How is accounts payable different to accounts receivable?
Accounts payable is the opposite – it’s working with vendors rather than working with clients. For example, we order airplane parts, ground-handling services and fuel. We have to make sure that the invoices are paid on time. I think accounts payable is sometimes more challenging, because I’m the only one in the department. I’m busy the whole day. What do you like most about your job? The atmosphere. It’s really what keeps people here. You have also to be here sometimes ten hours a day, more than at home, so it’s important to enjoy what you do. Will your job change due to the merger between SN Brussels Airlines and Virgin Express? I currently work two or three days a week at the SN Brussels Airlines building and from October or November we will probably be in the same building. They have a group of five people in accounts payable, but they also have more airplanes. They work with SAP accounting system, so we switched over to that from Navision in January, which was difficult at first, b
