Temporary position to cover a Maternity Leave for 7 months.
To support the LEGO Group with consistent, high quality and customer oriented execution of AR processes and collaborator management, and thereby enable the BSO to succeed in delivering great value to the LEGO organization.
The Accountant plays an important role in establishing a sustainable AR department in the BSO. We need development-oriented employees, all eager to engage actively in building a successful department, valuing collaboration, process excellence, quality and fun in the everyday life.
**Department focus**:
- To engage in establishing an impactful AR department in the new BSO
- To form new relationships with collaborators and thereby ensure sustainable implementation of the global processes.
- Secure timely processing of orders/deliveries/payment posting/invoicing
- Support sales in credit limit decisions
- Timely collection of receivables
- Drive improvement in DSO and overdue
- Challenge business on credit risk
**Responsible for**:
- Delivering a commitment, customer
- and service oriented culture where the outside-in approach is starting point for all AR processes
- Handle debt collection, ensuring all the daily transactional tasks are completed on time and support the Team Lead in handling other ad-hoc tasks.
**Primary tasks includes**:
- Follow up on overdue and collection
- Advise payment allocation
- Fronting Customers to resolve dispute and payment issues
- Ability to release order according to policies
- Monitoring of Credit Limit Utilization (for order release purpose) o Sending of Weekly Aging Report to team members
- Reconciliation of customer accounts
- Follow up on CTT ; Claims & Deduction issues
- Collection Work list (including pre-collection) in SAP
- Prepare and sending of Statement of Accounts
- Provision calculations check (doubtful & bad debt) - adjustments
- Credit Risk Wheel involvement (to highlight on collection issues)
- Outsource to 3rd Party Collection Agencies / Lawyers o Debtor Reporting & Control Tool tasks
**Your Accountabilities and Responsibilities include**:
- Providing advice to Senior Account Managers with regards to payment risks of customers
- Collaborating with Market Finance Controllers in handling the Market Accounts Receivable Aging
- Ensuring the aging and bad debts of your Markets are meeting the KPIs o Executing optimization initiatives within own functional areas and ensuring compliance of company policies and procedures
- Maintaining good relationships with senior collaborators and demanding customers to meet their needs
- Pro activeness in anticipating the service needs from the Order to Cash partners to ensure smooth operations.
- Ready to go above and beyond to create service differentiation
- Take initiative to provide the service through the understanding of customer needs and values
- Understanding the value of service provided and suggest continuous improvement ideas to enhance productivity and efficiency
- Participating in projects that drives process simplification and support regional implementation o Supporting regional process standardization.
**Requirements**:
- 3-5 years of professional working experience, preferably in a related financial role or a position where capabilities are transferable.
- Good negotiation and persuasion skills to achieve short term wins
- Keeping to the SLA promises and has a sense of urgency
- Good Crisis Management and able to contain issues optimally with good Problem-Solving skill
- Personal drive and initiative, excellent collaboration skills and demonstrated ability to build trust and credibility with assigned business areas or other key collaborators
- Confidence in making informed and justifiable decisions for own functional area
- Microsoft Office at expert level Estimated travel activity - up to 10 days per year.
- Preferably proven working experience in a Shared Service Centre environment, where focus have been on optimization and process excellence rather than cost saving
- Be robust, resilient and ability to accept changes + a proactive mind with a can-do demeanor
- Inquisitive minds to challenge the current processes and identify waste
- Knowledge on Lean Management tools is an added advantage
- SAP knowledge preferred.
- English at Advanced - Level 13-16 (C1, C2)
**Join the global LEGO® team**
We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.
The LEGO Group is proud to be an equal opportunity and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
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