Accounts Receivable Accountant

About the job

Are you knowledgeable in Accounts Receivable and looking for a new opportunity? Vattenfall is now seeking the right person to fill the position of Accounts Receivable Accountant in Finance Business Support.

The team manages customer invoicing that’s not directly related to Vattenfall’s electricity business. To streamline operations, the department has outsourced most of its transactional tasks to an external partner.

We are now looking for a new team member in our international team who can provide support to our outsourcing partner and our internal stakeholders and contribute to the continuous improvements of our processes.

Your job

Besides process steering and support of outsourced activities, the Accounts Receivable team, as part of the retained organization, will perform activities in the area of collection and will secure the monthly, quarterly, and year-end closing process from an Accounts Receivable perspective.

You will be part of integrating new technologies and innovative solutions into our processes to enhance efficiency and innovation.

As we look towards the future, we anticipate that our employees will increasingly focus on leveraging technology to drive improvements and efficiencies, rather than on operational tasks.

You have the following main tasks :

• Support our outsourcing partner and monitor their delivery
• Support our Vattenfall companies with knowledge of our processes
• Plan and manage closing activities
• Drive innovation and develop our processes
• Contribute to good relationships and good service towards internal customers and external suppliers / customers / BPO provider
• Execute services with high quality following common processes, policies, and guidelines

Location

Berlin

Your profile

Your profile

We are looking for an Accounts Receivable Accountant who has a relevant University degree or similar experience from finance operations and 3-5 years of experience within Finance operations in a Shared Service organization.

Your command of English AND German is strong, both verbally and written. In addition, the following qualifications are important for this position :

• Experience from working within transactional finance processes
• Experience from working within SAP environment
• Good knowledge of the accounts receivable processes
• Good understanding of the OrderToCash EndToEnd perspective
• Interest in new technology and innovation

Your personal characteristics :

• Good collaboration skills
• Passionate about new technologies and innovation, and eager to apply them to improve processes and drive efficiency
• Self-driven with an ability to work individually and comfortable in taking independent decisions
• Proactive, solution-oriented, and able to create credibility and engagement
• Ability to work in large and complex organizations and to handle internal and external interfaces effectively

Additional information

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity.

Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process.

The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening will be performed by a third party, Validata.

We look forward to receiving your application!

About the company

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately . employees. For more than years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation.

We are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.