Account Receivable Manager

Currently we are looking for an Account Receivable Manager 

The Country ARM operates all functions defined in the local country TFCM (Trade Finance Credit Management) policy:

• to support Commercial team in Sales agreement campaign (to approve Sales agreement and Appendixes concerning Credit limit; changing Bank details)
• to support Country TFCM and ARM Lead in assessment of customers and their guarantors (to gather package documents for credit limit from clients; to check financial data of clients; to prepare customer profile for clients; to initiate credit approval request based on delegation of authority matrix; to check received securities from clients and register them; to track significant events of clients)
• to perform operational work of credit function (to extract daily bank statement and prepare instruction for payment allocation received from customers; to release orders on-time; to check registered payment terms in system; to reconcile balance statements with customers; to collect debts; to coordinate financial disputes and timely resolving them; to organize cashing of bank promissory notes on-time; to prepare monthly AR package of reports; to provide supporting documents for auditors)
• to support Country TFCM in legal processes with customers and their guarantors (to organize gathering the package of documents for court; to prepare internal litigation form; to send court correspondence to external legal agencies; to register of court case status; to archive court correspondence by files)
• to support Customer Service in customer master data maintain (to approve registration new customer / changing of existing customer in system in part of credit function settings and bank details)
• to support Customer Service in preparing rebate for customers (to analyse sales agreement commercial conditions and provide sales and payment data for calculation early payment rebate for customers)
• to support Customer Service in preparing offset agreement for customers (to approve agreement in part of debt offset data)
• to follow the financial authorizations according to the local financial authorization matrix reflecting the segregation of roles between the Country TFCM, ARM Lead and ARM in the local country TFCM policy.
• to perfom other dispositions of the Country ARM Lead and TFCM

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• Good experience work in Collection and Credit control functions based on Credit policy (not less than 3 years)
• Knowledge and understanding Assessment client, Allocation payment, Collection, Reconciliation processes
• Good knowledge of SAP functionality and experience (not less than 1 year) as key user in part of ARM
• Ability to improve ERP systems (creation business cases, incident, controlling implementation new features in systems, testing)
• Advanced user of Microsoft office products (Excel, Word, Outlook, Power Point)
• High economic education
• Deeper understanding of financial statements and key financial ratios and their meanings to creditworthiness of customers
• Knowledge of basic accounting
• Knowledge of billing, credit and collection; customer care processes
• Understanding of risk mitigation tools in the country
• Knowledge of the country’s economics and the general business environment
• Good knowledge of functionality the company’s ERP systems (SAP) in part of payment allocation, order release, balance reconciliation, dunning, AR report generation, BDDP posting
• Fluent English

• A competitive salary/compensation and bonus opportunities
• Voluntary medical insurance, life insurance
• Meal allowance
• Regular professional trainings
• Extended paid vacation (35 calendar days per year), employee assistance program
• Opportunities for career development within the company