Junior Accounts Receivable Specialist

Summary

Join KOSTAL Group, a global leader in solar and automotive solutions, as a Finance professional responsible for managing third-party customer payments. This role involves processing payments, managing collections, resolving disputes, and ensuring accurate financial reporting. The position requires strong AR knowledge, experience in a customer-oriented environment, and fluency in English and Spanish. Work is primarily remote, with occasional office presence in Budapest, Hungary. KOSTAL offers competitive salary and benefits, including health insurance, bonuses, and a supportive work environment.

Requirements

• Possess a university or college degree in Finance & Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or have equivalent experience in the Finance & Accounting field
• Have strong AR knowledge with at least 1-2 years of finance operations experience in an SSC
• Have experience in a service-driven, customer-oriented environment
• Possess good knowledge of Microsoft Office tools
• Possess good knowledge of SAP FI Module
• Be fluent in English and Spanish
• Demonstrate communication, interpersonal, and analytical skills
• Exhibit a proactive and outcome-focused attitude
• Be self-motivated

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
• Be involved in day-to-day operations in incoming payment processing and payment differences investigation
• Manage collections and dunning
• At a later stage: Manage credit, invoicing, and customer disputes
• Perform AR closing and periodical activities
• Adhere to agreed service levels, policies, procedures, and internal controls
• Discover, evaluate, and resolve issues
• Identify and work on process improvements
• Collaborate with the business and stakeholders to develop a professional relationship
• Be the ambassador of our organization towards our Customers

Benefits

• Flexible working conditions with remote work possibility (in-person presence is required from time to time)
• Modern, newly renovated, sustainable office with parking space and bicycle storage area in the heart of Budapest
• Competitive salary, benefits, and compensation packages (Medicover health insurance with dental care, bonuses, an extra day off on your birthday, eyeglasses contribution)
• Supportive, diverse and highly skilled community
• Ability to really make a difference and build new processes from scratch, you can participate in the formation and shape of the BSC processes