Senior Accountant, Accounts Receivables

Job Description

Joining AbbVie means you will be part of a team of outstanding professionals dedicated to making a remarkable impact on patients' lives.

At AbbVie, we conduct ground-breaking science on a global scale every day. AbbVie Canada is one of the Best Workplaces in Canada.

When choosing your career path, choose to be remarkable.

AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow.

We strive to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas : immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women’s health, and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

Under the supervision of the Lead Pricing and Credit, the Senior Accountant AR is responsible for the application of the credit policies and collection procedures established to minimize the past due and delinquency percentages of accounts receivable.

The Senior Accountant AR establishes relationships with customers and works closely with the Customer Service, Trade Team and Commercial teams to respond faster to customers’ requirements.

Key Responsibilities :

Accounting

• Perform month-end duties, including preparing journal entries following SOX requirement.
• General ledger account reconciliation and review.
• Prepare supporting documentation for SOX, External and Internal audit requirements.
• Act as a financial liaison between the Customer Service, Trade team, Group Purchasing organization (GPO) and other departments to assist in ad hoc projects and to analyze monthly performance.

Credit and Collection

• Monitor the AR aging report and follow-up with Credit Analysts.
• Prepare month-end journal entries and reconciliation for AR, Trade allowance, Billbacks and Rebates.
• Prepare Netting / write off Journal entries relating to bad debt, Trade allowance, chargebacks and over the counter deductions.
• Participate to the bad debt accruals and cash discount accruals review.
• Responsible for reconciliation and interaction with Wholesalers
• Perform risk and financial statement analyses for new customers.
• Monitor and review credit granting for new and existing clients, update process and recommend updates / changes as required.
• Support the Lead Pricing and Credit in the preparation of the AR aging report (monthly review with the Controller) in providing comments on past due items.
• Assist in the review of customer master changes and new customer set up.
• Support development and standardization of AbbVie’s corporate credit policy
• Ensure compliance with AbbVie’s corporate credit policies.
• Support resolution of credit issues with customers
• Monitor and support periodic credit reviews.
• Initiate process improvement and quality reviews to simplify and improve productivity.
• Identify, mitigate, and monitor risks in credit function.

Qualifications

Education / Experience Required :

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business, or a related field.
• 5-7 years of experience.
• Experience with credit scoring systems preferred.
• Proficient in reading / interpreting financial statements for the purpose of underwriting credit.
• Experience with SAP.

Essential Skills & Abilities :

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage relationships, both internally and externally.
• Audit background, problem-solving and customer service skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Bilingual in French and English.

Systems

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel Intermediate .
• SAP and order-to-cash activities and reporting.

Business Knowledge

• Business process, corporate policy (compliance and completeness) and financial data flows.
• Credit management.

Technical Knowledge

• Credit analysis and credit models.
• Accounting fundamentals.
• Fundamentals of financial planning and analysis.

Additional Information

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities to apply.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.

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