Accounts Receivable Assistant
Full TimeJob Overview
Join Zencargo, a fast-growing digital freight forwarder transforming global supply chains, as an Accounts Receivable (AR) Assistant based in the Philippines. You’ll play a key role in driving accurate multi-currency invoicing, credit control, and cash collection while partnering with teams across the business to keep operations moving. If you’re detail-driven, proactive, and confident with NetSuite and spreadsheets, this is a great opportunity to grow your finance career in a dynamic, global company.
Key Responsibilities
- Processing sales invoices
- Using our internal platform to generate customer invoices
- Convert multi-currency transactions at relevant rates
- Ensuring the correct general ledger codes are used
- Ad-hoc and bespoke billing, as required
- Credit control
- Debt collection via telephone and email
- Weekly review of AR ageing for portfolio of customers
- Liaising with Account Managers to help chase debts
- Collaborating with FinOps to resolve any customer queries that are blocking payment
- Maintaining customer records
- VAT & Duties
- Ownership of end-to-end processing of supplier invoices for customs charges, and rebilling to customer
- Bank reconciliations
- Reconciling banks daily, in multiple currencies
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
Soft Skills
- Strong communication skills: Ability to clearly and effectively liaise with Finance and other teams.
- Problem solving: Identifies problems and makes recommendations on solutions. Constantly assesses existing processes and ways to improve.
- Attention to detail: Approaches tasks methodically and in an organised manner to enable identification of and elimination of errors.
- Punctuality: Consistently reliable in meeting deadlines and ensuring tasks are completed on time.
- Collaboration: Proven ability to work closely with cross-functional teams to achieve shared goals.
- Customer service: Provides excellent care to both internal and external clients.
Technical/Competency Skills
- Proficiency in accounting software: Strong familiarity with Netsuite and spreadsheets
- Accounting principles: Basic to good understanding of accounting principles
- Data analysis: Ability to analyse data, identify trends and potential issues, and to make recommendations based on findings
- Invoicing: Disciplined approach to following strict invoicing protocols, including all standard processes and any agreed-upon non-standard processes
- Multi-currency: Ability to manage large datasets in multiple currencies, and follow robust processes to ensure conversions are calculated accurately