AR/AP Accountant

AP/AR Accountant  

Are you ready to step into a financial career that truly challenges and fulfills you? Then join our dynamic finance team at Legend Biotech in Ghent as an AP/AR Accountantt. In this position, you will handle Accounts Payable and Receivable, ensuring precision in invoicing and effective cash flow management. 

 

What can you expect? 

In this role you can expect to engage in various challenging and rewarding financial tasks. Here’s what your day-to-day will look like: 

 

• Invoice Management: You process and manage both incoming and outgoing invoices, ensuring accuracy and adherence to financial policies. This includes vouchering against purchase orders, coding, and booking non-PO invoices. 
• Account Reconciliation: You monitor and reconcile supplier accounts and AR aging balances regularly to maintain up-to-date records and ensure all payments are accounted for and processed timely. 
• Financial Reporting: You support the preparation of VAT filings and provide essential documents and information to external auditors and regulatory bodies as needed. 
• Process Optimization: You work closely with the Finance and IT department to help set up suppliers on EDI, evaluate, and implement process improvements, including automation opportunities to enhance efficiency. 
• Cross-functional Collaboration: You work closely with various internal teams in Belgium, Ireland and the USA, including the local business teams, Accounting, PTP team, and Treasury, to resolve issues and improve the overall financial process. 

 

This role is designed to not only keep our financial wheels turning but also to optimize and streamline our processes for better efficiency and accuracy. 

 

Who are we looking for? 

For this role we have some requirements in mind but more important than the list below is your drive, enthusiasm, and the collaborative spirit you will bring to our team.  

 

Education: 

• You have a bachelor’s degree and strong interest in accounting.  

 
Experience: 

• You have at least 2 years of experience in AP/AR operations.  

 
Languages: 

• You are proficient in Dutch and English, with strong oral and written communications skills 

 

Strengths: 

• You are an analytical and critical thinker with a strong problem-solving mindset. 
• Your collaborative spirit and willingness to help others define your way of working.  
• You love to take initiative and to build new relationships across different business functions and departments. 
• You are punctual and keep records proactively. 

 
Expertise: 

• You have experience working with global ERP systems such as e.g. SAP. You can also work smoothly with Excel.  
• You have knowledge of PTP processes and an eye for process improvement.  

 

What do we offer?  

• A meaningful job in a mission-driven company with a strong and connecting company culture  
• A supportive and innovative work environment, where learning and personal development are encouraged and valued. 
• The opportunity to work with people from all over the globe. We are fully committed to diversity and inclusion, and we value every voice.  
• An indefinite contract and an attractive salary complemented by a nice package of fringe benefits such as additional legal vacation days, meal vouchers, group and hospitalization insurance, annually double vacation pay, an end of year bonus and a performance bonus, reflecting our appreciation for your dedication and hard work.  
• A lot of fun and informal events.  

About Legend Biotech  
Legend Biotech is a global biotechnology company developing, manufacturing, and commercializing innovative and life-saving cell therapies in the fight against diseases that are considered intractable and incurable, including cancer. 

Since our establishment in 2014 in Somerset, New Jersey, we have grown into a company of more than 1,800 employees spread across six manufacturing units worldwide. Two of these are in Ghent: Obelisc (Technologie Park, Zwijnaarde) and Tech Lane (Eilandje Zwijnaarde) 

In Ghent, Legend Biotech focuses on producing its advanced CAR-T therapy for the treatment of multiple myeloma, a common but difficult-to-treat blood cancer, and on bringing this live-saving therapy to patients in Europe and far beyond.  

Creating hope and new opportunities for patients and contributing to a future where all cancers are curable is what everyone drives here at Legend Biotech, regardless of their role or function.  

Apply now and join us in our mission to transform the world of oncology and medicine, one patient at a time.