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Job Function:

Finance

Job Sub Function:

AP/AR

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Bogotá, Distrito Capital, Colombia

Job Description:

Position Description:

Responsible for all activities related to the comprehensive process of the accounts receivables function such as collection activities, customer accounts reconciliation, payment remittance consecution with customers, payment integration, and disputes resolution.

 

Main activities: 

• Manage the accounts receivables under your responsibility.
• Manage payment agreements with customers ensuring the adequate flow of orders, safeguarding the profitability of the company.
• Connect with customers to build positive long-term relationships. Support and connect with internal Stakeholders (Deliver, Commercial areas, Finance, Compliance, Customer Service).
• Assure the reconciliation and confirmation of the accounts receivables.
• Get the payment remittance documentation and assure the payment integration into the system, aligned with the corporate schedule defined for the cash application process.
• Prevent and detect not collectable account risk on time, give visibility to the business and prepare action plans to reduce the detected risk. Following the internal escalation procedures timely.
• Identify and report dispute cases in the system to be solved by the responsible areas.
• Assure the audit controls related and support the internal and external audit requirements.
• Assist with special projects as needed.

 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree on Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, Economy, or other Business-related area.
• Previous experience in accounts receivables, Credit & Cash Application and/or AR Accounting.
• Previous experience in the pharmaceutical industry (Is a Plus).
• Invoice to cash process and financial analysis knowledge, including policies and procedures.

 

Years of Experience:

• Requires 2-3 Years’ Work Experience.

 

Required knowledge:

• Accounts receivables, credit, and cash application Knowledge.
• Advanced knowledge in excel.
• Accounting knowledge and reconciliation accounts.
• AR and FI SAP modules, Tableau knowledge (Is desirable).
• Microsoft Office tools management.

Required skills:

• Connect.
• Negotiation.
• Good relationship-building
• Being able to work with internal and external stakeholders in LATAM countries with shared and divergent interests.
• Good communication skills: being able to teamwork, interface, and influence at several levels of the organization, cross-sector, cross-functionally, and regionally are desirable.
• Presentation skills.

 

Language:

English upper intermediate level is required.

 

Location of the role:

Bogotá, Colombia.

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Accounting, Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Analytical Reasoning, Audit Management, Business Behavior, Communication, Detail-Oriented, Execution Focus, Financial Analysis, Financial Recordkeeping, Financial Reports, Financial Risk Management (FRM), Multi Currency Accounting, Numerically Savvy, Process Optimization, Process Oriented