Accounts Receivable Analyst (temporary position - 6 months)

at  Publicis ReSources Global

Job Description

Qualifications

• Advanced studies or Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Field of Study - Finance, accounting, business, or other related fields’ Experience.
• Advanced English (oral and written skills).
• Intermediate Excel skills.
• Knowledge of financial analysis and accounting rules.
• 1 year experience in similar positions

• Responsible for collection of past due client invoices and weekly reporting of collection status to management while ensuring an optimal customer experience.
• Minimize Days Sale over (DSO), account balances over 90 days+ past due while increasing percent current. Reconcile accounts to ensure credit and payments on account are at a minimum.
• Prepares statistical report on aged accounts and applies a consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Investigate historical data for each debt or bill to understand the billing schemes and negotiations in place with the clients and how they affect her/his ability to collect receivables.
• Design and monitor special payment plans as needed for clients that are past due.
• Provide reporting and analysis to Collections manager and Designs and analyze various payment scenarios.
• Partners with Supervisor to outline necessary actions and strategies for debt repayment. Works within the queue in order to ensure all follow-ups are met on a daily basis.
• Work closely with the brands and account management teams to quickly resolve collection issues. Identify issues that require further research and hand these issues off to resolvers for resolution.
• Maintains familiarity with current policies, procedures, and systems supporting these functions.
• Partners with other Divisions and departments to improve bad debt/accounts receivable collection, fraud management, credit screening.
• Actively document collection status, which include promise to pay and customer payment issues within the comment section of aging.
• Accountable for reducing delinquency for assigned accounts. Actively monitor and document customers who become severely delinquent.
• Notify management of any bad debt, write off or uncollectable balances.
• Prepares and present AD hoc reporting.
• Promote strong collaborative relationships between collection team and other internal teams such as billing, brand account finance teams, and account management teams.

Qualifications

• Advanced studies or Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Field of Study - Finance, accounting, business, or other related fields’ Experience.
• Advanced English (oral and written skills).
• Intermediate Excel skills.
• Knowledge of financial analysis and accounting rules.
• 1 year experience in similar positions.