Cash Application Junior Specialist

Job Title

Cash Application Junior Specialist

Job Description

Job Title : Cash Application Junior Specialist

Location : Chennai

Market : NAM (North American)

Shift : 2 PM to 11 PM and 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

Review of customer portal for remittance advice

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

You're the right fit if :

College graduate or bachelor's degree in accounting / finance or accounting professional equivalent

Minimum 1 to 2 years of experience in Cash application

Prior Cash Applications / AR experience in a high-volume environment is considered a plus

Experience in SAP system

Proficient in MS Excel

Fluent English both written and spoken

Customer service focus

Determination to achieve excellent results

Possibility of shift work (preferably 2 PM to 11 PM and 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.

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About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.

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If you're interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion .

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Skills Required

Ms Excel, Sap