Accelerate to Leadership Program 2020 - Accounting Lead Assistant - Global Business Services

Job Description

Overview

Aramark (NYSE: ARMK) is in the customer service business across food, facilities and uniforms, wherever people work, learn, recover, and play. United by a passion to serve, our more than 270,000 employees deliver experiences that enrich and nourish the lives of millions of people in 22 countries around the world every day. Aramark is recognized among the Most Admired Companies by FORTUNE and the World’s Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute. Learn more at www.aramark.com or connect with us on Facebook and Twitter.

Description

We Dream. We Do. We’re actively looking for new dreamers and doers to join our Accelerate to Leadership (A2L) Program. Our A2L program is an early career leadership development program that targets recent college graduates, offering career tracks that provide accelerated development, training, and on-the-job learning nationally across our 10 lines of business. Selected candidates will be placed into real leadership roles with Aramark while receiving structured program activities and developmental experiences tailored to their career track, such as financial ownership and people management. For the thousands of students and recent grads that call Aramark home, we provide a place to grow, advance and touch lives across a variety of exciting industries and locations. Imagine your impact.

Functional Career Track: As an A2L participant within this career track, you will start your career in a position within finance, marketing, human resources, information technology or other essential functional departments. As an A2L, your responsibilities may include assisting with the completion of reports, research, and attendance in meetings and daily duties to support your designated functional team. Special projects and other tasks may be assigned or requested. You will often work within a corporate setting which requires high professionalism and autonomy to thrive within the functional career track to meet the demands of the company.

Responsibilities:

• Providing customer service regarding collection issues, process customer refunds, process and review account adjustments, resolve client discrepancies and short payments. Responsible for monitoring and maintaining assigned accounts- Customer calls, account adjustments, small balance write off, customer reconciliations and processing credit memos.
• Accountable for reducing delinquency for assigned accounts
• Perform other assigned tasks and duties necessary to support the Accounting Department
• Establish and maintain effective and cooperative working relationships with clients and Account Managers
• Weekly and monthly reporting to direct supervisor
• Reconcile customer disputes as they pertain to payment of outstanding balances that are due
• Participate in team planning meetings
• Meet defined department goals and activity metrics

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree required. (Must graduate between December 2019 – August 2020 to be eligible for the FY20 A2L Program)There are two start dates for the 2020 Program: February 19, 2020 and July 16, 2020. All degree requirements must be completed prior to the start date of the program (including any final internship requirements).
• Strong organizational and time management skills required.
• Leadership skills, inclusive of supervisory responsibilities, team lead in a club/organization, and/or project management.
• The ability to communicate in an appropriate, clear, and concise manner with customers, clients, employees and leadership.
• The ability to manage through change and ambiguity in a fast pace environment.
• Cost control, budget responsibilities or inventory management experience desired.
• Ability to work flexible hours, which may include nights, weekends or holidays according to business need.
• Ability / openness to relocation according to program / business need
• Valid driver’s license preferred
• Experience with and knowledge of all Microsoft Office applications
• Must be authorized to work in the United States and not require work authorization sponsorship by Aramark for this position now or in the future