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?
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.
Skills Required
- Degree in Accounting / Financial / Management / Economy
- More than 4 years of hands-on experience in a similar Accounts Payable or accounting function
- Experience in a Business Services Center
- Intermediate proficiency in English (written and spoken)
Air Liquide Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Air Liquide and has not been reviewed or approved by Air Liquide.
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Healthcare Strength — Health insurance and life coverage are broadly provided under a global common care baseline that includes inpatient and outpatient healthcare. Dental and vision coverage are present in many locations, and short-term disability provisions have been enhanced.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies provide at least 14 weeks of fully paid maternity leave globally and paid parental leave for non-birthing parents in the U.S. Childcare benefits are available in some countries as part of the package.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Annual incentive bonuses, performance bonuses for exceeding goals, and profit-sharing are integrated into the total rewards structure. Feedback suggests additional earning avenues like overtime can further augment pay in eligible roles.
Air Liquide Insights
What We Do
A world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, Air Liquide is present in 75 countries with approximately 66,400 employees and serves more than 3.8 million customers and patients. Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen are essential small molecules for life, matter and energy. They embody Air Liquide’s scientific territory and have been at the core of the company’s activities since its creation in 1902.
