Accounts Receivable Executive

DKSH; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 36,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Malaysia, DKSH, is looking for an Accounts Receivable Executive. This role involves managing customer accounts, ensuring timely collections, and improving financial health. The ideal candidate should have strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and relevant qualifications. Join a dynamic team that contributes to enriching lives through quality services.

Qualifications

• Up to 2 years' experience in accounts receivable is preferred.
• Fluency in local language and English, both written and spoken.
• Experience handling high volume customer accounts is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Record all accounts receivable transactions for timely closing.
• Prepare and review debtor aging reports and follow up on payments.
• Work closely with customers to ensure timely recovery of payments.

Skills

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Problem-solving

Education

Professional qualification in Business Admin, Finance or related discipline

Tools

SAP

Excel

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About DKSH

DKSH's purpose is to enrich people's lives by providing access to goods, services, and insights. United by our vision to be the trusted partner, we help companies grow in Asia and beyond across our Business Units Consumer Goods, Healthcare, Performance Materials, and Technology.

Delivering life-saving drugs to hospitals, bringing high-quality products to remote villages, installing technology that raises living standards, and providing new formulations for healthcare products that make life easier. These are just a few examples of how DKSH touches people's lives around the clock. We do this while helping our clients and customers grow by providing services including sourcing, market insights, marketing and sales, eCommerce, distribution and logistics as well as after-sales services.

Listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange, DKSH operates in 36 markets with 33,100 specialists, generating net sales of CHF 11.1 billion in 2021. Founded by Swiss entrepreneurs in 1865, we have been deeply rooted in Asia Pacific for over 150 years.


Why It's Great to Work at DKSH

Join a purpose-driven company and help enrich people's lives every day. We provide reliable access to high-quality products and services, like COVID-19 vaccines, and create sustainable value for all our stakeholders, generate jobs, and give back to society. Founded over 150 years ago in Asia by three Swiss traders, DKSH still maintains the same entrepreneurial mindset. Be part of our diverse team of more than 33,000 people working in 36 markets across the globe. You will learn and develop both professionally and personally in a modern environment offering hybrid work arrangements. Come and meet our energetic, passionate, and purposeful team and be part of something big.

Company description:

About DKSH

DKSH's purpose is to enrich people's lives by providing access to goods, services, and insights. United by our vision to be the trusted partner, we help companies grow in Asia and beyond across our Business Units Consumer Goods, Healthcare, Performance Materials, and Technology.

Delivering life-saving drugs to hospitals, bringing high-quality products to remote villages, installing technology that raises living standards, and providing new formulations for healthcare products that make life easier. These are just a few examples of how DKSH touches people's lives around the clock. We do this while helping our clients and customers grow by providing services including sourcing, market insights, marketing and sales, eCommerce, distribution and logistics as well as after-sales services.

Listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange, DKSH operates in 36 markets with 33,100 specialists, generating net sales of CHF 11.1 billion in 2021. Founded by Swiss entrepreneurs in 1865, we have been deeply rooted in Asia Pacific for over 150 years.


Why It's Great to Work at DKSH

Join a purpose-driven company and help enrich people's lives every day. We provide reliable access to high-quality products and services, like COVID-19 vaccines, and create sustainable value for all our stakeholders, generate jobs, and give back to society. Founded over 150 years ago in Asia by three Swiss traders, DKSH still maintains the same entrepreneurial mindset. Be part of our diverse team of more than 33,000 people working in 36 markets across the globe. You will learn and develop both professionally and personally in a modern environment offering hybrid work arrangements. Come and meet our energetic, passionate, and purposeful team and be part of something big.

Job description:

Job Summary

The role supports accounts receivable collections, accounting, reconciliation and reporting, ensuring customer ledgers are maintained and reconciled on an ongoing basis. The successful candidate will demonstrate an analytical mindset, attention to detail, and strong interpersonal skills to manage customer relationships and internal stakeholder expectations. They will actively contribute to improving cash flow, reducing aged debt, and supporting overall financial health and transparency of the organization.

General Responsibilities

• Record all accounts receivable and collection transactions to ensure timely and accurate monthly and yearly accounts receivable closing.
• Prepare and review debtor aging reports, match receipts against invoices and aged balances.
• Follow up on payments due, solve disputes and provide clarifications to debtors to ensure timely collections
• Send debtors' confirmations and confirm intercompany balances with the relevant countries for month-end closing purposes
• Respond to queries and clarifications to internal stakeholders on debtors' outstanding balances, collections, etc.
• Work closely with customers/build relationship with customers on collections and reconciliation of balances to ensure accurate and timely recovery of payments
• Support customer rebate calculations and process approved amounts to customer ledgers
• Provide administrative support with the preparation of the monthly accounts receivable status reports, collection status and receivables analysis (e.g. days' sales outstanding, receivables turnover, etc.) for accountability purposes.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation and compliance with company policies and audit requirements.
• Create/update new customers using Customer creation form portal
• Forecasting of cash collections & Tactical cash flow forecast with minimum variances.

Functional Skills and Knowledge

• Demonstrate experience in the accounts receivable function including managing the accounts receivable ledger, internal and external customer management and issue resolution.
• Previous experience with high volume customer accounts with complex rebate and claims.
• Demonstrate strong attention to detail, strong analytical and reconciliation skills.
• Demonstrate proficiencies in office productivity tools (e.g. Excel, Word and PowerPoint), previous SAP experience is highly recommended.
• Demonstrate fluency in local language and ideally in English, both written and spoken
• Fluent oral and written English
• Drive to follow and resolve issues through to the end - sense of accountability
• Passionately results oriented with high sense of responsibility
• High attention to detail
• Act with a sense of urgency
• Able to work autonomously

Education

• Professional qualification in Business Admin, Finance or a related discipline
• Up to 2 years' experience

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DKSH’s purpose is to enrich people’s lives. For nearly 160 years, we have been marketing, selling, and

distributing high-quality products and brands for multinational and Fortune 500 companies. Through our

Business Units Consumer Goods, Healthcare, Performance Materials, and Technology, we deliver

sustainable growth for our partners. We contribute to improving the quality of life for our employees and

people in the local communities in which we operate. Headquartered in Switzerland, DKSH is publicly

listed and operates in 36 markets across Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America. We employ over

29,000 specialists and produced net sales of CHF 11.1 billion in 2023.

DKSH’s purpose is to enrich people’s lives. For nearly 160 years, we have been marketing, selling, and

distributing high-quality products and brands for multinational and Fortune 500 companies. Through our

Business Units Consumer Goods, Healthcare, Performance Materials, and Technology, we deliver

sustainable growth for our partners. We contribute to improving the quality of life for our employees and

people in the local communities in which we operate. Headquartered in Switzerland, DKSH is publicly

listed and operates in 36 markets across Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America. We employ over

29,000 specialists and produced net sales of CHF 11.1 billion in 2023.

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