Senior Accounts Receivable Representative - Hampshire, United Kingdom - CooperVision

CooperVision
CooperVision
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Hampshire, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Senior Accounts Receivable Representative

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JOB TITLE - Senior Accounts Receivable Administrator


DEPARTMENT - Finance


LOCATION - Brunel Way, Fareham


WORKING HOURS hours


A brighter future awaits you


At CooperVision, we create brighter futures for our customers and employees alike, striving to make a difference and go further.

You'll be welcomed into a growing global business with a presence in over 40 countries.

This establishes an incredible opportunity for you to get involved in international collaborations across Europe, as well as the chance to report into experienced industry leaders, furthering your expertise and creating a positive impact on both our business and your career.


What is important to us
Recruiting, retaining, and promoting a diverse mix of employees is core to our success. It helps bring different perspectives, diverse conversations, and new ideas to the table, all of which are incredibly valuable.


At CooperVision we celebrate, not only our company success, but we celebrate who we all are individually, and we embrace diversity.

We support and we encourage you to bring your full self and not just part of you. We are committed to each individual and we look forward to a Brighter Future together.


What will you be doing:


The Senior Accounts Receivable Administrator is primarily responsible for daily cash postings and allocations, bank and general ledger reconciliations, cash forecasting, and assisting with month end close.

Also, you'll be able to assist in credit control, manage your own ledger, making and receiving calls and taking customer payments over the phone as well as reconciling accounts.


Finance Shared Services

  • Adopt a Subject Mater Expert responsibly within the Accounts Receivable team, as part of the Order-ToCash workstream.
  • Have proactive mindset, ensuring the follow through and completion of tasks.
  • Produce reports including but not limited to key metrics to measure KPIs for the team, dashboards to then report to the Accounts Receivable Manager.
  • Analyse customer data using software such as Cognos and Tableau.
  • Accurately posting into the ERP system payments received and allocating against the relevant invoices and / or credit notes daily to ensure that reported account balances are accurate, correctly aged (according to agreed or contractual payment terms) and fairly stated.
  • Responding to and satisfactorily resolving within agreed timescales external (Customer) and internal (Customer Services, Commercial / Sales etc.) queries relating but not limited to account balances, overdue debt and copies of invoices or credit notes.
  • Generating and distributing customer statements monthly or as requested and the appropriate Dunning letters in respect of overdue debt.
  • Assisting the Accounts Receivable Manager and / or Supervisor in ensuring that period end close requirements are completed accurately and in accordance with the agreed close timelines. This will include but is not limited to, providing relevant information for the calculation of appropriate provisions for potential bad debts and the completion of Balance Sheet reconciliations and journals.
  • Ensuring that all company policies and procedures are adhered to including but not limited to, Approval Matrix, TCC and / or CooperVision accounting or operational policies.
  • Performing any other duties as requested by the Accounts Receivable Manager and / or Supervisor.
  • Due to workload within the team and language abilities, your responsibilities may flex towards specific areas of the role

Process Optimisation / Continuous Improvement

  • Be proactive with raising towards the continuous improvement of existing Accounts Receivable processes, structures, and systems.
  • Support the implementation of enabling technologies, e.g. automation and workflow approval, initiatives.

What skills and experience should you have?


We're looking for an experienced accounts administrator who is able to operate in a dynamic and changing environment, manage multiple deadlines, display a high level of professionalism and organisational skills, maintain confidentiality as necessary and have strong verbal and written communication skills whilst supporting the principles of a Shared Service Centre by understanding the needs of the customer, constantly aiming to exceed customer expectations as well as adopting a continuous improvement approach.


Other skills would include:

  • Intermediate knowledge of MS Office including the use of pivot tables, vlookups in Excel.
  • Knowledge of ERP systems (Oracle R12, SAP)
  • Knowledge and understanding of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) (desirable, not essential)

CooperVision values


Our four values define and underpin our unique culture; we are _dedicated_, we are _inventive_, we are _friendly_, and we are _partners_.

Becoming part of the CooperVision family means joining a friendly team that's open, flexible, a
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