Excellent opportunity for a Senior German Speaking Accounts Receivable Analyst to join our client, a multinational pharmaceutical company with a Shared Services Centre in Cherrywood Business Park.
The role -
1. As part of region north’s management team, drive analyst’s performance through reviews, trainings, and feedback
2. Second manager and represent team in meetings with stakeholders
3. Participate in Team’s strategy setting and CI planning
4. Lead projects linked to OTC future and Team objectives
5. Ownership of the debtors’ schedule with a clear understanding of client payment terms and likely payment dates to optimise the Accounts Receivable portfolio
6. Conduct credit checks on all customers, establish and manage limits
7. Managing the credit control function by liaising with clients and customer service to resolve payment queries and invoice disputes in a timely manner
8. Managing the cash application, ensure all cash receipts are applied properly by the cash app team
9. Maintaining and strengthen client relationships
10. Reporting on aged debtors
11. Reconciling the sales ledger
12. Providing any necessary support schedules and reconciliations for the month end reviews
13. Perform day to day shared services credit and collections functions within the defined process standards working across captive and outsourced teams
14. Drive cash collections for the portfolio under management, review analyst’s performance
15. Provide training and give feedback to team members
16. Represent Team in stakeholders meetings
17. Meet the agreed performance measures, KPIs, and goal setting processes
18. Prepare and review monthly performance reports
19. Ensure that the customer payments are adequately allocated
20. Assist management in performing, facilitating, and reviewing day to day credit and collections activity within the centre and the 3rd party provider
21. Have a high level of understanding of the commercial operation
22. Standardise the credit and collections processes and services to the regional shared service organization,
23. Evaluate best practices with global peers and develop improvement suggestions
24. Assist management in developing and reviewing performance results for credit and accounts receivable processes in the region
25. Ensure integrity of internal controls, in partnership with the compliance team,
26. Support internal and external audit queries
27. Provide oversight and support for responses to and remediation of audit findings, across internal and 3rd party outsource service providers, as required
Requirements -
28. Bachelor’s degree in business administration or Professional credit management qualification highly preferred. Relevant work experience advantageous or equivalent combination of education and work experience;
29. 2-3+ years of international credit experience inclusive of all aspects of credit management;
30. Fluent in English and German
31. Knowledge and understanding of overall OTC processes;
32. Experience in reading and analysing customer financial statements;
33. Prior recent experience working in a captive SSC environment preferred;
34. Experience with 3rd party outsource providers preferred;
35. Additional SAP ERP experience is a plus.
Job Terms -
36. Initial 11 month temp contract (may be extended / go perm)
37. Generous salary for the right candidate
38. Flexibility re start / finish times
39. Luas goes direct to site
40. Hybrid working option available after training period