Accounts Receivable Specialist

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As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 77,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. www.welocalize.com

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

The Accounts Receivable Specialist role is a pivotal role within the multinational, multicurrency European Finance team. To succeed as an Accounts Receivable Specialist, you should be committed to providing efficient, reliable support to customers, accounting department members, other departments and external parties. The applicant must be a self-starter, organised, flexible, have good interpersonal skills, ability to prioritise, strong focus on quality, work in a team, adhere and deliver to global deadlines.

MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB

The Collections Specialist is responsible for working closely with the Accounts Receivable Department and relevant stakeholders to monitor and maintain AR records and accounts.

Key responsibilities of the role include:
- Ensure accurate customer requirement review and invoice generation.
- Invoice collections cycle management and remittance processing.
- Analyse invoice queries, aged items and queries following through to resolution.
- Liaise with and support customers in a professional manner.
- Support the preparation of multicurrency weekly cash forecast.
- Liaise with and provide metrics/reports to key stakeholders.
- Assistance with external audit.
- Other ad hoc duties as requested by your manager.
- Participate in team planning meetings.
- Weekly and monthly reporting to direct supervisor.
- Meet defined department goals and activity metrics.

The successful candidate will have:
- Minimum 1 year of experience in an AR role in a European Finance Department would be beneficial.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- European language would be beneficial.
- Knowledge of European VAT would be beneficial.
- A flexible and helpful approach.
- Proven communication and interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships with key stakeholders.
- Strong excel skills, Zendesk & ERP experience.