Team Lead - Accounts Receivable

A Snapshot of Your Day

As an Accounts Receivable Team Lead, you will combine operational leadership with hands-on accounting expertise, guiding a team of Accounts Receivable specialists while ensuring high-quality financial operations across the business. You will act as the key point of contact for complex accounting topics, driving issue resolution, process excellence and continuous improvement.

Working closely with regional accounting hubs, local business teams and global stakeholders, you will oversee daily operations and month-end closing activities, ensuring compliance with IFRS, local GAAP and internal quality standards. You will also support transformation initiatives, share best practices and help strengthen collaboration across Siemens Energy's global finance community.

This role offers the opportunity to lead people, improve processes and contribute to the ongoing development of a modern, efficient and customer-focused Accounts Receivable function.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Lead and support the Accounts Receivable team in daily operations, including account reconciliations, payment allocation, imaging and archiving, subledger correction postings, handling selected payment types, and resolution of unallocated or disputed items.
• Ensure timely and accurate execution of monthly, quarterly and annual closing activities in accordance with IFRS, local GAAP and internal control requirements, while acting as the escalation point for complex accounting issues.
• Oversee customer account reconciliations, dunning activities, balance confirmations, KPI reporting and Accounts Receivable performance monitoring, ensuring high-quality service and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Maintain and enhance Accounts Receivable processes, controls and documentation, including ownership of Desktop Procedures (DTPs), audit support activities, automated payment allocation tools and compliance with internal and external audit requirements.
• Lead and coordinate continuous improvement, finance transformation, ERP migration, M&A and automation initiatives, contributing to the standardization and digitalization of Accounts Receivable and cross-functional finance processes.
• Coach, mentor and develop team members, foster knowledge sharing and strong stakeholder relationships, and support a culture of accountability, continuous learning and operational excellence across people, processes and technology.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field, combined with solid professional experience in Accounts Receivable and finance operations.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in Accounts Receivable Accounting and Finance Operations, including at least 2 years in a team leadership or supervisory role.
• Strong knowledge of accounting principles, IFRS requirements and financial controls, with experience managing closing activities, audits and operational accounting processes.
• Very good MS Office skills, particularly Excel, together with a strong understanding of business processes and transactions within SAP.
• Experience supporting transitions, process improvement, finance transformation, ERP migration or other business change initiatives.
• Fluent English communication skills, an open and collaborative mindset, strong stakeholder management abilities and willingness to travel for knowledge transfers, training sessions or workshops when required.

About the Team

Our Corporate and Global Functions are essential in driving the company's strategic initiatives and ensuring operational excellence across various departments, business areas, and regions. These roles support our vision to become the most valued energy technology company in the world. As part of our team, you contribute to our vision by shaping the global energy transition, partnering with our internal and external stakeholders, and conducting business responsibly and in compliance with legal requirements and regulations

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Office

Siemens Energy's location in One Cotroceni Park is more than just an office space - it's a hub for a vibrant and thriving community. Nestled in the heart of Bucharest, this urban development is the perfect place to work, surrounded by green spaces, shopping destinations, and everything the city center has to offer. And with the Academia Militara subway station just a 3-minute walk away, getting around the city has never been easier.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character ??? no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits:

• Your lunch with SE meal tickets
• Keep your brain fit with our trainings
• Special for books lovers - Bookster
• Stay safe and healthy with our medical subscription
• Think about your future too with Private Pension Pilon III
• Take care of yourself with our Wellbeing Initiatives

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