ATR - Accountant & Credit Management Officer

About the role

ATR is the world's number one aircraft manufacturer in regional aviation, providing a new generation of turboprops. ATR Americas (AAS) is the primary hub for supporting the Americas and Caribbean regions. The dedicated team comprises departments such as Support & Services, Quality, HR, Commercial and Finance. Based in Miami, our Training Center reflects ATR's commitment to tailored training programs aligned with aircraft characteristics and operator needs. From the world’s largest cities, to our planet’s most remote regions, our purpose is to deliver air travel to people, communities and businesses in an innovative, sustainable and modern way.

Responsibilities

• Manage and process payments by receiving, verifying, and reconciling invoices.
• Analyze and charge expenses to appropriate accounts and cost centers.
• Prepare and schedule vendor payments, monitor discount opportunities, and resolve discrepancies.
• Continuing to improve the payment process (in particular SAP cockpit).
• Ensure timely posting of incoming customer payments and apply them to outstanding invoices.
• Produce monthly customer account statements and manage customer account reconciliations.
• Update approved customer credit lines.
• Maintain customer accounts in SAP by updating approved credit lines & payment terms.
• Follow and limit credit risk by releasing customer orders based on an assessment of overdue invoices and their maturity as well as the credit.
• Keep track of incoming payments of customers, post them timely to their accounts and apply them to outstanding invoices based on customer.
• Apply credit notes to customer invoices.
• Maintain concise customer accounts by clearing invoices with payments and inserting appropriate references.
• Communicate with customers.
• Produce and provide customer account statements on a monthly basis as well as on request.
• Obtain customer financial statements for the Head of Finance to assess customer solvency and ATR Americas' credit risk and whether or not a credit line can be established.
• Ensure on time payments from customers by communication through e-mail or video calls.
• Follow up with customers on overdue invoices in a friendly and diplomatic way and persuade them to pay overdue invoices.
• Initiate and follow-up the application of advanced payments ('cash on delivery').
• Make sure that rescheduled debt installments are paid.
• Prepare claims for submission to ATR Americas' credit insurers or external recovery providers.
• Collect and analyze customer disputes (invoicing, pricing, logistics, defective equipment, etc.), forward them to the appropriate technical and commercial services, arrange meetings to follow up on the resolution and/or response to the customer.

Requirements

• Degree in Finance, Economy, Foreign languages with a grounding in accounting.
• 2 years of job experience.
• Ability to verbally communicate effectively with vendors, customers and employees of the organization and build trustful relationships.
• Problem solving and analytical skills.
• Proficient in SAP R/3 Modules FI/CO.
• Very good MS Office, advance excel, PBI, and PC skills.
• Language skills: English, Spanish (French & Italian are a plus).
• Time management and organization skills.
• Attention to detail and thoroughness.

Qualifications

• People Centric
• Entrepreneurial
• Inspiring
• Exemplary
• Innovative
• Humble

Skills

• Strong communication skills
• Able to work independently on certain tasks
• Financial risk steering
• Customer order assessment
• Bank guarantee management
• Payment process improvement
• Customer account maintenance
• Customer dispute resolution
• Debt recovery

Benefits

Highly competitive compensation package

Work-life balance (remote working, paid time off)

Well-being / health (supplementary health & welfare coverage)

Career paths enabling employees to develop their skills and build a professional project

Wide choice of development programs for soft and hard skills

Diversity and inclusion: Over 1200 men & women with more than 35 different nationalities work together in our teams!

ATR is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.