Cash and Collection Specialist
Summary:
Our Cash and Collections Specialist enjoys working in a collaborative environment with a passion for nurturing and supporting a growing, innovative company culture. Ensuring our team members, customers, and partners receive the highest degree of care, accuracy, responsiveness, and fiscal support, this role will assess financial and customer information, evaluate risk, and ensure financial stability. This position will participate in LNA management and corporate treasury discussions relating to credit decisions, and identify/report information regarding accounts with at-risk factors. This person is analytical and detail-oriented and helps foster a continuous improvement posture to ensure fiscal processes and systems provide optimum results. This position follows a combination of on-premise and hybrid working.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Credit
- Review daily cash activity for both U.S. and Canadian accounts, processing customer payments, and resolving issues involving transactions. Manage and initiate wire payments in RBC/Canada and DB/US.
- Review dealer AR past due amounts and troubleshoot credit situations for dealers and work towards fair and reasonable solutions while maintaining the integrity and interest of Lely North America. Review and send collection letters via MaxCredible
- Document issues surrounding invoices/projects and distribute via various means of communication
- Monitor customer behavior and reactions related to dunning and dispute management
- Help in developing a robust credit management policy system
Other Finance duties include,
- Concur Administration – audit expense reports, provide training and support for employees requiring assistance with expense reports, update Concur data as needed, as well as analyze and reconcile credit card accounts in accordance with company policy
- Invoice/Credits – FMS training, Marketing Chargeback, Astri Credit, Misc Invoices/credits
- Monitoring of cash balances and identifying needed FX movement
- Month-ended journal entries, Reconcile monthly GLs, Communicate month-end AR numbers/graphs
- Horizon – Issue credits
- Various ad-hoc reporting and analysis
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Education and/or Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance with 2-3 years of related experience
Key Skills and Abilities:
- Approachable spirit and embraces and welcomes feedback with a growth mindset
- Solution-oriented with the ability to create new approaches and processes
- Ability to prioritize tasks in an ever-changing environment
- Broad payroll administration experience and understanding of associated compliance requirements
- Ability to be proactive and solve problems expeditiously, while always maintaining a calm and professional demeanor
- Strong and adaptable interpersonal skills – effectively communicate with a variety of internal and external customers
- Can be trusted to work with confidential and sensitive information
- Attention to detail and observant of finer details with an appreciation for accuracy and consistency
- Collaborative and able to work alongside knowledgeable, driven teammates, yet able to independently run a project from start to finish
Application Procedure:
Complete standard online application for Cash and Collections Specialist on the link below, including submission of Cover Letter and Resume with an email address, telephone number, and address for both school and permanent residence.
Who We Are: Vision, Mission, and Core Values
Our Vision: A sustainable, profitable, and enjoyable future in farming
Our Mission: We create innovative solutions that help our customers excel in sustainable milk production to feed the world.
Our Core Values: Lely has 5 core values. Values that guide us in how we behave in dealing with others within Lely and as we meet with partners, clients, and other business relationships, independent of place and time, we show our values through our actions.
- Innovation: We change traditions by continuously seeking new ideas for positive change
- Passion: We love what we do and are passionate to support our customers
- Progress: We grow because our people are motivated to improve and move forward
- Respect: Our focus is the well-being of people, animals, and the environment
- Honesty: Being truthful and fair is essential in our way of working
About Lely:
Founded in 1948, Lely directs all its efforts toward creating a sustainable, profitable, and enjoyable future in farming. With the focus always on the cow, the company develops premium robotics and data systems that improve animal welfare, flexibility, and production on the dairy farm. For more than 25 years, Lely has been a market leader in the sale and service of automated milking systems to successive generations of dairy farmers across the globe. Lely inspires its employees every day to offer customers innovative solutions and be a reliable partner for long-term advice and support. With a head office in the Netherlands and a worldwide network of dedicated Lely Center locations for tailor-made sales and support, the Lely Group is active in more than 40 countries and employs around 1,800 people.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Lely provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.