Regional Senior / Associate, Account Receivable (Cross Border, Finance Operations)
Job Summary
Job Description
The Cross Border Team within Business Operations focuses on budget items below direct costs, including operating expenses, central costs, and EBIT. This Finance Operations role aims to provide visibility of Accounts Receivable (AR) collections for the business unit. The Senior Associate will collaborate with various stakeholders, including local finance and operations teams, to resolve shipper disputes and ensure timely AR collection. Responsibilities include aligning new finance flows across countries, improving finance operations for streamlined processes, preparing month-end billing files, and monitoring aged receivables. The role also involves guiding junior team members on daily tasks and AR collections, as well as leading finance process improvement projects. This position is crucial for maintaining effective, efficient, and accurate business and financial management controls and operations.
Must have:
- Timely collection of aged receivables
- Adherence to COD offset processes
- Monitor shipper payment receipts
- Lead meetings with local finance
- Guide junior team members
- Align intercompany finance/billing
- Standardize billing flows
- Improve existing finance flows
- Maintain finance working instructions
- Maintain customer SOPs
- Prepare month-end billing
- Manage vendor payments
- Prepare accurate customer billings
- Bachelor's Degree in Accountancy/Finance
- 1-4 years of relevant experience
- Detail-oriented
- Effective communication skills
- Experience with multi-stakeholder projects
- Exposure to cross-geography teams
4 skills required
Job Details
The Cross Border Team is split into 3 main teams, Commercial, Logistics and Business Operations.
This role lies within the Business operations Vertical in the Cross Border team. Business Operations focuses on budget items below direct costs, including operating expense, central costs and EBIT.
The Cross Border Finance Operations function exists for the administration and execution of finance processes, transactions and
controls inter and intra business units and departments.
The role exists with a main objective of providing visibility of AR collections for the business unit. The Finance Operations Senior
Associate is expected to work with various stakeholders from local finance to operation teams to ensure that shippers’ disputes are
resolved and AR is collected timely. You would also be assisting with regards to alignment of new finance flows across the different
countries, finance operation improvement to streamline existing processes, preparation of month end billing files and monitoring of
Aged Receivables. The Senior Associate is expected to guide junior members of the team in the execution of BAU tasks, AR
collections and is responsible for finance process improvement projects under their care. The outputs of this position play a vital
role in ensuring that our business and financial management controls and operations are effective, efficient and accurate.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for ensuring timely collections of aged receivables
- Responsible for ensuring adherence to COD offset processes by local finance.
- Monitor shipper payment receipts to determine poor paymasters
- Take lead in meetings with local finances with regards to AR processes and alignment matters
- Provide guidance to junior members of the team in the execution of BAU tasks
- Assist with the structuring of intercompany finance and billing flows for cross border related deals.
- Assist with the standardization and categorization of existing billing flows
- Assist with the improvement of existing finance flows
- Documentation and regular maintenance/ update of internal finance working instructions.
- Documentation and regular maintenance/ update of finance processes for customer facing SOPs.
- Preparation of month end billing for cross border related revenue billings.
- Responsible for the communication flow and accounting instructions with local finance for cross border related vendor invoices.
- Ensuring that vendors are paid within credit terms
- Timely and accurate preparation of customer billings
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accountancy or Finance
- 1 - 4 years of relevant working experience in an Accounting or Finance related function
- Detail oriented
- Confident and effective communication skills, both written and oral
- Demonstrated experience in executing complex multi-stakeholder commercial projects
- Exposure to working across geographies, teams and individuals of different culture
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