Accounting Professional

About the role

Siemens Healthineers is seeking a highly motivated Accounting Professional – Accounts Receivable to support the North America Customer Finance organization. This role oversees and supports complex Accounts Receivable, cash application, account reconciliation, clearing, and related accounting activities.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily Accounts Receivable and cash application activities, including payment review, application, reconciliation, exception handling, and customer account clearing.
• Review bank files, SAP downloads, automated postings, RPA outputs, and cash application results to validate accuracy, completeness, and timely processing.
• Research, analyze, and resolve complex customer account discrepancies, including unapplied cash, miscellaneous credits, short payments, overpayments, duplicate payments, and payment allocation issues.
• Prepare, review, and post journal entries, intercompany transfers, reclassifications, accruals, and related accounting transactions in accordance with policy and approval requirements.
• Support month-end close activities for Accounts Receivable, including account reconciliations, reporting support, aging review, KPI analysis, and timely resolution of open items.
• Serve as a key liaison between Cash Applications, Customer Finance, outsourced service providers, banks, IT, credit and collections, and business operations to resolve issues and support process continuity.
• Analyze operational KPIs, identify trends, investigate root causes of fluctuations, and provide management with clear explanations, risks, and recommended corrective actions.
• Flexibility to support month-end and quarter-end close activities, which may include extended evening hours.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field preferred.
• 5-8 years of relevant experience in Accounts Receivable, cash application, accounting operations, customer account reconciliation, or a related finance function.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles, A/R processes, subledger activity, general ledger postings, customer account clearing, and account reconciliation practices.
• Proficiency with SAP or a comparable ERP financial system; experience with SAP A/R, G/L, line-item display, posting, and clearing transactions is strongly preferred.
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to review complex account activity, identify root causes, resolve discrepancies, interpret KPI trends, and explain financial impacts to stakeholders.
• Comfort presenting financial analysis, operational trends, risks, and recommendations to management or cross-functional audiences, as needed.
• Demonstrated drive to learn, improve processes, and adapt quickly in a changing operational or system environment.
• Strong attention to detail, accuracy, documentation discipline, and ability to meet deadlines in a high-volume finance environment.

Qualifications

• Preferred: MBA, CPA, or other relevant advanced degree or professional certification.
• Experience in healthcare, medical technology, manufacturing, shared services, or large global corporate environment.
• Familiarity with SAP transactions such as FBL5N, FAGLL03, FB01, FB05, and F-03, or comparable ERP functionality.
• Experience partnering with IT, banking partners, outsourced service providers, customer finance teams, credit and collections, and business operations to resolve system, interface, or payment processing issues.
• Demonstrated ability to support process improvement, automation, RPA monitoring, system testing, ERP transition, or post-go-live stabilization activities.