Accountant Ar

At Kuoni Tumlare, we deliver truly inspiring and innovative solutions and experiences that create value both for our Partners and Society at large. Our wide portfolio of products and solutions is built on 100+ years of destination management experience.

Our solutions include series tours, technical visits, educational tours, Japanspecialist travel consulting, as well as meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions. Our product portfolio includes MyBus excursions at destinations as well as guaranteed departure tours devised and delivered by our Seat-in-Coach specialists, Europamundo (EMV) and MyBus Landcruise.

We cater to a wide range of customer needs in close collaboration with our trusted suppliers and powered by our team of destinations experts - enabling us to make a real difference to the world.

Our global Finance function acts as a driver of integration across our businesses. The new set-up operates across four central principles:

- Local finance ensure operational execution according to local requirements
- Global process owners for OTC, PTP and RTR are in charge of standardisation & optimisation
- The St. Petersburg Finance hub performs transactional finance activities

As a Accountant AR you proactively collaborate with other departments, local accounting offices, the Finance hub in St. Petersburg, business stakeholders and external agents on all company receivable and credit control issues. You support timely and accurate process delivery, diagnosing issues, cascading them to responsible departments and implementing solutions to increase process efficiency. Furthermore, you help monitoring the accounts receivables and related AX accounts to make sure that the open balances are existing and valid.

In this role you report to the Head of Finance Switzerland and coordinate closely with other local AR offices around the world as well as stakeholders within own business area of responsibility. Your key relationships will be with Finance team Zurich and Finance Hub in St. Petersburg, Other finance departments, Treasury department, Business Partners.

**Key Activities**:

- Carry out all AR tasks & activities alongside the AR local office as well as Finance Hub in St. Petersburg (SPB). It requires to:

- working with Business Partners to ensure invoicing is accurate and sent to clients with appropriate back-up, process and record daily client remittances and collections, posts customers payments by recording cash, checks, and credit card transactions in AX
- Resolve collections by examining customer payment plans, payment history, and credit line
- Maintains and manage receivables by reviewing invoice accounts, verifying totals, preparing statement and report, prepare monthly ageing and bad debt analysis
- Validate AR Payments:

- Generate an electronic (bank) payment file
- Edit the status of a payment journal
- Produce and monitor Client remittance advice, post a payment journal
- Maintains and manage receivables by reviewing invoice accounts, verifying totals, preparing statement and report, prepare monthly ageing and bad debt analysis
- Create and post AR GL Journal Entries
- Create, update and maintain various AR Reports
- Cooperate with the Finance team to assure accurate and timely request processing as per agreed standards and time frame
- Provide timely and accurate advice to business partner from local offices on payment related queries
- Provide clients with accurate and prompt responses to any queries they may have
- Sales Invoice compliance checks
- Active participation in projects related to Order to Cash (OTC) processes

**To succeed in this role, you **must** have**:

- At least 3 years of experience in Finance & Accounting in a multinational corporation
- Certificate in Finance and Accounting - “Fachausweis in Finanz
- und Rechnungswesen” or equivalent education
- Good understanding of end-to-end AR processes
- Strong knowledge in MS Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint
- Good communication skills with the ability to navigate and coordinate successfully within the company
- Fluent in English

Optional
- Experience with/Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics AX
- Good understanding of Swiss and German VAT
- German

**We are looking for this personality**:

- Team player who takes over responsibility
- Eye for details and a focus on accuracy
- Positive and open-minded with a “can do” attitude
- Very good communicator, with the ability and credibility to build relationships and to operate at all levels in a professional, courteous manner
- Able to work accurately whilst under pressure to achieve multiple deadlines

**What we offer**:

- Opportunity to work in an international environment.
- Diverse & Inclusive culture.
- Learning and training opportunities for growth.
- Dedicated Employee Engagement Activities.
- Flexible & Hybrid Working