Accounts Receivable Specialist

Account Receivables Specialist

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The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.

Why we are recruiting

To face business growth, the Accounts Receivables sub-team needs additional resources to maintain and guarantee its high level of service.

Reporting Lines & Interactions

The Account Receivable Specialist will be in a team of two people, within the wider finance operations team of eight, and reports to the Accounting Manager.

Responsibilities

• Management of Account Receivables, including:
• Booking incoming cash
• Iinvoicing and credit invoicing
• Monitoring the AR Inbox
• Addressing all AR queries (internally & externally)
• Completing vendors form and online payment platforms
• Performing aging analysis
• Booking and reconciling credit card payments
• Producing weekly reports for centre and function heads
• Assisting in ad-hoc projects

Contribute to preparing monthly / quarterly/ annual financial closing, including:

• Prepare relevant balance sheet account reconciliations
• Completing revenue recognition tasks
• Producing DSO, Bad Debts and Unpaids reports for the management reporting pack
• Supporting the Interim and Year End Audit process for AR

Credit Control, including:

• Collaborating closely with key stakeholders on credit control/collection
• Managing the payment reminder scheduled to be sent for overdue invoices
• Managing  customer overdue invoices with external partners / members
• Managing the list of participants registered to events and send external communications regarding the admission policy
• Collecting all open invoices prior to the start of an event

Projects, including:

• Improving key performance metrics for Unpaids (open invoices)
• Utilising existing tools to improve credit control management 
• Identifying continuous improvement activities across the Accounts Receivable landscape

Academic qualifications

• Bachelor in finance or Brevet Federal in Accounting
• Work experience and skills
• 3 to 5 years of experience in financial accounting
• Excellent knowledge in cost accounting and VAT
• Excellent spoken and written English - French is an advantage
• Ability to organize workload and to prioritise multiple workstreams
• High sense of urgency and commitment to objectives
• Confident and able to present to senior management

Why join us?

Join an independent and impartial organization with over 55 years of connecting leaders to make sense of global challenges and move the world forward together.