Senior Accounts Receivable Finance Specialist
Essentials
Job title: Senior Accounts Receivable Finance Specialist
Location: Bucharest, Hybrid
Type: employment contract
Offer
Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
Competitive compensation and benefits package
Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users
Client
Our client is a new established Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business.
The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all our client brands. As part of our client’s Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world’s leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through six-primary consumer facing brands.
Role
As a Senior Accounts Receivable Finance Specialist, you will be working on a global portfolio of accounts to ensure that the Billing, Accounts receivable & Legal Collections operational ad hoc tasks are performed daily by closing Zendesk & Jira tickets while bringing initiatives to improve the activities/processes.
The Senior Accounts Receivable Finance Specialist, will reconcile accounts, issue manual invoices, post payments and update customer records in the Accounting/Reporting systems and perform Cash application for high volume of receipts.
You are responsible to Investigate and resolve business partner inquiries to ensure the efficient payment allocation (including Direct Debit), inbound management, and ad-hoc business requests to accommodate for bulk / complex payment clearances.
Among other tasks is the ability to produce accounts receivable/Billing/ Legal Collections overview and initiative dashboards and prepare management reports including open receivables, unapplied cash and many ad hoc projects related to the global revenue operations department.
The Senior Accounts Receivable Finance Specialist,has a good level of knowledge and expertise in regards to the Account receivable/Billing & Legal Collections process and is able to analyze it with a critical mindset in order to identify gaps and opportunities to improve it and make it more efficient, scalable and reduce manual workload. Senior Accounts Receivable Finance Specialist responsibilities require a good level of technical expertise in order to be able to effectively work both with internal and external stakeholders and ensure that core operations are effectively performed and system and operational improvements are determined and achieved.
Responsibilities
Post all incoming cash payments from customers (direct debit , bank transfer payments and Payment Service Providers ) and ensure accurate and timely allocation adhering to our SLAs, rectifying any allocations or process issues that may occur.
Address any system, operational and external issues as and when they occur owning the end to end process
Timely allocate the payments coming for Payment Service Providers Globally and reconcile the dedicated GL
Set up and maintain appropriate records and files concerning customer remittance and accounts receivable posting transactions, perform the GL reconciliations.
Organize and update the training plan and also the onboarding plan for new joiners within the team
Act as an operational support mechanism for the AR Team Leader ; Support the TL/Manager to oversee the daily core activities and procedures , provide coaching and assist on individual and collective team projects within the team .Identify the knowledge gap and skill up AR .Share the knowledge and provide training to improve the performance .Assist the coaching team members over process improvement.
Supports and collaborates with the members of the Transformation Team /Opex team regarding the continuous improvement initiatives /projects
Ensure standard processes are adhered ,documented and updated in accordance with the compliance standards and guidelines and driven by the business need/change
Process sub-team operations:
- Handling tickets from multiple OTC teams
- Reporting
- Legal collection tasks
- Ad hoc O2C tasks
Good contact with banks, third party providers and correspondence with internal stakeholders at all levels
Requirements
• Bachelor degree in Finance or related field
3-5 years similar working experience
SAP Fica knowledge, MS office, Google Chrome
Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken in English;
Team and service oriented approach
Experience with process improvement or automation
Accurate with good attention to detail
Ability to work independently, with high self-motivation and discipline;
Should be persistent and have sense of urgency
Creative thinker
Full ownership, accountability & proactiveness
Strong organizational and prioritization skills;
Internationally focused and an awareness of different cultures.
Project Management and/or process mapping
Apply today
If you meet the minimum requirements and are interested in applying for this position, please send your details to careers@key-talents.com with “Senior Accounts Receivable Finance Specialist”, in the subject line.