Specialist, Accounting
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North Chicago, IL
- Corporate
- Full-time
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.
Purpose
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The Specialist, Accounting position reports to the Credit and Collection Manager and will manage the accounts receivable of a number of customer accounts. This position will review data using system-generated reports and perform timely, accurate and complete account reviews, collections activities and account maintenance for assigned accounts.
Responsibilities
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- With regular advice / coordination from Team Leader and with guidance/review by Manager, perform order releases on a timely basis and in a manner that protects AbbVie assets.
- Identifies root causes of complex payment issues and trends. Assist Team Leader in preparation of compelling data presentations that efficiently communicate these trends to Manager or Team Leader.
- Resolves past-due invoices and customer claims on a timely basis, including proactive identification of account issues.
- Requires high degree of communicative ability due to multi-functional issues. Participation on inter-departmental teams with periodic advice/coordination from Team Leader or Manager.
- Operates independently within defined scope of responsibility under regular supervision. Interacts with external and internal customers (i.e. Sales, Contract Marketing and Customer Service) at the peer and/or supervisory level.
- DSO and collection of unearned discounts. Short term and long term cash flow. Risk/Bad debt expense.
- Customer relationship management (both internal and external).
- Responsible for compliance with applicable policies and procedures.
- Participates in department and selected cross-functional process improvement teams.
- Failure to achieve results may result in adverse impact on customer relationships or loss of limited cash flow to AbbVie.
- Effectively utilizes and maintains AbbVie information systems as needed in the analysis and resolution of customer issues (including SAP, Cognos, and various other systems).
- High school graduation required.
- At least 2 years of experience in Accounting, Receivables or Customer Service. Less than two years of experience may be acceptable with a Bachelor’s degree.
- Preferred:
Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting or business management.
Previous experience using SAP and advanced Excel skills are strongly preferred.
Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:
The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
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