Senior Cash Application Specialist

Senior Specialist I2C

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

adidas Global Business Services delivers high quality services in the areas of Order to Cash (O2C), Source to Pay (S2P), Record to Report (R2R), Controlling & Reporting and Hire to Retire for adidas companies and subsidiaries located globally.

 

The Cash Application Senior Specilaist will be responsible for performing daily activities such as bank account reconciliation, cash application for customer and general ledger accounts. Your goal will be to deliver all activities on timely manner and with the required quality. You will be supporting projects, including process standardization related as well as tools implementation ones.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform daily activities such as bank account reconciliation, cash application for customer and general ledger accounts
• Clarifying differences on the postingsReconcile different forms of postings – including credit card postings
• Partner with the credit specialist on customer reconciliations and problem resolutions
• Create and analyze various reports with regards to the cash application related topics including regular reporting
• Maintain files and documentation thoroughly and accurately, in accordance with company policy and accepted accounting practices
• Identify the improvement opportunities and support their implementation
• Support ongoing projects for the implementation of technology solutions
• Support requests from partner Finance departments
• Establish and maintain strong financial controls over the work performed
• Perform balance sheet reconciliation, accounts review and provide variances explanations
• Perform period end closing activities such as accruals, provisions and balance sheet reclassifications

 

Key Relationships

• Finance Teams
• Process Owners
• IT & Corporate Solutions
• Credit and Collections teams

 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Written and spoken English
• Very good communication skills
• Customer orientation and empathy
• Eye to details
• Microsoft office tools proficiency
• Knowledge of LEAN methodology is a benefit 

 

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience in SAP (mandatory)
• 7+ years of working experience (at least 4 years experience in Cash Application activities)
• Experience with process improvement and root cause analysis would be a plus
• Experience in GBS environment
• Degree in accounting, Finance or Economics, other similar studies 

Experience Level

Senior Level