Accountant, Accounts Receivable

About Buhler:

Two billion people eat food every day that was produced with Bühler equipment. One billion people drive vehicles whose parts were manufactured with our machines.

Bühler aims to balance humanity, nature, and the economy in every decision as it develops solutions that unlock sustainable business opportunities in the global food, feed, and mobility industries.

We strive to create innovations for a better world, with a special focus on healthy, safe, and sustainable solutions. Therefore, we team up with customers, start-ups, multinationals, and academia to accelerate impact together.

About The Role:

The role focuses on ensuring accurate and timely posting of invoices with correct GST codes, integrating payment receipts into SAP, and communicating with the Operations team. Additionally, it involves preparing Debit Notes, FI Credit Notes, and FI Invoices, conducting Intercompany AR reconciliation, completing period-end closing activities, and reporting operational issues while providing support for resolution.

Responsibilities

1. Ensure invoices are posted timely and correctly with the correct GST code.
2. Ensure that payments received in banks are posted into SAP and inform the Operations team on a timely basis.
3. Ensure that Debit Notes/FI Credit Notes/FI Invoices are prepared timely and correctly according to requirements.
4. Conduct Intercompany AR reconciliation.
5. Complete period-end closing activities for accounts receivable.
6. Report operational process issues to the team leader and support in issue resolution.
7. Back-up as other legal entities' AR when required.

Ad-hoc Responsibilities

1. Support transfer of activities from legal entities into the GBS.
2. Ensure up-to-date operations manual.
3. Support onboarding of new employees.
4. Other ad-hoc activities as required by the business.

Qualifications

1. Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration or equivalent Accounting qualification.
2. Language skills: fluent in English and one additional Asian language due to the nature of the scope.
3. 2-3 years of experience in accounting, specifically accounts receivables, preferably in a Shared Services Centre environment.
4. Deep and broad understanding of accounts receivables.
5. Working experience with SAP FI; proficient in the use of SAP & Hyperion system for journal entry and month-end cockpit.
6. Advanced knowledge of MS Office tools (MS Outlook and Excel).
7. Proficiency in local accounting standards and experience with IFRS.
8. Experience working in multinational companies is a plus.
9. Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.