Accounting Assistant

Location: Paço de Arcos - Q45, Portugal

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Thales Portugal is a Competence Centre of the Thales Group, whose mission is to integrate and develop solutions and products for Thales projects worldwide. Having around 220 specialized human resources Thales Portugal has a strong capability to design, develop, and deploy systems and services efficiently in the Defence, Security (Critical Information Systems, Critical Infrastructure and Banking) and Transportation markets.

Thales in Portugal
is part of an internationally leading technology group in the defence and security, aerospace as well as digital identity and security markets.

Thales Business Support Services
(TBSS) acts as a Shared Service Center for Thales Group by serving a number of countries for various key tasks associated to finance and accounting processes. This business support services center of excellence drives innovation within our internal business processes, cutting through complexity and supporting our external leadership in digitalization.

Your mission:

• Manage the Accounts Receivable Ledger, ensuring accuracy and timely updates.
• Contact customers with outstanding invoices via email in a professional manner.
• Handle and resolve internal and external disputes related to billing or payments.
• Perform customer account reconciliations and identify discrepancies.
• Prepare monthly reports and provide status updates on 60+ debtors.

We are looking forward to:

• Experience or knowledge of the O2C / Order-to-Cash cycle (preferred).
• Strong written communication skills in English (other languages are a plus).
• Good analytical skills and attention to detail in financial tasks.
• Proficiency in digital tools and Excel.
• Ability to work in a dynamic, multicultural, and fast-paced environment.

The Group invests more than €4 billion per year in Research & Development in key areas, particularly for critical environments, such as Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity, quantum and cloud technologies.

In 2024, the Group generated
sales of €20.6 billion.
For our more than 83,000 employees in 68 countries we open up visionary perspectives, realise individual career paths and enable creative freedom. This is achieved with courage, versatility and the firm intention to make the demanding challenges of our time safer and more inclusive. With our sustainable value-focused management we support diversity actively.

Say HI* – Your journey to us

At times of change our international teams are ready to meet the complexity of today with the industry-leading technologies of tomorrow. Will you be part of it? Your contact Tiago Vital is looking forward to your online application on our Career portal.

Cláudia Gaio – Talent Acquisition Partner

• Human Intelligence

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here, apply now