Accounts Receivable Specialist

KOSTAL Group is a global, family-owned German company that develops market-leading solutions for the solar and automotive industries. The company has been established in 1912 and employs about 20 000 people at 47 locations in 22 countries. In Hungary, KOSTAL is about to build its first business service centre to provide business support in IT, finance, procurement, master data, sales and HR fields. This will be a global centre with high value-added and complex processes.

Overall Purpose of Job:

The role is in charge of facilitating, posting and clearing all third party customer payments for the entities in scope. Provide accurate and up to date financial information to both internal (sales, treasury, etc) and external (customer, auditor, authorities, etc) parties on an established regular basis as well as in response to ad-hoc requests. Facilitate dispute resolution and maintain clean and up-to-date account balances through inter-departmental cooperation and provide simplification ideas and troubleshooting of finance processes via root cause analysis.

Main tasks, roles and responsibilities:

• Involved in and actively shape the transition of accounting processes from European entities to Hungary.
• Involved in day-to-day operations in the following process areas 
• Invoicing
• Incoming payment processing
• Collection management & dunning
• Customer disputes, (eg. Price difference)
• AR Closing and periodical activities
• Adherent to agreed service levels, policies and procedures as well as internal controls
• Discover, evaluate and resolve issues
• Identify and work on process improvements
• Engage in collaboration with the business and stakeholders to develop a professional relationship
• Be the ambassador of our organization towards our Customers
• Ensure that all process manuals/relevant work instructions are created and updated on a regular basis

Experiences and requirements:

Education:

• University or college degree in Finance & Accounting, Economics, Business Administration or experience in Finance & Accounting field

Work experiences – time/seniority/ sector:

• Strong AR knowledge with at least 2 years finance operations role, in SSC
• Experience in a service driven, customer-oriented environment

Technical/ IT knowledge:

• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office tools
• Good knowledge of SAP FI Module

Language – with level 

• Fluent in English

Required Skills and Competencies:

• Communication, interpersonal and analytical skill
• Proactive and outcome-focused attitude
• Self- motivation 

• Flexible working conditions with remote work possibility (in-person presence is required from time to time), you can have a real work-life balance
• Modern, newly renovated, sustainable office with parking space and bicycle storage area in the heart of Budapest
• Competitive salary, benefits and compensation packages (Medicover health insurance, bonuses, an extra day off on your birthday, eyeglasses contribution)
• Supportive, diverse and highly skilled community
• Ability to really make a difference and build new processes from scratch, you can participate in the formation and shape of the BSC processes
• You can enjoy our value-oriented work culture: we are down-to-earth, appreciative, inspiring and innovative