Senior Accountant, Accounts Receivables

About AbbVie

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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

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AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines 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, eye care, virology, women's health, and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetic portfolio.

Under the supervision of the Credit Manager, the Senior Accountant AR is responsible for the application of the credit policies and collection procedures established to minimize the past due and delinquency percentages of accounts receivable. The Senior Accountant AR establishes relationships with customers and works closely with the Customer Service, Trade Team and Commercial teams to respond faster to customers' requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

Accounting:

• Perform month-end duties, including preparing journal entries following SOX requirement.
• General ledger account reconciliation and review.
• Prepare supporting documentation for SOX, External and Internal audit requirements.
• Act as a financial liaison between the Customer Service, Trade team, Group Purchasing organization (GPO) and other departments to assist in ad hoc projects and to analyze monthly performance.

Credit and Collection:

• Prepare month-end journal entries and reconciliation for AR, Trade allowance, Billbacks and Rebates.
• Prepare Netting/write off Journal entries relating to bad debt, Trade allowance, chargebacks and over the counter deductions.
• Participate to the bad debt accruals and cash discount accruals review.
• Responsible for reconciliation and interaction with Wholesalers
• Perform risk and financial statement analyses for new customers.
• Monitor and review credit granting for new and existing clients, update process and recommend updates/changes as required.
• Assist in the review of customer master changes and new customer set up.
• Support development and standardization of AbbVie's corporate credit policy
• Ensure compliance with AbbVie's corporate credit policies.
• Support resolution of credit issues with customers
• Monitor and support periodic credit reviews.
• Initiate process improvement and quality reviews to simplify and improve productivity.
• Identify, mitigate, and monitor risks in credit function.

Qualifications:

• Education/Experience Required:
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business, or a related field.
• 5-7 years of experience.
• Experience with credit scoring systems preferred.
• Proficient in reading/interpreting financial statements for the purpose of underwriting
• credit.
• Experience with SAP.

Essential Skills & Abilities:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage relationships, both internally and externally.
• Audit background, problem-solving and customer service skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

AbbVie strives to provide a French working environment for its employees in Quebec. Although as part of its francization program has taken all reasonable steps to avoid imposing the following requirement, advanced amount of knowledge of English / Fluency in English is an essential requirement for the position of Senior Accountant, Accounts Receivables including, but not limited to, for the following reasons:

1. English speaking employees outside the province of Quebec.
2. English speaking clients outside the province of Quebec.
3. Anglophone region outside the province of Quebec.

Systems:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel.
• SAP and order-to-cash activities and reporting.

Business Knowledge:

• Business process, corporate policy (compliance and completeness) and financial data
• flows.
• Credit management.

Technical Knowledge

• Financial modeling.
• Accounting fundamentals.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities to apply.

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