Accounts Receivable Specialist Benelux

Main Purpose of the role:

Responsible for payment collections to ensure all past due amounts are collected while preventing the aging of current balances. Responsible for all customer communications (including dunning, refunds and statements) and dispute resolution to ensure all customer portfolios are in compliance with established payment and credit terms.

Main Tasks:

Contact Customers to pursue for payment

Reviews all customer AR balances to ensure billing/invoice and payment accuracy.

Serve as main contact on all accounting aspects of the customers account.

Exhibit an understanding of the company capabilities and service and effectively communicate all policies and terms to the customer.

Provides regular two-way communication between the customer and ZIM Logistics to provide strong representation and set proper customer expectations.

Act as Liaison between customer and Dispute team to facilitate timely resolution and payment

Investigate and recommend solutions to clear all service failures and other issues that may prevent prompt payment from being received and applied.

Handles the customers concerns by escalating the customers complaints, disputes or inquiries to the appropriate internal departments or to management as needed.

Issue timely and complete account statements.

Provide invoices and detail for invoices

Provide the Credit and Collection management staff with regular input on all account activity, including status and call reports on a weekly basis.

Coordinate dunning process

Contact customers to obtain information like email or phone

Ensure customers paying to correct bank account

Ensure customers paying to correct name in compliance with banking requirements

Minimum of three years of collections/AR/industry and/or related experience

Strong knowledge of commercial collections experience

Experience in the Shipping Industry preferred

Accounting software - SAP knowledge in FI/CO)