OTC Associate - FBN

Overview

Nomad Foods was formed in 2015 and with revenues of €2.9bn is the largest frozen food company in Europe. Nomad owns a portfolio of leading brands including Birds Eye, Findus and iglo, supplemented in 2018 with the purchase of Goodfellas Pizza and Aunt Bessie’s, and in 2021 with the purchase of Ledo and Frikom.

We manufacture and distribute a range of branded frozen food products across 22 European countries with the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Sweden and France representing our five largest markets.

The long-term goal of Nomad is to develop a global portfolio of best-in-class food brands by growing organically and through strategic M&A.

We are proposing that our new Shared Finance Centre will house both our Financial Accounting teams and our Financial Planning and Analysis Centre of Expertise.

Our vision is to build trusted, equal partnerships through the delivery of timely and valuable services that will ensure growth and business success for Nomad Foods. The team will deliver a step change in performance through a relentless focus on excellence in execution and continuous improvement, enabling us to simplify and standardise our processes and procedures, which in turn, enables quality decision-making, delights our customers and supports Nomad Food’s business objectives.

The Shared Finance Centre will be an outstanding place to work for finance professionals, with new and exciting opportunities to develop careers and by being recognised alongside the very best by our people.

The purpose of this position is to undertake the day-to-day O2C activities including managing the accounts receivable ledger, performing customer reconciliations, payment allocation, processing and resolving customer queries.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all assigned accounts are continually reconciled, credits applied and are properly controlled
• Applying all payments and credits accurately to accounts
• Ensuring that any cash collection problems are promptly reported and appropriate action (e.g. putting accounts on hold) is taken. Monitoring and reviewing credit limits
• Ensure the Customer Master Data is current, accurate and complete at all times
• Managing relationship with customers in their day-to-day activities ensuring that all requests made by customers (claims / deductions / price queries) are resolved in a timely manner, including matching of customer claims against relevant rebates and/or promotional accruals
• Understanding the department and company’s KPIs and deadlines. Support the implementation of process improvement across the team
• Promptly contact customers to confirm payments will be received in line with the set payment terms and perform follow up calls when required should funds not materialise
• Liaising with the wider Accounts Receivables / O2C team to raise claim related credit notes and to resolve all outstanding Accounts Receivable claims and deductions
• Maintain close working relationship with the sales team (Key Account/Reps/Agents), the Sale Manager, Logistics and Marketing to ensure the best service is delivered
• Perform relevant SOX controls and ensuring they are complete, reviewed and signed off in a timely manner
• Assist with internal and external audit requests related to customer deductions and claims

Qualifications

Essential

• Prior experience in O2C
• Experience in resolving customer rebate / claims
• Experience of posting and accounting specifically related to payments and collections
• Computer skills including the ability to operate
• Computerised accounting, spreadsheet (Excel), and email (Outlook) at a proficient level
• An understanding of Account Receivable and credit control processing activities
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Positive “can do” attitude
• Proactive and use own initiative
• Work alone as well as part of a team

Desirable

• FMCG Accounts Receivable experience
• SAP experience
• Data entry experience