Darigold is seeking a motivated and dedicated Accounts Receivable & Trade Specialist with a passion for accuracy and customer service to join our team. The Accounts Receivables and Trade Specialist will work as a key member of the Shared Accounting Services team. This position will help ensure timely collection of past due receivables on customer accounts along with accurate and timely review and recording of customer deductions aligned to company policies. This role will also partner with Sales, Customer Service, Marketing, Distribution, Warehousing, Plant, Finance, Accounting and IT teams working accounts receivable, trade and non-trade projects, systems, analysis, month-end and year-end close.
Darigold is the fifth largest dairy cooperative in the United States based on milk volume, and one of the largest privately held organizations headquartered in the state of Washington. Since 1918, our producers have taken pride in producing dairy products with unsurpassed quality. Today we are one of the nation's largest agricultural cooperatives, producing over 8.5 billion pounds of milk every year. Through innovative technology and our efficient, flexible production capabilities, we deliver value-added products and customer-driven solutions. Darigold is now known throughout the world for bringing fresh, wholesome dairy products and ingredients from the Northwest to people all around the globe.
What You Will Do:
- Partner with Sales and Customer Service in support of collections and resolution regarding late payments and unresolved balances
- Help ensure collection efforts and the review of deductions are being tracked accurately, timely and conform with company policies
- Consolidate notes for analysis on Accounts Receivable customers
- Work with cross-functional teams to resolve any accounts receivable, trade and non-trade system interface errors
- Monitor EDI, portal and email invoicing and escalation trackers
- Review customer files and ensure all transactions have all mandatory support backup
- Partner with internal business partners on troubleshooting customer invoicing issues
- Monitor manual customer credit and debit memo adjustment escalations and trackers
- Help review and analyze daily sales orders, ordering trends and receivable balances for order release
- Provide backup in the department as needed
What You Bring:
- Bachelor of Science degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or equivalent education/experience related field is preferred
- Minimum 3 years of experience in Accounts Receivables required
- 3+ years of experience in the Consumer Product Group, Wholesale and/or Retail industries strongly preferred
- Trade system and trade management/deductions experience strongly preferred
- Knowledge of basic accounting principles and internal controls preferred
- Strong understanding of business, business processes and various systems to enable business decisions
- Knowledge of Oracle Fusion (Cloud) or other large ERP systems
- Strong competence and technical skills of Accounts Receivable, Collection and Trade Spend integrated systems and processes
- Ability to integrate and interpret disparate sources of data using a broad range of analytical data tools
- Strong skills with Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Creates an environment that encourages and rewards teamwork and collaboration, both internally and externally; seeks different points of view and perspectives
- Methodical and effective problem solver, implements solutions to address root cause problems
- Strong analytical and reconciliation skills; invests time and energy into learning
- Ability to prioritize, independently manage workload and keep up with a dynamically changing company
- Strong written, oral, and facilitation skills
- Excellent listener and empathetic to individuals’ concerns and direct necessary follow-up actions
- Relates to others with candor, openness and transparency, building trust across multiple stakeholder groups with a demonstrated ability to influence at all levels of the organization
- Ability to share learning with others; conveys information in understandable terms at all levels of the organization
- Tactful communication in resolving issues/discrepancies
- High integrity, promoting trust in all actions
- Creative and change-oriented; high degree of curiosity
- Highly motivated and results driven self-starter with strong initiative
- Excellent organizational skills
- High degree of accuracy and attention to detail
- High quality of work output
- Ability to travel as business needs required
Benefits of Working at Darigold:
We understand that as an employee, benefits that support you and your family in and out of work are important. We’re proud to offer eligible positions a competitive total rewards package that includes:
- 401k with competitive employer matching
- Comprehensive medical, dental & vision benefits
- Employer paid life & disability coverage
- Paid time off and paid holidays
- 8 weeks paid parental leave
- Education assistance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible hybrid working arrangement where applies (up to 2 days/week after initial 90 days and approval by hiring manager and HR)
- Access to great dairy products & participation in our employee butter purchase program
- Compensation range: $25.15/hour - $37.71/hour (individual wage based on previous experience, knowledge and skills)
Our Commitment to Diversity:
Achieving our vision to Lead Dairy Forward requires cultivating and supporting a team with varying backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We are committed to providing a workplace based on mutual respect where all employees feel included and can bring their best and authentic selves to work every day. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Affirmative Action Employer. We welcome all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, marital status, creed, religion, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. As a condition of employment applicants offered a role will be required to successfully pass our pre-employment background screen, receive a negative drug screen result & confirm eligibility to work in the U.S. We participate in E-Verify - please follow the links for details, English / Spanish & view our Right to Work Statement, English / Spanish.
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