable (FI/AP and FI/AR) (Preferred).
• Familiarity with ticketing systems and approval workflow tools (Preferred).
• Knowledge of financial and tax legislation applicable to import operations and international payments (Preferred).
• Knowledge of LATAM financial routines (Preferred).
• Knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies and process optimization (Preferred).
• Intermediate Spanish (Preferred).

Tech Stack

• ServiceNow

Benefits

• Work model: Hybrid (4 days per week onsite in Joinville).
• Flexible working hours;
• Meal allowance;
• Year-end gift;
• Health insurance;
• Dental insurance;
• Life insurance;
• Private pension plan;
• Wellhub (formerly Gympass);
• Birthday day off;
• Family-friendly policies: extended maternity and paternity leave;
• Discounts on our products;
• Annual bonus (profit-sharing);
• Discounts of up to 50% on medications;
• Health programs.