Credit and Collections Support Specialist-Japanese

Job Title

Credit and Collections Support Specialist-Japanese

Job Description

As Credit and Collections Support Specialist you will join Philips’ Accounting Operations team. On daily basis you will have a chance to take an active role in helping to form our new centralized cash applications team, and the accounting and reconciliation activities that relate. This work all supports our existing team of Collections Specialists who are responsible for cash collections with a defined group of major/key customer accounts, at Philips’ GCR by maintaining excellent relationships with our customers, internal finance leadership, and cross-functional business partners.

Your role:

• Daily retrieval of bank activity (ACH, wire, EBAD and L/C) and ERP receipt activity and post payments to customer accounts
• Daily and monthly reconciliations against monthly bank statements – identifying and resolving reconciliation items on customer accounts
• Process offsets to clear matched debts and credits on customer accounts
• Manage the Unapplied Cash report and work with Collections to identify solutions to unreconciled cash items
• Providing indirect leadership to cash applications, internal finance leadership and cross-functional business partners related to cash management best practices
• Support and contribute to accounts receivable accounting lean process improvements

You're the right fit if:

• College graduate or Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance or Accounting professional equivalent
• Ability to communicate, read and write English; Fluent in English or Japanese considered a plus
• Prior Cash Applications/AR experience in a high volume environment is considered a plus
• Proficient in MS Excel
• Customer service focus
• Determination to achieve excellent results

About Philips

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About Us

At Philips, we believe that every human matters. As a global health-tech leader, we focus on improving people’s health and wellbeing through meaningful innovation. The people who work here share our passion and are motivated to bring this purpose to life.

For more than 130 years, we have been creating technologies and innovations that improve people's lives and support healthcare practitioners. Headquartered in the Netherlands and operating in more than 100 countries globally, we focus our advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights on Precision Diagnosis, Image Guided Therapy, Enterprise Informatics, Monitoring/ Connected Care, Sleep & Respiratory Care and Personal Health.

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