Trade Receivables Specialist - Lyons Magnus LLC

Lyons Magnus leads the food industry with creativity and innovation, crafting top-quality products across all manufacturing phases, from raw materials to marketing. With over 2,000 diverse items for industrial ingredient and food service sectors, Lyons caters to leading restaurant chains nationally and internationally.

At Lyons, our diverse and talented staff is the heart of our organization. We foster a thriving work environment where employees are engaged in shaping both the company's and their own future.

A key member within the Trade Receivables Team, this team member is responsible for processing short pays and deductions issued by customers relating to invoice-specific matters such as shipping or quality, as well as relative to trade spend items such as billbacks, rebates and promotional items permitted under programs and agreements with the Company

Pay Range: $24.00 - $26.00/hour

Location: Corporate Office - LMW

Schedule: Monday - Friday

Hours: Start time - 6:00 or 7:00 am

Core Responsibilities:

• Support the mission, values, and vision of the Company.
• Perform validation procedures to determine the accuracy of claims submitted relative to trade spend items such as billbacks, rebates, and other promotional programs, as well as for order specific claims
• Coordination and communication across departments (e.g., customer service, sales, warehouse, credit and collections, etc.) to research the basis and validity of customer claims for deductions sufficient to support conclusions to whether credits should be issued to the customer
• Issue credits to settle valid customer deductions and/or request repayments as applicable.
• Utilize customer-based web tools such as Ariba and iTrade as appropriate to source necessary customer data and information.
• Establish and maintain organized workflows relative to your assigned customers to enable timely processing of short pays and deductions.
• Assisting in the cash application of daily ACH, wire, and lockbox payments
• Provide support to contract management
• Support the annual financial statement audit process (working closely with accounting and finance) relative to the processing of claims relating to tradespend and related items
• Other duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Self-starter and highly motivated professional
• Organized and detail oriented
• Highly skilled in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word and Adobe
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Microsoft Dynamics experience preferred

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance, preferred
• Experience with trade spend processing and/or accounts receivable