SCS Accounts Receivable Analyst (12 month contract)
Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Corporate Functions
Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn’t have imagined — and now can’t imagine living without. If you’re excited by the idea of making a real impact, a career with Apple might be your dream job… Just be prepared to dream big!
Collaboration is important at Apple, and every day you will connect with and be supported by your peers and colleagues at one of the most diverse and inclusive companies in the world! As an individual, you will have responsibility for working to our continued success and be a key player within your job function.
We support and promote career development throughout the organisation, offering an exciting career with many opportunities to enable you perfect your existing skills - and acquire new ones.
In this role, you'll join the wider Finance team at Apple. With over 300 employees from a multitude of backgrounds, the Finance department in Cork supports all functions of Apple in EMEIA, including Sales Fulfilment, Logistics, Manufacturing and Operations, Apple Music, Apple Retail as well as the Global Business Solutions (GBS) function.
This is a key role in a dynamic environment. This role is to our SCS (Supple Chain Support) team that supports global commodity & finished good procurement and related accounting. We are a team of 31 people within GBS who support a mix of P2P, AR and reporting functions for this business area, with daily interaction with our global colleagues.
Key Qualifications
- Experience working with supply chain.
- Strong analytical skills with proven ability to interpret data.
- Ability to build effective business partnerships and influence across multiple functional teams
- Innovation with a proven ability of problem solving
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, demonstrating experience of influencing key partners
- Ability to critically review files and processes, with a keen eye for detail
- Strong business sense with ability to think strategically and see the bigger picture
- Motivated, ambitious and able to effectively manage workload
- Work on your own initiative and demonstrate ownership in your role.
- Teamwork needs to be a priority
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel
- Proficient with SAP
Description
Responsibilities include but not limited to:
The successful candidate will become part of the wider GBS team with global interactions with supply chain customers and suppliers.
Managing customer risk across a profile of high value and high volume customers. Responsibilities include issuing statements, collecting payments and matching against invoices due, resolving customer queries as they arise.
Develop positive relationships both internally with business operation teams and externally with customer finance counterparts to facilitate proactive account management which is required to prevent balances from falling overdue.
As delinquencies occur, you need to manage the customer effectively, and call out issues in a timely and concise manner. This involves understanding the underlying supply chain processes end to end and collaborating cross functionally with the business teams to gain traction on resolution.
Involvement in preparation of some financial close reports.
Validation and execution of Return Material Authorisations (RMAs).
Validation and execution of Price Adjustments
Ensure all activities are completed within SLA’s and full engagement and participation in ad-hoc projects are required.
Support the team and manager to with ad-hoc reporting as the need arises. Such tasks should be approached in a methodical manner and attention to detail is essential.
Support other parts of the wider SCS organisation (P2P, R2R) in a collaborative manner as the arises.
Education & Experience
Relevant education and experience is required
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, multitask and adapt to changes in priorities at any given time.