Cash Application Specialist

**LOCATION**:
Markham, Ontario

**DEPARTMENT**:
Accounting/Finance

**Clover Leaf Seafoods**

**Who We Are**

For over 100 years, Clover Leaf and Brunswick have delivered delicious, healthy, and affordable canned seafood to consumers. Today, as the leading branded marketer of canned seafood in Canada, we’re expanding our business, and there’s never been a better time to join our team and grow along with us.

When you join Clover Leaf Seafoods Corp., you become part of a company that, together with our parent company, Bumble Bee Seafoods, is working hard to find new ways to protect the ocean and those that rely on it. From fishers to our employees, to customers, consumers, and to the communities we serve, we base our actions on shared, transparent values that hold us accountable to each other and the world.

When you join Clover Leaf Seafoods, you become an integral part of a tight-knit team. You’ll be encouraged, empowered, and challenged to be your best self through ongoing professional development in an inclusive environment.

**About the Role**

Under the guidance of the Credit, Collections, and Claims Supervisor (CCCS), the Cash Application Specialist (CAS) plays a crucial role in ensuring all incoming cash receipts are posted in a timely manner. The CAS will be relied upon to accurately and efficiently record and reconcile inbound payments, ensuring customer trade receivable accounts and cash ledgers are always up to date.

**What You’ll Do Here**
- Process and reconcile the accounts receivable sub-ledger, bank deposits, and remittances.
- This includes researching, reviewing, identifying, and resolving complex payment discrepancies related to cash discounts, promotion allowances, and logistics claims, as required.
- Post daily receipts from multiple bank accounts in various payment types such as wires, ACH, and checks (including customer credit memos).
- Capture various customer dispute claims which will be processed further in the Trade Promotion Management (TPM) software.
- In this new procedure, the CAS will be responsible for clearing the Bank Suspense account where customer receipts that the system are unable to find matches automatically reside.
- Provide continuous feedback on the new system towards potential process improvements
- Organize remittance advices and all supporting invoices related to various promotional and logistics claims for each customer
- Assists with Accounts Receivable inbox management which includes organization of customer subfolders and sorting of claim supporting documents.
- Work closely and provide assistance to the Deduction team in clearing non-trade Logistics claims in ECC.
- Assist the Deduction team in clearing trade promotion-related claims.
- Run related reports on as needed basis

***What You Need to Succeed**
- Completed Post-Secondary School certification, diploma or degree.
- Exposure to multi-currency environments.
- Experience in a computerized, and automated, work environment.
- This includes strong technical skills in Microsoft Office Applications, specifically Excel & Word.
- Experience in SAP systems, or comparable ERP systems.
- Excellent communication skills in both verbal and written English.
- Strong organizational abilities with effective time management skills
- Ability to determine cause of issues and propose acceptable solutions
- Proven to be results orientation, with a good attention to detail, and an ability to handle multiple priorities and meet deadlines on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.

**What we offer**
- Engaging and agile workplace culture, collaborative and inclusive teams
- Investing in our people through a variety of learning and development programs such as GROW and LEAD
- A variety of wellness benefits, access to virtual health care, 100% employer-paid health and dental premiums, Employee Assistance Program, and more.
- Commitment to resource sustainability
- Tuition reimbursement opportunities
- Recognition and rewards through our programs
- Company matching pension plan

Clover Leaf Seafood fosters diversity, inclusion and belonging within and across our organization. We welcome all to apply, including women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity.
- Canadian Roots. Passionate about Seafood. Clover Leaf Seafoods Corp first captured the flavour of the sea way back in 1871 when we founded the first cannery on the Fraser River in British Columbia. Since then, we’ve expanded operations nationwide so we can provide delicious, nutritious seafood for all Canadians. When you join Clover Leaf Seafoods, Bumble Bee Seafoods International or Connors Bros., you become part of a company that, together with our parent company, Bumble Bee Seafoods, is working hard to find new ways to protect the ocean and those that rely on it. From fishers to our employees, to customers, consumers, and to the communities we serve, we base our actions on shared