Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life. Patients are at the heart of what we do at Edwards Lifesciences. Our Finance teams work hard to optimize our current and long-term success and enable our ongoing strategy of innovation, leadership, and focus. As part of the team, whether providing analysis, forecasting, or reporting financial information, your application of accurate financial business practices will play a fundamental role in how we impact the quality of life for patients all over the world.
This role will interact with customers for the quick retrieval of payment in Brazil, so advance portuguese is required.
How´ll make an impact:
• Able to read, write, comprehend, and speak Spanish and Portuguese
• Engage with customers on a timely basis, execute collection activities, reconcile and track daily/ monthly Accounts Receivable balance accounts with customer records; processing and generating reminder letters and monthly statements
• Review, evaluate and calculate customer’s credit risk on an annual basis by using credit bureau data, public information, and internal data to ensure compliance as per policy; recommend and revise credit limits and payment terms as needed
• Ensure timely cash application of customers payments; scrutinize underpayments and correlate the compensatory credits with corresponding promotional activities, pricing discrepancies, or disputes over quantity
• Support Accounts Receivable operations ensuring compliance with relevant accounting principles and internal controller; ensure timely processing of customer refunds, credit notes and commission verifications
• Participate in any process improvement related projects
• Incidental duties
What we look for (Required):
• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, or Business Administration and 3 years of previous quote to cash experience required
• Master's Degree or equivalent 1 year of previous quote to cash experience Preferred
• Experience working in a medical device and/ or manufacturing industry Preferred
What else we look for (Preferred):
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good computer skills in MS Office Suite including Excel required
• Good experience and knowledge in JDE required
• Excellent communication, interpersonal relationship, and negotiation skills
• Able to read, write, comprehend, and speak in English, preferred.
• Expertise in one or more functional areas and detailed knowledge of other areas impacted within the business
• Strict attention to detail
• Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Must be able to work in a team environment, including the ability to manage vendors and stakeholders
• Ability to build productive internal/external working relationships
• Responsible for individual and collective team contributions.
• Ability to provide suggestions based upon knowledge and analysis.
• Ability to influence cross site activities.
• Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control