JOB VACANCY

Accounts Receivable Team 

Job Background

The Finance team in Cork manages all accounting activities for Apples extensive business in Europe. This growing team, which numbers approximately 200 Finance professionals supports more than 40 legal entities in 20 countries across the region.

The team forms part of a dynamic global organization, aligned by process tracks which are managed locally, but with a strong alignment to global process ownership.

The daily core responsibilities of the Accounts Receivable Lead will be ensuring all customer payments due are received and matched correctly on receipt, resolving customer financial queries, documenting and actioning accordingly where payment is not received. This will involve close interaction with the European Credit Team, Order Management and Logistics.

We are expanding the suite of services provided to our business partners and are adding capacity to our shared service centre. As part of this expansion the Accounts Receivable Lead will be required to support the growth of the collections function through the day to day operational activities along with project work, metrics and reporting .

The successful candidate will become a member of the wider Finance team with regional interactions. This is a key role in a dynamic environment with the potential for the role to develop further with additional responsibilities in line with business requirements.

Key Tasks

• Proactive Customer Management to prevent accounts from becoming overdue
• Address AR issues and dealing with escalations
• Working with the team to meet agreed SLAs and targets covering collections for additional regions as required
• Receive and give inputs to initiate legal and insurance actions
• Provide support to the Credit and Cash Applications Teams as required
• Compiling metrics and data analysis in support of the Team
• Metrics reporting & process improvements
• Month end activities
• Ensuring all activities are completed in accordance with Sarbanes Oxley
• Excellent customer services to both external & internal customers ie. Credit Managers, Credit Team, Cash Apps team, Logistics and Order Management

Requirements:

• Excellent communication, organizational & interpersonal skills
• Qualified Accountant with strong business partnering focus or equivalent qualification
• 3-5 years AR experience
• Experience in a fast paced, dynamic Business to Business environment preferred
• Self Starter, who is motivated, flexible and capable of working on own initiative
• People Management Experience an advantage
• Fluency in a European Language an advantage

If you are interested in this position please send your CV to Laura Carroll, Recruiter, Apple

http://appleeu.avature.net/EUJobBoardPortal?source=Irishjobs.ie&jobId=424