Portfolio Manager

Join a team of professionals in the Collections Management department.

The Collections Manager will oversee and manage day-to-day activities of the collection teams. This role is responsible for building and developing an exceptional performing team in driving Credit and Collection operations to manage trade collections while supporting company growth and protecting shareholder value. Initiate and facilitate changes to further improve collection results and increase collections efficiency and effectiveness. Provide monthly metric reporting and analysis on overall collection performance and individual performance of collection resources. Ensure adequate processes are in place to maintain controls and compliance with defined processes.

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for managing a large portfolio of trade accounts receivable across various divisions.
• Partner with business leaders to implement solutions to drive end-to-end process execution.
• Manage high-risk customers, controlling and managing credit exposure and extension in compliance with policy.
• Lead a team of associates, holding them accountable to accelerate collections, minimize AR aging, hold customers to invoice terms and improve portfolio health.
• Credit policy enforcement.
• Monitor AR portfolio and working capital trends to manage issues, accelerate cash flow, identify opportunities for process improvement and provide KPIs, commentary and analysis for senior finance leadership, division management and internal/external auditors.
• Collaborate with Divisional finance and sales management on key credit issues, impacts to the division, portfolio trends, and balance sheet planning.
• Lead special projects affecting Credit and Collections (integrations, system upgrades, audits, policy harmonization).
• Work closely with Order-to-Cash functional leadership, project deployment leaders and IT on business or system issues and process improvement initiatives.
• Train and develop high-performing teams while driving standardization and continuous improvement.

• Bachelor's degree.
• Minimum 10 years of combined experience in accounting, finance or credit management.
• Demonstrated experience in leading a high-performing team, business-oriented teams that have a sense of urgency, a focus on results, and a commitment to quality.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects in a finance environment.
• Experience working on strategic initiatives in cross-functional environments.
• Demonstrated ability to understand goals of a global business and develop an in-depth vision in support of these goals.
• Experience communicating to all levels of the organization.
• Experience building and leading high-performing teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, with the ability to converse at all levels internally across distances and externally with customers.
• Fluent in English, with additional regional language skills preferred.
• Proficient with using SAP and Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Access.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
• Experience managing time demands, incomplete information or unexpected events.
• Solid organizational and planning skills.
• Experience delivering results while leading a large team.
• Additional regional language skills.
• Experience working in a multinational enterprise operating within a matrix organization.
• Experience working in a shared services environment.

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