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Accounting Sr. Specialist

• Location Monterrey, Mexico

• Job ID 0000016535

• Category Finance

Job Description

Are you ready to join a team of fun-loving and interactive accounting professionals that is ready to delivery results in a timely manner?

Build your expertise in this important role and work for one of the most recognized and loved brands in the world!

Core Responsibilities

The LEGO Business Service Operations (BSO) is a shared service center that delivers HR and Finance services to the entire LEGO Group from 3 locations: Monterrey, Kladno and Singapore. The purpose of the BSO is to create an effective and efficient platform for growth to support our strategy and reach twice as many kids over the next 5-7 years.

• Delivering a successful, customer service culture within the AR department

• Manage debt collection for all Americas. You will be responsible in ensuring all the daily transactional tasks are completed on time and support the Team Lead in handling other ad-hoc tasks.

• Follow up on overdue and collection.

• Advise payment allocation.

• Fronting Customers to resolve dispute and payment issues.

• Ability to release order according to policies.

• Monitoring of Credit Limit Utilization (for order release purpose)

• Sending of Weekly Aging Report to partners

• Reconciliation of customer accounts

• Follow up on CTT; Claims & Deduction issues.

• Collection Worklist (including pre-collection) in SAP

• Prepare and sending of Statement of Accounts

• Provision calculations check (doubtful & bad debt) – adjustments.

• Credit Risk Wheel involvement (to highlight on collection issues)

• Outsource to 3rd Party Collection Agencies / Lawyers

• Debtor Reporting & Control Tool tasks

Accountable for:

• Providing advice to Sales/Country/General Manager with regards to payment risks of customers

• Providing recommendation to Finance Business Partners in managing the Accounts Receivable Aging and risks exposure

• Ensuring the aging and bad debts of your Markets are meeting the critical metrics and coordinating the corrective actions to support/back-up the AR Managers

• Performing optimization initiatives across different functional areas regionally and globally and ensuring compliance of company policies and procedures

• Building and fostering strong strategic relationships with senior partners and demanding customers to meet their needs o Exploring ways to alleviate the service level for Order to Cash with the key partners.

• Ready to really commit to create service differentiation.

• Take initiative to provide the service through the understanding of customer needs and values.

• Building and strengthening professional network globally

• Driving process simplification and lead the implementation of regional and global standardization as a Regional Functional Team Lead

NOTE: Please submit your resume in english and highlight achievements.

Play your part in our team succeeding.

To support the LEGO Group with consistent, high quality and customer-oriented execution of AR processes and partner management, and thereby enable the BSO to succeed in delivering great value to the LEGO organization.

The Senior Specialist plays an important role in establishing a sustainable AR department in the BSO. We need employees all eager to engage actively in building a successful department, valuing collaboration, process excellence, quality, and fun in the everyday life.

Do you have what it takes?

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Accounting, Finance, Administration or related.

• +4 years’ experience in similar positions.

• Microsoft Office at advance experienced level

• Analytical, detail - and high-quality oriented

• Be robust, resilient and ability to embrace changes, as well as having a proactive mind with a can-do attitude.

• Personal drive and initiative, excellent collaboration skills and demonstrated ability to build trust and credibility with assigned business areas or other key collaborators.

• SAP experience is preferred.

• Preferably proven working experience in international accounting environment.

• Audit experience is an advantage.

• Advanced English spoken & written.

What’s in it for you? Here are some of what to expect:

• Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

• Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

• Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based.

• Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

• Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached, you’ll be rewarded through our global bonus scheme.

• Your workplace – Our offices will be your primary workplace with flexibility to work from home during your working week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model, role eligibility and frequency with you.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. however, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here are some of what to expect:

Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme

Your workplace – When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.

Research shows that women and people from different minority backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

Online Application Accessibility Statement; which is intended forpeople with disabilities- LEGO systems endeavors to make www.LEGO.com/jobs accessible to any and all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our web site or need assistance completing the application process, please contact the HR Service Desk at 1.860-763-7777, option #3. Please note, these communication channels should be used for those having difficulty accessing our on-line channels, not to inquire about job opportunities.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.