Back to search.Apple - Bilingual Accounts Receivable Team Leader
| Employment Type: | Permanent |
| Location: | Cork - South-West, Ireland |
| Salary: | Excellent |
| Languages: | Dutch, French, German |
Job Background
The Finance team in Cork manages all accounting activities for Apples extensive business in Europe. This growing team, which numbers approximately 100 Finance professionals supports more than 40 legal entities in 20 countries across the region.
The team forms part of a dynamic global organization, aligned by process tracks which are managed locally, but with a strong alignment to global process ownership.
We are expanding the suite of services provided to our business partners and are adding capacity at each of our three shared service locations. As part of this expansion, we are seeking to recruit an Accounts Recievable Team Lead.
The successful candidate will become a member of the wider Finance team with regional interactions. This is a key role in a dynamic environment with the potential for the role to develop further with additional responsibilities in line with business requirements.
The person will be responsible for managing a team ensuring all customer payments due are received and matched correctly on receipt, resolving customer financial queries, documenting and actioning accordingly where payment is not received. This will involve close interaction with the European Credit Team, Order Management and Logistics.
Key Tasks
• Proactive Customer Management to prevent accounts from becoming overdue
• Dealing with escalations from the AR associates.
• Recruitment, training and ongoing development of staff
• Ensuring the team meet agreed SLAs and targets
• Addressing AR issues and escalating where appropriate
• Receive and give inputs to initiate legal and insurance actions
• Provide support to the Credit and Cash Applications Teams as required
• Compiling metrics and data analysis in support of the Credit Team
• Metrics reporting & process improvements
• Month end activities
• Ensuring all activities are completed in accordance with Sarbanes Oxley
• Excellent customer services to both external & internal customers ie. Credit Managers, Credit Team, Cash Apps team, Logistics and Order Management
Requirements:
• Excellent communication, organizational & interpersonal skills
• Qualified Accountant with strong business partnering focus
• Experience in a fast paced, dynamic environment
• Self Starter, who is motivated, flexible and capable of working on own initiative
• People Management Experience
• 3-5 years AR experience
• Fluency in a European Language an advantage
The Finance team in Cork manages all accounting activities for Apples extensive business in Europe. This growing team, which numbers approximately 100 Finance professionals supports more than 40 legal entities in 20 countries across the region.
The team forms part of a dynamic global organization, aligned by process tracks which are managed locally, but with a strong alignment to global process ownership.
We are expanding the suite of services provided to our business partners and are adding capacity at each of our three shared service locations. As part of this expansion, we are seeking to recruit an Accounts Recievable Team Lead.
The successful candidate will become a member of the wider Finance team with regional interactions. This is a key role in a dynamic environment with the potential for the role to develop further with additional responsibilities in line with business requirements.
The person will be responsible for managing a team ensuring all customer payments due are received and matched correctly on receipt, resolving customer financial queries, documenting and actioning accordingly where payment is not received. This will involve close interaction with the European Credit Team, Order Management and Logistics.
Key Tasks
• Proactive Customer Management to prevent accounts from becoming overdue
• Dealing with escalations from the AR associates.
• Recruitment, training and ongoing development of staff
• Ensuring the team meet agreed SLAs and targets
• Addressing AR issues and escalating where appropriate
• Receive and give inputs to initiate legal and insurance actions
• Provide support to the Credit and Cash Applications Teams as required
• Compiling metrics and data analysis in support of the Credit Team
• Metrics reporting & process improvements
• Month end activities
• Ensuring all activities are completed in accordance with Sarbanes Oxley
• Excellent customer services to both external & internal customers ie. Credit Managers, Credit Team, Cash Apps team, Logistics and Order Management
Requirements:
• Excellent communication, organizational & interpersonal skills
• Qualified Accountant with strong business partnering focus
• Experience in a fast paced, dynamic environment
• Self Starter, who is motivated, flexible and capable of working on own initiative
• People Management Experience
• 3-5 years AR experience
• Fluency in a European Language an advantage
You cannot apply for this job as it is no longer active.
