Junior Accounts Receivable Specialist

Summary

Join KOSTAL Group, a global leader in solar and automotive solutions, as a Finance & Accounting professional. This role focuses on facilitating, posting, and clearing third-party customer payments, ensuring accurate financial information for internal and external stakeholders. You will manage collections, investigate payment discrepancies, and resolve disputes. The position offers remote work flexibility within Hungary, with occasional office presence. Experience in accounts receivable (AR) within a shared service center (SSC) is essential, along with strong communication and analytical skills. This role contributes to process improvement and building strong customer relationships.

Requirements

• University or college degree in Finance & Accounting, Economics, Business Administration or experience in Finance & Accounting field
• Strong AR knowledge with at least 1-2 years finance operations role, in SSC
• Experience in a service driven, customer-oriented environment
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office tools
• Good knowledge of SAP FI Module
• Fluent in English
• Communication, interpersonal and analytical skill
• Proactive and outcome-focused attitude
• Self-motivation

Responsibilities

• Facilitate, post, and clear 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
• Provide simplification ideas and troubleshooting of finance processes via root cause analysis
• Involved in day-to-day operations in the following process areas: Incoming payment processing and payment differences investigation
• Collection management & dunning
• Credit management
• Invoicing
• Customer disputes
• 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

Benefits

The work can be managed remotely – with time-to-time office presence depending on the team’s agreement and the demand of the respective professional area – from any location in Hungary