Accounts Receivable Officer

at  Jacobs Douwe Egberts

Accounts Receivable Officer
Finance
North Sydney
Full-time
Australia
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced and proactive Accounts Receivable Officer, or as we like to call you an AR Control Specialist, to manage the accounts receivable process for our Out of Home accounts. You will be responsible for negotiations, aged debt collections, and managing a high level of invoices meticulously, with the ability to problem solve creatively. This is a full-time position based in our North Sydney head office working Monday to Friday with flexible starting times and hybrid working.
Are you up for this challenge?

In this role, you will:

• Manage debt for our Out of Home sales channels on a national level, with a focus on following up on and receiving payments to overdue invoices
• Liaise with customers via email and/ or phone in a timely and accurate manner
• Communicate details to customers and comply with any requests for additional information to receive payments, reconcile accounts, and to provide solutions to any problems that arise
• Manage disputes with customers and build relationships with internal and external stakeholders

Qualifications

For this role as an Accounts Receivable Officer, we’re looking for someone who has the following skills and experience:

• You are a proactive Accounts Receivable professional with at least 2+ years of experience dealing with large volume collections
• You hold at least 2 years of recent experience using SAP
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience in negotiations
• You have proven internal and external stakeholder management skills
• Intermediate MS Excel knowledge

Additional Information

WHO WE ARE?

JDE Peet’s is the world’s leading pure-play coffee and tea company, serving approximately 4,200 cups of coffee or tea per second, and is headquartered in the Netherlands. For more than 265 years, we’ve been inspired by the belief that it’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee. We unleash the possibilities of coffee and tea in more than 100 countries with a portfolio of over 50 brands including Australian favourites such as Moccona, L’OR, Harris, Campos, Piazza D’Oro, Espresso di Manfredi, Pickwick and more. In 2022, JDE Peet’s generated total sales of 13.5 billion AUD and employed a global workforce of more than 20,000 employees.

In this role, you will:

• Manage debt for our Out of Home sales channels on a national level, with a focus on following up on and receiving payments to overdue invoices
• Liaise with customers via email and/ or phone in a timely and accurate manner
• Communicate details to customers and comply with any requests for additional information to receive payments, reconcile accounts, and to provide solutions to any problems that arise
• Manage disputes with customers and build relationships with internal and external stakeholder

For this role as an Accounts Receivable Officer, we’re looking for someone who has the following skills and experience:

• You are a proactive Accounts Receivable professional with at least 2+ years of experience dealing with large volume collections
• You hold at least 2 years of recent experience using SAP
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience in negotiations
• You have proven internal and external stakeholder management skills
• Intermediate MS Excel knowledg