Accounts Receivable Specialist

The purpose of the role

As an Accounts Receivable Specialist, you will play a crucial role in the finance department, ensuring the accurate and efficient management of financial transactions related to the account receivables in Europe. 

You will be responsible for issuing invoices, applying payments, and liaising with sales to ensure prompt payment while maintaining good customers relations and achieving company standards for results. 

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain customer accounts, including invoicing, credit checks, and credit limit monitoring.
• Prepare and distribute invoices accurately and in a timely manner.
• Monitor and track customer payments, follow up on overdue accounts, and resolve payment discrepancies.
• Reconcile accounts receivable on a regular basis to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Work closely with the business development team/CS and Warehouse/Logistics to resolve billing and payment-related issues.
• Generate and analyze ageing reports and provide recommendations to the Business Development team and Finance Business Partners for bad debt reserves.
• Timely application of all client payments received.
• Acquire client remittances to ensure accurate and timely application.
• Investigate older items on account, identify and note cause.
• Identify clients with consistent payment issues and work with both client and management to resolve them.
• Collaborate and deal with External Auditors attending external audit requests.
• Manage daily Sales Orders, blocking and unblocking requests.
• Assist with various reports/ Special projects as needed

Requirements

• Knowledge and previous experience in account receivable day-to-day management
• Knowledge of general accounting and general bookeeping procedures
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Fluent English language skills are required
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Process driven
• Collaborative and team player
• Highly organised with the ability to prioritise
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time

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