Uniphar Medtech is Looking For Accounts Receivable Specialist at Northern Cross, County Dublin Full Time

Uniphar Background

Uniphar Group is a rapidly expanding diversified healthcare services business with a global footprint and a proud heritage in Ireland. Since Uniphar became a publicly listed company in 2019, the Group has grown organically and through a series of strategic acquisitions, which continue to strengthen Uniphar’s international reach. With a workforce of more than 3,000 spread across Ireland, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the Nordics, Benelux, Germany and the USA, Uniphar is a trusted global partner to pharma and medtech manufacturers, working to improve patient access to medicines and treatments around the world.

Uniphar provides outsourced and specialised services to its clients, leveraging the strong relationships with 200+ of the world’s best known pharmaco-medical manufacturers across multiple geographies, enabled by our cutting-edge digital technology and our expert teams. Uniphar is organised into three key divisions; Supply Chain & Retail, Commercial & Clinical (Med Tech / Pharma) and Product Access.

C&C Medtech

C&C Medtech, operating as Uniphar Medtech is a pan-European medical device distributor. With presence across 15 markets, Uniphar Medtech represents global leading medical device manufacturers across a multitude of specialities. Uniphar Medtech offers training, education and supports customers through dedicated clinical specialists across Sales & Technical Service, Clinical IT, Clinical Applications, Training and Education and Customer Service.

A total solutions provider, each of the 9 brands within C&C Medtech compete under their individual brand identity and respective specialities. Uniphar Medtech is the umbrella structure for all 9 brands and in addition incorporates centralised support functions across QCRA, HR, Marketing, Finance, Operational Excellence, IT, Logistics and Warehousing.

With more than 400 employees, the team within C&C Medtech is a committed, highly trained and experienced group of professionals with long standing relationships within the industry.

The role

Reporting to the Team Leader, the successful candidate will work as part of the Uniphar Medtech Finance Team. The primary purpose of the role is to ensure that all customers are billed, receipts matched and that all customer and bank accounts are reconciled as required

Key Outcomes

Process customer receipts (cash and EFT) and apply cash in debtors ledger

Receive cheques, lodge to bank and ensure accurate recording in the general and debtors ledger

Manage any unapplied cash in a timely manner

Request cash remittances from customers

Process and issue credit notes (stock and GL), fully recording reason and coding accurately to the debtors and general ledger

Print and dispatch customer statements

Reconcile debtors accounts, matching receipts in a timely manner to ensure ledger is up to date

Reconcile bank accounts on a weekly basis (or more frequently as required)

Close reconciling items in a timely manner

Escalate any material open items to the Team Leader for resolution

Prepare monthly AR reports for the business as required e.g. top 10 customers by sales, aged debtors, DSO

Maintain solid audit trail on customer query/debt resolution in event that issues are escalated

Prepare weekly cash report for approval by RCM for submission to group

Liaise closely with the business on any exceptions to payment terms and other credit issues

Respond to customer requests /queries in a timely fashion to build customer satisfaction

Develops and maintains productive working relationship with key finance team and sales team both internal and external stakeholders

Plan work load effectively

Fully contribute to all finance team meetings

Drive own development in conjunction with line manager

Continually strive to simplify and standardise accounts payable processes

Participate in process improvement initiatives. Strive towards “best-in-class” aligned to company objectives

Active engagement, as required, as new systems & accounting tools are rolled out

Support any initiatives e.g. working capital optimisation

Key Skills & Experiences

2-3 years accounts receivable experience

Experience of, and ability to work to tight deadlines

Experience in working in a service driven, customer focused environment

Ability to work in a deadline driven environment

Very detail conscious, accurate and precise

Excellent organisation skills with ability to multi-task and prioritise workload

Good telephone manner.

Level headed with ability to resolve issues

Team player with a positive “can do” attitude. Flexibility to “do what it takes” to get job done

Culture at Uniphar

We pride ourselves in being truly entrepreneurial, innovative, collaborative, with a strong problem-solving ethos. We have built working relationships which span decades with many of the world’s largest pharma and medtech companies. We believe that this is because we know how to build a relationship of trust with our partners – we put our customers and their patients at the heart of what we do and treat them with integrity and respect. Everything Uniphar does is enabled by our people. As we continue to grow domestically and internationally, we become more diverse. This rich diversity fuels our business and enriches our culture.