Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

Accounts Receivable/Payable Operations:

• Lead the overall Accounts Receivable & Payables functions.
• Be responsible for policies regarding Accounts Receivable and Payable.
• Build effective relationships with sales team members to identify and resolve billing issues and revenue risks.
• Work cross functionally with the Finance team to help drive key system initiatives and system improvements.
• Identify areas for continuous improvement in the Order-to-Cash programs by reviewing company policies and advising management on possible risks and improvements.
• Responsible for leading the implementation of best practice, creating, and communicating policies, and managing the daily operations, frameworks, and processes to cross functional teams.
• Manage the Domestic and international customer credit limit changes and cash collection.
• Assist Controller with forecast of weekly collections.
• Oversee/review customer credits/rebills to ensure properly recorded timely.
• Monitor aging and collectability of customer accounts and facilitate resolution of customer disputes.
• Direct employees on appropriate collection and follow up activities as well as buyer/vendor activities
• Liaise with third party collection agency as needed.
• Monitor and respond to incoming invoices and check requests for goods and services.
• Monitor accounts payable KPI’s and ensure compliance with company standards.
• Verify that transactions comply with financial policies and procedures.
• Prepare and process weekly accounts payable checks, wire transfers and ACH payments in multiple currencies.
• Maintain and upkeep accounts payable to ensure payments are up to date.
• Vendor file maintenance.
• Act as company credit card and T&E administrator: Facilitate employee trainings, provide assistance, facilitate account maintenance.
• Expense report coordination and data entry, payment processing.
• Value Added Tax processing.
• Maintain uninvoiced receipts.
• Other duties as assigned.

Month/Year-end Close Process:

• Oversee the accounts receivable and accounts payable month-end closing processes for all locations including rollforwards/reconciliation of all accounts.
  • Assist Controller with AR/AP-related inputs to the monthly ABL (revolver loan) availability calculation.
  • Develop and maintain appropriate KPIs.
  • Serve as primary point of contact for applicable areas during year-end external audit.

Criteria:

• Proficient with MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Advanced analytical skills
• Demonstrated proficiency in written, verbal and face-to-face communication
• Strong interpersonal skills to cultivate and maintain relationships with department managers and other cultures
• Flexibility to handle changing priorities and tight deadlines

Qualifications:

• Minimum work experience of 4-5 years in accounts receivable/payable, preferably in the manufacturing industry
• 2+ years of accounts receivable/payable supervisory experience with demonstrated people management and process leadership
• Minimum education of bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
• Experience with Dynamics SL and/or Oracle, preferred
• Able to work under time pressure, prioritize a high workload, and meet strict deadlines
• Positive attitude and flexibility to changing priorities, especially in the period of month/quarter/year-end closing
• Self-motivated with a focus on process improvements
• Proficiency in Concur Expense preferred
• Ability to manage multiple activities and prioritize independently
• A keen customer service mentality

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are the representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk; and stoop or kneel. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to ten pounds, occasionally lift and/or move up to twenty pounds, and rarely lift and/or move more than twenty-five pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Verdesian Life Sciences is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex, and sexual orientation.