Beschreibung

**Account Receivables Specialist**

The World Economic Forum, committed to improving the state of the world, is the international organization for public-private cooperation.

The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.

**Why we are recruiting**

To face business growth, the Accounts Receivables sub-team needs additional resources to maintain and guarantee its high level of service.

**Reporting Lines & Interactions**

The Account Receivable Specialist will be in a team of two people, within the wider finance operations team of eight, and reports to the Accounting Manager.

Responsibilities

* Management of Account Receivables, including:
* Booking incoming cash
* Iinvoicing and credit invoicing
* Monitoring the AR Inbox
* Addressing all AR queries (internally & externally)
* Completing vendors form and online payment platforms
* Performing aging analysis
* Booking and reconciling credit card payments
* Producing weekly reports for centre and function heads
* Assisting in ad-hoc projects

Contribute to preparing monthly / quarterly/ annual financial closing, including:

* Prepare relevant balance sheet account reconciliations
* Completing revenue recognition tasks
* Producing DSO, Bad Debts and Unpaids reports for the management reporting pack
* Supporting the Interim and Year End Audit process for AR

Credit Control, including:

* Collaborating closely with key stakeholders on credit control/collection
* Managing the payment reminder scheduled to be sent for overdue invoices
* Managing  customer overdue invoices with external partners / members
* Managing the list of participants registered to events and send external communications regarding the admission policy
* Collecting all open invoices prior to the start of an event

Projects, including:

* Improving key performance metrics for Unpaids (open invoices)
* Utilising existing tools to improve credit control management 
* Identifying continuous improvement activities across the Accounts Receivable landscape

Academic qualifications

* Bachelor in finance or Brevet Federal in Accounting
* Work experience and skills
* 3 to 5 years of experience in financial accounting
* Excellent knowledge in cost accounting and VAT
* Excellent spoken and written English - French is an advantage
* Ability to organize workload and to prioritise multiple workstreams
* High sense of urgency and commitment to objectives
* Confident and able to present to senior management

**Why join us?**




Join an independent and impartial organization with over 55 years of connecting leaders to make sense of global challenges and move the world forward together.