Experienced Professional
**A Snapshot of Your Day**
In your role as Accounts Receivable Team Lead:
Team Leadership
- You will lead a team of domain experts, which includes, managing of accounting issues, analysis of errors, initiation of any necessary corrections and leading process improvement activities or initiatives, if needed with support from the Accounts Receivable Function Lead.
- You will supervise daily Accounts Receivable transactions and month-end-closing activities and ensuring they are recorded in a timely and accurate manner, in accordance with IFRS and local GAAP quality standards or any other relevant regulations and guidelines.
Collaboration & Teamwork
- You will be expected to collaborate and build strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders such as regional accounting hubs, local business teams, and other partners within Siemens Energy's local and global communities.
- Listen actively and continuously focused on stakeholder requests, managing complex and uncertain operational issues, while decisively moving forward in taking ownership of decisions, together with the Accounts Receivable Function Lead.
- Share best practices with all relevant stakeholders.
Escalations & Process Improvement
- With your relevant experience, you are leading the Accounts Receivable team in all accounting issues and finding a resolution as a competent contact person.
- Leading the team in process improvement or finance transformation projects or other value-added solutions for your area of expertise.
**How You'll Make an Impact**
Daily Operations, Controls and Process improvements
As a detail oriented and people focused Accounts Receivable Team Lead, through active commitment and involvement, you will be responsible for coordinating people and activities, such as:
- Reconciliation of accounts (Customers & GL)
- Imaging and archiving
- Payment allocation - both manual and automated
- Performing approved subledger correction postings and overseeing subledger correction postings for other team members (e.g.
managing/writing-off of differences)
- Handling & processing of selected payment types, (e.g.
cheques & bill of exchange)
- Proactively handling the resolution of unallocated / problem amounts in the portfolio and supporting resolution of unallocated / problem amounts for other team members
- Perform account reconciliations with external customers (e.g.
incoming customer balance confirmations, dunning letters, follow-up)
- Perform documented KPI and general Accounts Receivable reporting tasks
- Where applicable, oversee the functionality and maintenance of existing automated payment allocation tools in use
- Where applicable, identify improvements in automated payment allocation initiatives
- Ensuring stability in monthly, quarterly and annual financial closing activities, actively providing support to Accounts Receivable team members as a relevant specialist and leader.
- You assist with ad-hoc duties required by management to meet the needs of the business, and coordinate solutions with your team if required.
- Working independently and proactively supporting the Accounts Receivable team members, also providing feedback for more complex issues to the Function Lead.
- You will be responsible for internal controls in Accounts Receivable accounting, also participating in internal and external audits by providing timely and qualitative information and resolve queries from the auditors (where applicable for the assigned countries/legal entities).
- You own the implementation and continuous update of DTP (Desktop Procedure) documentation for existing and creation of DTPs new processes/variances.
- You are actively involved in leading, proposing and coordinating people and processes in continuous improvement initiatives as part of finance transformation projects.
You will support projects related to Accounts Receivable, Mergers and Acquisitions and ERP migration projects, among others.
- Contributing and engaging in standardizing and automating our workflows and Accounts Receivable processes and our cross-functional processes throughout the company.
Career development
- Coach, mentor and develop team members in accordance with career development plans.
Also work closely together with the Function Lead for your own career development purposes.
- With your open-mindedness and willingness to learn, by building your skills and capabilities within our organization, you will support the Accounts Receivable team with the tasks at hand.
- Invest in your own career development by regularly seeking and giving honest feedback and embracing a curious mindset in learning and personal development.
People, process and technology
- Mentor and develop team members from an operational point of view in accordance with business requirements.
Also work closely together with the Function Lead to develop your leadership or operational skills in the field of Accounts Receivable.
- You will be actively contribu