Accounts Receivable Officer, ANZ

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Cochlear’s mission is to help people hear and be heard. As the global leader in implantable hearing solutions, Cochlear is dedicated to helping people with moderate to profound hearing loss experience a world full of sound. We aim to transform the way people understand and treat hearing loss and innovate to connect people with future technologies. Our employees tell us that the number one reason they enjoy working for Cochlear is the opportunity to make a difference to people’s lives. Learn and grow with us as we tackle the most complex challenges in helping more people to experience a lifetime of hearing.

The Opportunity

Cochlear has an opportunity for a full time 12 month fixed term contract role for an Accounts Receivable Officer based in our Sydney Office (Macquarie Park). In this role, the successful Accounts Receivable Officer will support the Accounts Receivable function across the Australia and New Zealand business, ensuring accurate debtor management, timely invoice processing, effective collections activities and the maintenance of high-quality customer account records. The role also supports business transformation initiatives and process standardisation activities across the region.

Responsibilities include:

• Process customer receipts, banking transactions and SAP postings accurately and on time.
• Manage the timely distribution of customer invoices, statements, credit notes and related payment documentation.
• Maintain accurate customer account information and perform debtor account reconciliations.
• Proactively manage collections activities to achieve Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) targets and minimise aged debt.
• Support month-end and year-end Accounts Receivable close processes, including reconciliations and issue resolution.
• Contribute to business transformation, process improvement and standardisation initiatives across Accounts Receivable operations.

What makes this opportunity unique?        

This role offers the opportunity to play a key part in both day-to-day Accounts Receivable operations and broader finance transformation initiatives. You'll work across the ANZ business with exposure to multiple stakeholder groups, contribute to process improvements and help shape future Accounts Receivable practices while supporting a global healthcare organisation that changes lives through hearing technology.

About You. As we grow our operations, we are looking for people who share our passion for delivering quality hearing solutions to our customers. To add value to Cochlear in this role, you'll be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

Essential:

• Previous experience with full function Accounts Receivable and managing high volume of data.
• Strong trouble shooting and problem-solving ability.
• Very strong customer orientation and professional communication ability
• Ability to work autonomously in a small team.
• Results driven.

Ideal:

• SAP experience, ideally SAP S/4HANA
• Exposure to the Asia Pacific business environment
• Multinational experience

If you feel that you have the skills and experience to be successful in this role and take on new challenges to build your career with Cochlear, please start your application by clicking the apply button below.

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How we recognise your contribution

At Cochlear we value and welcome the unique contributions, perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds of our employees and aim to build a culture that celebrates and leverages these differences, creating a sense of belonging and enabling our people to realise their full potential. Through our internal programs and employee benefits, we aim to create an environment where our people will feel value and supported. Whether your focus is on continuous learning, professional development or simply finding an environment which enables you to thrive whilst balancing family or personal life commitments, then we have several programs in place to support you.

For more information about Life at Cochlear, visit www.cochlearcareers.com