Job Description

This role acts as a senior AR specialist responsible for ensuring operational excellence, supporting the Team Lead in managing daily activities, coaching team members, and driving continuous improvement across the Accounts Receivable process.

Responsibilities:
• Review sales contracts globally to ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, and revenue recognition requirements.
• Create and maintain contract terms, billing schedules, and pricing accurately and in a timely manner within the system.
• Ensure proper reconciliation of contract information and revenue data, investigating discrepancies and escalating potential risks or issues to relevant stakeholders.
• Process sales orders and manage contract amendments, renewals, modifications, and cancellations in accordance with approved contract terms.
• Create and maintain customer master data records accurately and in a timely manner, ensuring compliance with data governance standards.
• Generate accurate and timely invoices, issue credit notes, and resolve billing-related disputes and customer queries.
• Apply customer receipts accurately, perform customer account reconciliations, and investigate unapplied or outstanding cash items.
• Support the AR Team Lead in overseeing daily operations to ensure service delivery is accurate, timely, and aligned with business requirements.
• Monitor and track AR operational KPIs and SLAs (e.g., response time, accuracy and timeliness), identifying trends and driving corrective actions where required.
• Act as a key point of contact for internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams to resolve complex billing, contract, and customer account issues.
• Coach, train, and provide day-to-day guidance to junior team members, supporting onboarding, knowledge sharing, and capability development.
• Review and validate work performed by junior team members to ensure accuracy, compliance, and adherence to established procedures.
• Drive continuous process improvement initiatives, identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency, strengthen controls, and reduce operational risks.
• Maintain and update SOPs, process documentation, and training materials to ensure consistency, scalability, and audit readiness.
• Ensure compliance with financial, tax, and internal control requirements, while supporting month-end closing activities, audits, system enhancements, UAT, and other ad-hoc projects as assigned.
• Perform any other ad-hoc duties as assigned by superior.

Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree or associate degree in accounting, Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant working experience in Accounts Receivable.
• Good knowledge of accounting principles.
• Prior experience in SSC (Shared Service Centre) or multinational company.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work with financial data.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work to deadlines.
• Good written and spoken communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively within a team. Mandarin speaker will be a plus.
• Proficient in MS Office. Basic to Intermediate MS Excel skills (VLookup, Pivot and basic formulas).
• Proficiency in accounting software and ERP systems. Experience in MS Dynamics CRM and NetSuite will be a plus.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a face-paced environment.
• Ability to work in UK hours during the month-end close period to ensure timely support and delivery of deadlines.
• Flexible to work when required during Malaysia public holidays in which replacement holidays will be provided.

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