Accounts Receivable Agent

**How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?**:
The main object and purpose of the Accounts Receivable Agent position is to support Sales and Customer Service teams by making it possible to provide credit services to customers, maintain good relationships with them and contribute to the financial health of Air Liquide Canada’s organization, while promoting ALC’s safety and quality objectives.
**1. Ensures collection of accounts**:Maintains the outstanding accounts receivable at 40 days or less. Reviews delinquent accounts and speaks with customers by telephone to collect overdue amounts. Negotiates reimbursement methods and terms with customers. Types and mails form letters to customers to encourage payment of delinquent accounts. Coordinates with a third party to facilitate the collection efforts of the overdue account.

**3. Follows up on customer records**:Records information about financial status of customers and status of collection efforts. Makes daily entries into Customer accounts for checks and materials received. Each month, reconciles and follows-up accounts to determine and improve customers’ performance. Confers and consults with the Sales team as required.

**4. Quality / Safety**:Makes sure that all customer payments are credited accurately, and on a timely basis. Promotes ALC safety objectives. Knows and respects procedures related to the group as indicated in the ALC Quality Manual. Ensures that proper corrective and preventive measures are in place for addressing customer issues or complaints.

**5. Cash Flow**:Enters invoice payments in customer records and makes bank deposits.

**6. Maintains relationships with customers**:Develops a strategy to secure customers’ loyalty.

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**Are you a MATCH?**:
**EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS**:

- **Diploma**:post-secondary diploma, college degree in administration or a related field of knowledge
- **Training**:quality system (ISO), safety
- **Knowledge**:basic accounting principles, bilingualism when required, computer systems, MS Office
- **Experience**:3 years of experience in the industrial sector

**OTHER COMPETENCIES**:
**1. Planning Skills**:Defines objectives and the means to achieve them, determines all required resources, anticipates future situations and establishes work plans, efficiently allocates or makes use of available resources, acts according to plans and establishes priorities, uses efficient methods, systems and work tools.

**2. Problem-Solving**:Identifies problem situations within an appropriate time frame, develops several alternative solutions to problems, analyses situations and highlights important issues, suggests adequate, valuable and feasible solutions.

**3. Strong Interpersonal Skills**:Gets to know others and forms relationships, maintains very good relationships with colleagues, respects the ideas and opinions of others.

**4. Decision-making skills**:Considers all factors before making a decision, makes quick decisions when necessary, accepts consequences and risks involved.

**5. Customer Oriented and Service-Driven**:Precisely answers customer requests, is attentive to customers, respects commitments towards customers, initiates new ideas in order to meet customer expectations.

**6. Team Player**:Shares knowledge and experience, cooperates and makes self available, listens, gathers information, takes into consideration the needs, ideas, opinions of others.

**Our Differences make our Performance
**At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.