Senior Specialist - Finance

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Your Role: Senior Specialist Finance
 

The role of Senior Specialist Finance is to ensure the efficient and accurate execution of Order-to-Cash (O2C) processes, focusing on order management, collections, and customer experience. This position requires a high level of professional communication in Dutch and French, ensuring that customer accounts are managed effectively while maintaining strict adherence to Elanco’s global policies and internal controls.

Your Responsibilities:

• Order & Complaint Management: Effectively process all manual orders (phone, fax, email) and customer complaints, ensuring priority for urgent requests within agreed KPIs to deliver a positive customer experience.
• Financial Analysis: Analyze account discrepancies and sales interface issues (Idocs) to ensure customer accounts are enabled for payment and sales orders flow correctly.
• Collections & Disputes: Analyze outstanding customer aging to identify priorities. Engage proactively with customers via phone or email to prompt collections and resolve disputes regarding billings, credits, or payments.
• Billing & Reporting: Manage the billing process and review key metrics/KPIs, communicating results to stakeholders to ensure operational excellence.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Act as the "go-to" information resource for O2C Customer Service queries and support global/regional projects aimed at improving process efficiency.
• Team Support: Demonstrate flexibility by providing cover for team members and training new joiners to maintain a high-performing GBS environment.
• Continuous Improvement: Demonstrate a strong CI-oriented mindset, actively working with core team members and the Global O2C team to identify and drive process enhancements.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal customers, business partners, and LSP (Logistics Service Provider) team members.
• Product Knowledge: Maintain a solid understanding of Elanco’s product lines within the assigned markets to better serve customer needs.
• Compliance Culture: Foster a strong compliance-oriented mindset, ensuring all activities align with SOx and other internal control requirements.
• Documentation: Maintain and utilize process documentation and training materials to ensure operations are fully compliant and audit-ready.
• Audit Support: Assist internal and external auditors by providing requested data and explanations for O2C procedures and materials.

What You Need to Succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

• Education: University degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or equivalent work experience.
• Language Skills:
  • Dutch: Fluent (C1/Native).
  • French: Minimum B2 level.
  • English: Proficient/Fluent (mandatory for global communication).
• Soft Skills: Ability to handle complexity, strong analytical skills with attention to detail, and the ability to respond empathetically to customer needs.

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