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Job Description

Job Responsibilities & Competencies

In this role as Credit & Collections Specialist, you will be interacting directly with the customer Account Payable departments to progress chase invoice approvals and payments. You will have the greatest responsibility to manage key/critical customer relationships and building collaboration, including establishing team work and handover points between PM, Order Management and Customer Operations teams.

Your responsibilities will be to:

• Proactively tracks and collects Trade Debts & Advanced payments (when cash request is issued)
• Provides visibility and supports follow up of invoice disputes
• Collaborates with the customer to improve invoice approval and payment lead times
• Provides forecast of expected payment of open items for current quarter
• Ensure Receivables Management Tool correctly represents latest status of AR open items
• Increases the speed at which customer?s open items move to cash
• Challenge any failure in the process preventing fast turn-around of invoices, i.e. disputes
• Provide status and trade debtor reports for customer and CT meetings
• Supports achievement of customer Overdue and cash targets
• Supports CTC/Asset Controllers with Sales of Receivables administration, Due date amendments, provide accurate cash forecasting
• Highlights E2E process improvements when inefficiencies exist
• Follow-up liquidation cases (if any)

Qualifications

• Degree in Economics, Finance, Business Administration or any other related field;
• Fluent language skills in Spanish and English. Portuguese is a plus;
• Problem Solving / Organization / Prioritization skills;
• Expert knowledge in MS Excel;
• Relationship building, able to build collaborative partnerships with internal and external teams;
• Business Orientation (Credit / Collections / Sales / OM);
• Working across boundaries and with virtual teams;
• Contract Management knowledge preferable.