Accounts Payable Specialist (m/f)

Air Liquide Europe Business Services (ALEBS) was created in 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal with the mandate to provide financial services for Air Liquide European entities. In the space of 4 years, it has expanded to over 400 employees based in 3 office locations: Lisbon, Tomar and Guarda. The geographical scope was extended to include, besides the European affiliates also entities located in Africa, Middle-East and India, and the operational scope was extended and includes today not just Finance, but also Human Resources.

 

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

 

Join our expert team as an Accounts Payable Specialist, a role central to maintaining financial accuracy and stability. You will be instrumental in ensuring and supporting all general AP activities, guaranteeing payments are processed on time, and executing meticulous analyses and reconciliations. Your commitment to high-quality service and corporate standards will directly impact our operations.

 

Your Key Responsibilities and Impact Areas:

• Process invoices and credit notes efficiently, ensuring precise and timely transactional flow.

• Manage and resolve supplier queries, acting as a crucial liaison for strong vendor relations.

• Retrieve and collect data systematically to successfully support internal and external audit requests.

• Review or prepare payment proposals, contributing to optimized cash management strategies.

• Review or prepare detailed supplier reconciliations (both debtor and creditor balances) to safeguard data integrity.

• Process Advance/Urgent payments, handling exceptions with urgency and accuracy.

• Report and monitor needs for bank details changes in Master Data, upholding security protocols.

• Manage blocked invoices, including generating, analyzing, recording, and correcting blocked invoice reports to clear bottlenecks.

 

Are you a MATCH?

 

We are seeking an experienced, analytical, and process-driven Accounts Payable professional ready for a challenging role.

• Degree in Accounting / Financial / Management / Economy (Nice to have, adding strategic depth to your work).

• More than 4 years of solid, hands-on experience in a similar Accounts Payable or accounting function.

• Experience in a Business Services Center is a strong plus.

• Experience working effectively within a multinational company environment is desirable.

• Intermediate proficiency in English (written and spoken) is required.

• Extra languages are valued.

What we offer

• International Hub: Work in a highly diverse, multilingual team within a rapidly expanding global company.

• Culture: Join a place where an informal culture meets serious flexibility, ensuring you feel integrated and maintain excellent work-life balance.

• Benefits: We value your well-being and offer 26 vacation days, health and life insurance.

• Flexibility: We like to meet in person but also offer hybrid working (2 days a week).

• Career Growth: Benefit from tailored training programs and clear career progression paths within our GBS organization and beyond within Air Liquide.

• Competitive Package: We offer a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and relocation support (where applicable).

 

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.