Cash Application Specialist

This is where your insights influence change. As a member of the Baxter Finance team, you have the critical thinking and analytical mindset that allows you to translate data into meaningful, actionable insights that help teams learn and adapt along the way. We guide our internal partners to understand financial opportunities or realities that move Baxter forward and closer to our mission to save and sustain lives. While you often work independently with your cross-functional team, you always have the greater finance organization to lean on for support and career mentoring. Support for Parents, Continuing Education/ Professional Development, Employee Heath & Well-Being Benefits, Paid Time Off, 2 Days a Year to Volunteer. This is where your work makes a difference. At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond. Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results. Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. Summary: The Cash Application Specialist is responsible for processing electronic and manual payments in multiple currencies and applying them to appropriate accounts, initiating auto cash runs, problem resolution and processing of automation exceptions around the remittance and cash application functions. Essential Duties & Responsibilities: Retrieve EFT, ACH payment information received and input and process remittances against customer accounts and invoices. Run/monitor the auto cash application routines. Accurately balance deposits received and accounts receivable in the ERP. Identify short-pays or discounts taken and request credit notes if applicable. Apply and record unapplied cash to customer accounts and monitor unapplied cash levels. Collaborate with the Customer or the Accounts Receivable team as necessary to ensure cash is appropriately applied to open invoices. Resolve issues associated with cash posting by working with both external and internal parties. Manage banking relationships for specific countries or customer groups within the area of responsibility, and collaboratively with the Treasury team responsible for banking relationships. Partner with Accounts Receivable and Customers to improve the information detail and quality of remittance advices to increase cash application accuracy. Develop an understanding of the technologies involved in the end to end process, and identify opportunities for improvement. Monitor cash application errors and automation exceptions and work with the Cash Application Team Lead and IT partners to eradicate the root cause of errors and improve the automation level of the cash application process. Facilitate any refunds due to client through ERP. Keep up to date and develop process specific competencies and technical skills. Support the continuous improvement projects as assigned by the Cash Application Team Lead.