Banks & Accounts Receivable Accountant

To further develop our Shared Service Centre, we are looking for an effective Accountant who will be responsible for timely and accurately processing bank and AR transactions, ensuring quality on a day-to-day basis and cooperating with Finance and Customer Services in a multinational environment.

We are looking for a highly motivated person, who is ready to take a lot of challenging tasks and who is ready to take a big step towards a fulfilling career.

Gdansk, Poland

As a part of the Banks & AR team you will be co-responsible for:

• Bank payment processing, including:
• Generating payments list based on approved invoices and due dates
• Entering them into the banking system, coordination of approvals
• Posting bank payments to AP ledgers
• Bank statements accounting according to Hempel rules, including calculation and posting of:
• Payments received from customers, together with accurate matching against AR invoices
• Payments to suppliers / other liabilities
• Currency revaluations
• Other transactions
• Issuing “non-goods” sales invoices
• IC invoices for services
• Third party invoices for cost reimbursements, where required
• Other invoices, where required
• Maintaining proper documentation for the above
• Timely and accurate bank reconciliations, including proactive approach to resolving unidentified payments
• Weekly open customer accounts reporting

• As an ideal candidate you will have a University degree in Accounting, Finance or other
• You have minimum 1 year professional experience on similar position
• You are very good in English – verbal as well as writing (second european language would be seen as an asset)
• You have a proficiency in using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel)
• You are highly motivated and organized person
• You are a person who works well as a member of a team
• Good organisational skills
• You have ability to work with deadlines

In Hempel we offer a variety of global career possibilities and many cross functional and cross cultural working relationships. We strive to create the right conditions for personal and professional development.