Financial Officer (Accounts Receivable)

Billing on time to customers according with the regular business time frames, track on time collection with different group of customers to maintain key financial KPI such as: Days Outstanding (DSO) and Average Days of Payment (ADP). All this while maintaining records of the financial transactions of customers, reconciliation of accounts, relationship management and resolution of queries from the customer, being able to communicate effectively with the company.

Key Performance Outputs

• Ensure correct and timely daily issuance of invoices,
• Ensure correct sales adjustments are generated because of clearing deductions taken by our customers,
• Reconciliations for Electronic Data Interchange customers,
• Send and mantain documents and account statements up to date for all the customers,
• Punctual follow-up on the collection of invoices,
• Find the root causes of overdue unpaid and short-paid invoices,
• Reconcile customer accounts, ensuring proper handling of pricing issues, rejections, and other discrepancies with Sales and Logistics teams,
  
• Accurately post daily cash receipts and manage transactions in our ERP.
  

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field, fully graduated.
  
• 2 years of work experience on Accounting or Accounts Receivable (AR) for Produce/Retail customers with Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) protocols.
  
• English required. Advanced level and business vocabulary needed.
  
• Desirable experience in fruit or berry industries but not exclusive.
  

Functional / Tecnical

• Knowledge of ERP and Microsoft office (Excell intermediate)
• Electronic data interchange protocols
• Knowledge to use vendor portals
  

Soft Skills 

• Capable of working in a virtual environment,
• Strong communication and analytical skills,
• Customer service orientes,
• Focus driven, problem solver,
• Collaboration as a team member,
• Open to cultural differences (time frame differences).
  

Benefits