Team Lead Accounts Payable (f/m/d)

Working at Freudenberg: "We will wow your world!" This is our promise. As a global technology group, we not only make the world cleaner, healthier and more comfortable, but also offer our 52,000 employees a networked and diverse environment where everyone can thrive individually. Be surprised and experience your own wow moments. Together with our partners, customers and the world of science, we develop leading-edge technologies, and excellent products and services for about 40 markets and for thousands of applications: seals, vibration control components, batteries and fuel cells, technical textiles, filters, cleaning technologies and products, specialty chemicals and medical products.

Some of your Benefits

• Company Pension: Save for retirement with the company's help.
• Cafeteria/ Canteen: We offer fresh food on-site, both hot and cold.
• Flexible Work Models: We allow for flexible work models to ensure both professional and personal success.
• International Opportunities: Grow in your career through international exchange and global job opportunities.
• On-site Medical Service: Our on-site medical service can handle a variety of medical needs.

Hybrid Work

You support our team as

Team Lead Accounts Payable (f/m/d)

Responsibilities

• Leadership & Collaboration:You lead the sub-ledger areas Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Cross Services and work closely with our Shared Service Center in Eastern Europe.
• Together with your team, you manage performance, master data, and workload related to invoices, payments, and travel expenses.
• You are responsible for day-to-day operations as well as for periodic financial statements in accordance with HGB and IFRS.
• Transformation:You actively drive the digitalization and automation of accounting processes, lead projects, and support S/4HANA rollouts.
• Interfaces & Stakeholder Management: In close collaboration with IT, Tax, Purchasing, and Controlling, you act as a key user for your processes and as the main point of contact for internal and external auditors.

Qualifications

• Qualification: Degree in business administration with a focus on accounting or a comparable qualification.
• Core Competency: Strong expertise in accounts payable accounting as well as a solid understanding of accounts receivable processes.
• Leadership Skills: Proven experience in team leadership, with an appreciative, motivating, and hands-on leadership style.
• Change Management: You enjoy driving transformation and are able to inspire others to embrace change.
• Experience working in Shared Service organizations within global corporate structures.
• SAP: Very good knowledge of SAP S/4HANA (FI, CO, MM) and Concur.
• Travel & Languages: Very good German (min. C1) and English (min. B2) skills, along with a willingness to undertake occasional business travel.

The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.