Cash Application Specialist

Job Title

Job Title: Cash Application Specialist

Location: Chennai

Market: ME&A (Middle East, and Africa)

Shift: 12 Noon to 9 PM

Mandatory Language: Fluent English both written and spoken

About the Job:

As Cash Application Junior Specialist, you will join Philips’ Accounting Operations team . On daily basis you will have a chance to take an active role in helping to form our new centralized cash applications team, and the accounting and reconciliation activities that relate. This work all supports our existing team of Collections Specialists who are responsible for cash collections with a defined group of major/key customer accounts, at Philips by maintaining excellent relationships with our customers, internal finance leadership, and cross-functional business partners.

Your role:

• Daily retrieval of bank activity (ACH, wire, lockbox and credit card) and ERP receipt activity and post payments to customer accounts

• Daily posting of cash receipts as well as SAP coding of deductions taken, by customer, as per remittance detail provided by customer/collections team

• Daily and monthly reconciliations against monthly bank statements – identifying and resolving reconciliation items on customer accounts

• Process offsets to clear matched debits and credits on customer accounts

• Manage the Unapplied Cash report and work with Collections to identify solutions to unreconciled cash items

• Providing indirect leadership to cash applications, internal finance leadership and cross-functional business partners related to cash management best practices

• Support and contribute to accounts receivable accounting lean process improvements

• Drive improvements in process automation

You're the right fit if:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent or vocational Education in finance, accounting, business administration, economics

• Minimum 2 years of experience in Cash Application high volume environment; experience in Accounts Receivable Management and/or Collections is considered a plus

• Experience in SAP system, knowledge of Autobank is considered a plus

• Analytical skills, proficient in MS Excel

• Fluent English - both written and spoken

• Customer service focus

• Determination to achieve excellent results

• Possibility of shift work (preferably 12 Noon to 9 PM)

How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations. Indicate if this role is an office/field/onsite role.

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