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Job Description
The Role and Impact As a Financial Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing accounts receivable processes and ensuring timely cash collections from a designated portfolio of customers. You will manage reconciliations, address payment disputes, and collaboratively work to optimize workflows and enhance operational efficiency. Your contributions will directly impact Intel's financial performance by minimizing delinquencies and driving process improvements.
Business Group The Finance organization at Intel focuses on delivering financial planning, management, and operational excellence to support Intel's strategic goals. Within this group, the East Collections and AR Team is dedicated to managing customer accounts, ensuring adherence to payment terms, and driving cash collection performance. The team works closely with internal business units and external partners to foster strong financial discipline and operational efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform full cycle of Accounts Receivable activities with Intel customers adhering to agreed payment terms. Independently manage cash collection for a subset of portfolio.
- Timely reconcile AR statement and follow up payment schedule to ensure collection performance meet company's KPI.
- Detect and resolve disputes efficiently hence to minimize exposure to large or long past due. Partner with counterparts to escalate issues which may cause material delinquencies.
- Identify roadblocks and areas of improvements in order to cash process and customer's payment process and take effective actions to streamline process through partnering and influencing.
- Build valued partnership with customer's finance, Accounts Payable, procurement team and internal business teams such as Sales, Customer Operations, Logistics etc.
- Understand collection indicators, account trends of own portfolio and provide regular update to management. Efficiently manage close cycles and reporting activities.
- Implement AI or automation solution to enhance process efficiency and productivity.
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Qualifications
- Relevant work experience in finance or business operations.
- Communication and Language Skills: Effectively interacting with customers and internal teams. Fluency in English and Japanese is mandatory..
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in MS Office and SAP; Demonstrated success in implementing AI or automation solutions (e.g., generative AI, Power Apps, UiPath, KNIME, Python, etc.) with proven business impact is a significant advantage.
- Attention to Detail: Accuracy in managing financial records and invoices.
- Negotiation Skills: Handling overdue payments and negotiating payment plans and influencing process enhancement on customer side.
- Analytical Thinking: Assessing payment trends and identifying risks.
- Problem Solving: Ability to develop multiple solutions to address root causes and drive stakeholder alignment and implementation
- Time Management: Managing multiple accounts and deadlines efficiently.
- Accountability and Commitment: Takes ownership of results and follows through on commitments to deliver quality outcomes within agreed timelines
- Self-Motivation and Initiative: Proactively identifies opportunities and takes prompt action to drive improvements without being asked.
