Accounts Receivable / Senior Accounts Receivable Analyst

Company Description

Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) is a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods, leveraging our global reach and extensive asset network to deliver for our customers around the world – safely, responsibly and reliably. Our diversified activities span the entire value chain from farm to fork, across a broad range of business lines. Since 1851, our portfolio has grown to include Oilseeds, Grains, Rice, Global Markets, Finance, Coffee, Cotton, Sugar, Juice and Dairy.

We help feed and clothe some 500 million people every year by originating, processing and transporting approximately 81 million tons of products. Structured as a matrix organization of 6 geographical regions and 10 platforms, LDC is active in over 100 countries and employs some 19 000 people globally.

Job Description

As part of our expansion of the shared services team in Malaysia, we are looking to hire an Accounts Receivable / Senior Accounts Receivable Analyst to join our growing team. With strong knowledge of accounting principles, the analyst will liaise with internal departments to resolve outstanding accounting issues and drive improvements to processes and aging balance optimization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage effectively incoming (outgoing) cash and financial instruments through bank and transit accounts. Responsible to ensure cash booking, reconciliation, closing activities and reporting are completed timely in compliance with policy and regulations.
• Manage intercompany reconciliation as per Company’s procedures, proactively work with counterparties to improve the reconciliation process and reduce mismatches.
• Manage intercompany reconciliation process as per Company’s procedures.
• Analyze the receivables aging balance, overdue and follow up with relevant departments to reduce risk of bad debt losses.
• Risk exposure reporting and turnover declaration of the respective entities.
• Resolve queries that fall within the scope of the assigned responsibilities.
• Act as the key interface role between various Company departments – Treasury, Controlling, Execution, Credit Risk, etc., where the team members can strongly influence customer satisfaction by managing the relationship through communication and actions taken.
  
  

(For Senior role):

• Conducts trainings to newly employed and current employees
• Undertakes personal initiative for improvements and participates in projects on standardization and automation of processes and systems and implementation of the good practices
• Advice the team on specific issues, related to the use of systems and the implementation of group processes
• Specialist on the used systems/implemented processes, participates in the implementation of new systems as well as the implementation of new or modified accounting standards
• Undertakes tasks, related to transfer of new companies during the process of stabilization
  
  

Experience

• Degree in accounting/finance
  
  

Required Languages

English

Additional Information

Working Experience

• Previous accounts receivable/ cash management/credit control/customer service experience face-to-face or on the phone is an advantage
• Experience in process optimization and innovation activities is an advantage
• Experience in a multinational environment is an advantage
  
  

Language Skills

• Good level of English language to work with English-speaking counterparts
  
  

PC Skills

• Good user knowledge of MS Office especially Excel
  
  

Personal Skills

• Confident communicator with an ability to use own initiative
• Good organizational and problem solving skills
• Ability to work to strict targets and deadlines, willing to learn
• Ability to demonstrate customer focused orientation
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Good numerical skills
• Strongly developed interpersonal skills
• Ability to work in a team
  
  

What We Offer

We provide a dynamic and stimulating international environment, which will stretch and develop your abilities and channel your skills and expertise with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

Our Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Hybrid work available (not applicable to all roles)
• Pension contributions
• Access to Training and Development
• Access to Concierge Partnerships
  
  

Diversity & Inclusion

LDC is driven by a set of shared values and high ethical standards, with diversity and inclusion being part of our DNA. LDC is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion.

LDC encourages diversity, supports local communities and environmental initiatives. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.

Sustainability

Sustainable value is at the heart of our purpose as a company.

We are passionate about creating fair and sustainable value, both for our business and for other value chain stakeholders: our people, our business partners, the communities we touch and the environment around us