Accounts Receivable Specialist

**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.

* 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.