Accounts Receivable Specialist - France

📊 Role Overview:

We are looking for a motivated and detail-oriented AR Accountant to join our team. Depending on experience, the position can be offered at Junior or Regular level. The role covers daily AR accounting operations, customer reconciliations, month-end closing, reporting and cooperation with internal teams. You should have a practical and structured approach, good communication skills and an interest in developing within Accounts Receivable.

📌 Key Responsibilities:

1. Perform daily AR accounting operating, including journal booking, intercompany activities and reconciliation etc. (end to end ownership) for France

- Make sure it’s accurate and on a timely basis

- Ensure all transactions are booked and comply with company policies and accounting standards

2. Process, verify and clear receivables by appropriate measures in alignment with Sales team, as well as liaising customers for reconciliations. Take care of bad debt booking and tracking

- Major customers should provide confirmation letter or reconciliation accumulated.

- Clear the customer payment timely and report the difference or error of payment to sales team.

- Processing and coding credit and debit notes.

3. Conduct monthly closing processes efficiently with high quality.

- Prepare and submit regular accounts receivable report, and check the invoices to match with sales orders. Work with M&O team to solve the invoice issues to make sure monthly closing smoothly.

4. AR aging/ reconciliation and reporting on a monthly basis. Work with internal SAP team to optimize automatic reporting system or processing.

- Monthly AR provision calculation and booking. Ensure all promotions can be accrued accurately. Prepare and analysis on monthly Aging report. Work with M&O team and sales team for payment chasing and clearing.

5. Corporate with oversea local auditors, prepare internal and external audit.

- send the monthly AR reports and details to local accounting team, and work with them to ensure the accounting accounts can match with accounting team monthly, and provide reports and materials to auditors

-Provide necessary support to the tax team for tax audits.

-Support the audit team in auditing the accounts receivable modules.

-Fully support on EU entities AR reconciliations between local agent books vs SAP books

6. Prepare FR reconciliations with local agent.

- Work with local agent for monthly, yearly accounting books’ reconciliations compare IFRS and local GAAP.

💡Skills & Experience:

Majored in Accounting, Finance.

Minimum of 1 year of experience in financial accounting. Working experiences in FMCG or Finance Shared Service Center is preferred.

Strong written and verbal communication skills in both French and English as the role requires interaction with both EU local and Chinese team.

Experience with ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics).

Practical mindset with a proactive, solutions-oriented approach.

Excellent communication skills, highly organized and detail-oriented. Capable of working independently and valuing teamwork.

Nice to have: EDI experience, particularly with Factur-X.

LIFE@ZURU

At ZURU, we have cultivated a high-performing culture that encourages excellence. Our team works towards ambitious goals, learning, performing, and improving together, all while having fun. We empower talented individuals to do their best work every day.

At ZURU, you get out what you put in. You are responsible for driving your own career and we provide the platform to achieve it. As ZURU is on such a fast growth trajectory, there are opportunities here that you won’t find anywhere else.

We recognise that ZURU’s success stems from our people and you can only be at your best when you are looking after yourself. ZURU encourages all our team members to invest in their wellbeing by providing an array of benefits and tools.

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