Specialist - Accounts Receivables

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Come join a dynamic team where your experience from similar roles, your attention to detail and communication skills can make a real impact

The Specialist plays an important role in establishing a sustainable AR department in the BSO and will be actively contributing to the development of a top-performing department working with Accounts Receivables.

**Core Responsibilities**:
Deliver high performance customer service for Customer Account Services (CAS) - Accounts Receivables processes and support the Team Lead in

handling other ad-hoc tasks.

This will include amongst other tasks:

- Manage debt collection activities for the assigned countries within APAC region portfolio.

- Super User for APAC Collections with active participation in global forums and co-lead to drive initiatives.

- Follow up on overdue and collection as well as reporting to senior partners

- Fronting Customers to resolve dispute and payment issues

- Providing recommendation to Finance Business Partners in managing the Market Accounts Receivable aging and risk exposure

- Actively and timely responds to internal/external customer requests to fulfill their expectations

- Ensuring the aging and bad debts of the assigned BU meets the goals and coordinating the corrective actions to support/back-up the AR Manager

- Driving optimization initiatives within own functional areas and ensuring compliance of company policies and procedures and smooth operations

- Building and fostering good relationships with senior partners and demanding customers to meet their needs

- Strategic collaboration with the Order to Cash team members to cater to their service needs and smoothen operations

- Proactively supporting the service needs including advice to business teams, challenge business on credit risk, drive improvement in DSO and overdue

- Building and strengthening professional network globally

- Understanding the value of service provided and suggest continuous improvement ideas to enhance productivity and efficiency

- Participating in projects that drives process simplification

- Promoting regional/global process standardization

**Play your part in our team succeeding**:
We support the LEGO Group by consistent, high-quality, and customer-oriented execution of AR processes. This enables the BSO to succeed in delivering significant value to the LEGO Group organization.

**Do you have, what it takes?**:

- App. 7+ years of demonstrated working experience from Finance function and preferably experience in international accounting or from a Shared Service organization

- Experience of working and driving a highly collaborative environment in a global setting, promoting coherence and the end-to-end perspective

- Superior interpersonal abilities and adept at effectively communicating with both internal and external customers

- Personal drive and initiative, excellent collaboration skills and ability to build trust and credibility.

- Microsoft Office and SAP at expert level

- Working proficiency in written and spoken English and Japanese language to effectively support APAC market including Japan

**What’s in it for you?**

Here is what you can expect:
**Family Care Leave**:

- We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

**Insurances**- All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

**Wellbeing**:

- We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

**Colleague Discount**- We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

**Bonus**:

- We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

**Workplace**:

- When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

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