Job description
Role Overview
Billing Analyst & Collection Specialist at Air Liquide, based in Saudi Arabia and serving Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) entities.
Role Purpose
Enhance organizational liquidity and mitigate financial exposure by streamlining billing workflows, maintaining low Days Sales Outstanding (DSO), and ensuring accounts receivable accuracy through proactive reporting and analytical oversight. Operate at the center of finance, customer service, and data analytics to secure accurate and punctual payments while fostering positive client relations.
Key Responsibilities
Billing & Invoicing Process
- Prepare invoices at month-end cut-off for Saudi and other GCC entities.
- Manage all contracts in Saudi and other GCC entities.
- Comply with all required documents to meet customer requirements for invoice approval.
- Provide all invoice inputs through the company's ERP (Microsoft Dynamics Navision) and Large Industries Billing System (LIBS) to ensure correct and timely invoice generation per agreed billing protocols in each contract.
Billing & Collection Administration
- Provide complete sets of invoice supporting documents by routinely gathering additional required documentation requested by each customer for upload to customer portals on time.
- Liaise with internal stakeholders to ensure timely updates of expiring or about-to-expire Purchase Orders (PO).
- Update Accounts Receivable (AR) tracking lists and other dashboards by periodically reviewing open PO status and expected receivables every month-end immediately after closing.
- Report collections and overdue amounts.
Billing Compliance
- Monitor all billing-related permits and licenses to ensure ongoing validity by liaising with internal and external stakeholders and triggering early renewal communication to avoid collection interruption.
- Ensure updates of contract pricing indices in the company's invoicing tools (ERP, LIBS, Excel) when contractual terms change.
- Coordinate with the commercial team to ensure full internal and external alignment.
- Ensure all authorities' requirements are fulfilled in all invoices and that customer requirements are considered.
- Contribute to the financial auditing process covering sales and receivables topics within the GCC.
Operations Controlling, Dashboards & Energy Contribution Calculation
- Monitor H2, steam, and air gas offtake to customers and pipelines through CSV file review and perform sanity checks against SCADA to update customer dashboards.
- Record reliability and availability events and calculate H2 sales and volume impact per event.
- Record and monitor unmet company requirements to customers to ensure contract compliance.
- Update and calculate Energy Contribution for all sites during closings, targets, and reforecasts.
- Update sales figures in ERP and IRIS.
- Provide support for management ad hoc requests and simulations.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor degree in Accounting, Finance, Management, or Economics.
- 5+ years of experience.
- Experience in a multinational company is desirable, preferably in the Oil and Gas industry.
- Experience in Global Business Services is a plus.
Skills & Competencies
- English language proficiency; Arabic is a plus.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics Navision, Google Applications, and IRIS.
- Attention to detail, high accuracy, and quality orientation.
- Conflict management skills.
- High level of transversal and vertical communication skills.
Additional Information
Air Liquide is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of employees, customers, patients, community stakeholders, and cultures across the world. The company welcomes and considers applications from all qualified applicants regardless of background.