Accounts Receivable Team Lead

Project Role : Account Receivable – Team lead

Location : Alabang Muntinlupa

Work Setup : Hybrid after 4months of full RTO (or after training period)

I. JOB SUMMARY: (Brief description of why the position exists or the overall purpose of the job.)

The FSSC Senior Specialist supports the process Team Leader. The role will support

Finance function and will be responsible to undertake accounting activities for Essilor

subsidiaries. In summary, the role will include carrying out the necessary tasks for the

day to day running of the assigned companies Accounts Receivable ledgers,

maintaining ledger accuracy and integrity. The employee may be required to

undertake such other tasks and responsibilities as may be directed, from time to time,

by the FSSC Team Leader / Supervisor that are consistent with the nature of the job

described above.

II. JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

People Management:

● Oversees the KPI of a small team (1 to 3 Senior Specialist);

● Trains New AP Accountants and Senior Specialists

Accounts Receivable

● Allocation of customer payments to customer accounts and specific invoices on

a daily basis;

● Responsible for the resolution of both unapplied and unallocated cash through

coordinating with sales department and collection agents;

● Ownership in investigating and resolving any AR items on the Cashbook;

● Raises manual Invoice, Debit and Credit Notes (usually for Intercompany

transactions);

● Maintaining customer account and sales ledger accuracy;

● Monitors the AR Aging report (which includes clean-up activities);

● Coordinates with internal customers (sales offices/factories/order

management/Credit Control team) for any query and/or disputes;

● Carry out daily work in order to meet performance measures set in service

agreements between local business units and the FSSC;

● When required, to support overall FSSC team in a wider range daily activities

not just relating to Accounts Receivable (example Accounts Payable);

● Other related duties which may be assigned by immediate superior (Finance

Manager)

Account Reconciliations, Accruals and other reports:

Performs the following schedules/reconciliations:

Weekly:

o List of Unallocated and Unapplied Cash;

Monthly:

o Prepare the bad debt schedule and calculate and propose Monthly Bad Debt

provision to local business unit;

o Review of monthly reconciliation of SL (Aging) & GL accounts pertaining to

AR and AR related accounts;

o Prepare the AR Intercompany Reconciliation and responsible for creating

and sending of Intercompany Statements of Accounts (for the assigned

BU). This includes chasing confirmations

● Responsible to review the reports of the Junior Associates in the team

Other Admin Functions

o Gather information for the monthly BSC such as transaction volumes, manhours, utilization rates, FTEs and etc.

o Update man hours based on actual time spent per process

o Conduct self evaluation based on defined performance target

o Gather supporting documents requested by the auditors.

o Follow specific ICare / SOX controls standards and procedures to all processes

being performed.

o Other related duties which may be assigned by immediate superior

IV. JOB SPECIFICATIONS

● Must Have:

o Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor's/College Degree in

Finance/Accountancy or equivalent.

o At least 4 years accounts receivable or general accounting-related work

experience and 1+ years into Leadership

o Should have experience in Shared Services

o Should have experience with ERP Systems (Oracle preferred)

o Should have good analytical skills

o Above average communication and inter personnel skills

o Team player skills

o Be able to work in a structured environment

o Good people's skills

o Excellent EXCEL skills

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