Newly
opened financial shared service centre, with European headquarters in Barcelona.

• The job holder is responsible for the collections of the
  receivable for an assigned portfolio of customers from a specific
  country and for support with performance reporting and reconciliations.
• As the Order to Cash team develops there will be requirements to
  perform some activities over a range of countries to ensure processes
  remain efficient, although responsibility for one country will remain.

For the
countries within the country grouping:

• Perform credit management activities achieving DSO targets
  through cash collection
• Monitor and follow-up of billing issues on customer accounts
• Preparing reminder letters / faxes / e-mails and despatching as
  prompted by the accounting system (a collections management system may
  be implemented in due course which will help manage this process)
• Establish and maintain excellent business relationship with local
  regions to ensure smooth communication of queries and issues 
• Liaise with the sales force with regard to orders and guidance on
  financial policies
• Using credit insurance systems and liaising with credit insurance
  agencies as required for credit limit analysis, set-up and maintenance
• Responsible for the hand-over of delinquent accounts to the
  credit insurance agency and follow-up trough the recovery
• Liaising with countries and customers where appropriate to
  resolve incoming queries.
• Customer accounting, including reconciliation of the sales ledger
  account, processing of bad debt write-offs
• Supporting reporting (such as days sales outstanding, bad debt
  reserve calculation, write-offs etc. with guidance from the team lead)
• Maintaining and improving data quality and integrity,
  continuously striving to reduce and eliminate errors

•Qualifications

- Native Spanish + high level of English

- 3 or 4-year (BS or equivalent)
Accounting or Finance Degree desired

•Experience

Accounting
experience in AR area (2-3 years) including:

·        
Invoice and receipt processing

·        
Customer debit/credit notes

·        
Customer account reconciliations

·        
AR reconciliations

Month end/year end reporting

•Skills

·      
Strong team player.  Must enjoy working alongside others in a
team based environment.

·      
Excellent communication
skills 

·      
High level of analytic ability

·      
Customer service and performance
focused approach.

·                    
Comfortable working with processes
and procedures, and able to be flexible with changing requirements during
set-up period

·      
Commitment, positive attitude

·      
Attention to detail, problem
solving and accuracy in processing invoices

·      
Ability to work under pressure to
meet deadlines

·      
Time flexibility {especially in
the period of month/year-end closing}