Customer Payments Administrator
Join us in enabling seamless financial operations across EMEA. Ready to ensure accuracy and drive automation in customer payments?
Want to make a real impact behind the scenes of business success? Apply now and grow with Essity.
About the Role
This role sits within our Finance organization in Lisbon and plays a key part in ensuring efficient, accurate, and timely processing of customer payments across the EMEA region. You will manage incoming payments, allocate them correctly, and contribute to maximizing automation and touchless processing.
Working in a collaborative and matrix environment, you will interact with internal stakeholders and support continuous improvement initiatives while ensuring compliance with accounting standards and Essity policies.
What You Will Do
Customer Payment Processing: Manage and allocate incoming customer payments accurately and efficiently to the appropriate accounts
Financial Posting: Classify, code, and record financial transactions in customer accounts and general ledger systems
Automation Management: Support and maintain touchless payment automation processes to improve efficiency
Reconciliation: Review balance statements and financial institution reports to ensure data accuracy
Transaction Verification: Process accounts payable/receivable transactions, including bank deposits and related activities
Compliance & Quality: Perform quality checks and ensure delivery aligned with accounting standards, internal controls, and SLAs
Stakeholder Support: Respond to queries from internal stakeholders and escalate issues while contributing to continuous improvement initiatives
Who You Are
Completed bachelor’s degree in finance or a related field
Experience in a similar accounting or finance administration role
Experience with SAP (R/3 or S/4), EBS Workbench, and Office 365 is highly appreciated
Strong communication, collaboration, adaptability, and problem-solving skills with the ability to work efficiently in a matrix organization and deliver with quality and speed
Fluent English required
- All resumes should be submitted in English
What We Can Offer You
Our purpose, Breaking Barriers to Well-being, provides meaning to everything we do. Join us to improve well-being for people and drive positive change for society and the environment. At Essity, you'll feel valued, empowered to grow, and challenged to achieve business results in a collaborative and open atmosphere.
Innovate for Good | Excel Together | Be You with Us
More About Lisbon
This position is based in Lisbon with a hybrid working model, offering flexibility while staying connected to our collaborative office environment. Lisbon provides a vibrant international setting, combining innovation, culture, and quality of life.
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04 jun. 2026
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Essity - a globally leading hygiene and health company. Our expertise in hygiene and health began with the acquisition of the Swedish company Mölnlycke in 1975, through which our roots stretch back to 1849. Today, our sustainable innovations from globally trusted brands, designed for everybody and every body, care for the well-being of 1 billion people in 150 countries every day.
Working at Essity is not just a career but a chance to make the world healthier, safer, and more hygienic. Our barrier breakers innovate for good and contribute to shaping a sustainable future. At Essity, every career is as unique as the individual. We empower employees to excel together and reach their full potential in a winning culture motivated by a powerful purpose. We provide a sustainable work-life based on flexibility for both employees and employers. At Essity, we are committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in everything we do. It is the key to our success in creating an inclusive, collaborative, and caring company culture where you can be you with us. Our purpose of Breaking Barriers to Well-being, is to enable customers and consumers to lead fuller lives at all stages of life.
Our leading global brands TENA and Tork, and other strong brands such as Actimove, Cutimed, JOBST, Knix, Leukoplast, Libero, Libresse, Lotus, Modibodi, Nosotras, Saba, Tempo, TOM Organic and Zewa. In 2024, Essity had net sales of approximately SEK 146bn (EUR 13bn) and employed 36,000 people. The company’s headquarters is located in Stockholm, Sweden and Essity is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.If you want to join a company where dedication to people is powered by innovation, welcome to Essity!
