Senior Specialist, GBS Credit & Collections
adidas
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Location Type: Office
Location: Porto • 🇵🇹 Portugal
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Senior
About the role
- Ensure a timely collection of open receivables balance by working closely with the customer, internal stakeholders and solve any causes of non-payments.
- Ensure that all payments are received are allocated accurately and timely without any errors.
- Follow-up in case of discrepancies and ensure they are handled within a reasonable time frame.
- Be accountable and demonstrate ownership, being able to manage escalations towards management, proposing proactive feedback summary and recommended solutions in alignment with the department policy.
- Lead short-term defined scope projects or support larger projects within finance operations also processing periodic reviews to identify, assess and take action to mitigate risks to project success.
- Manage customer relationship, which includes problem resolution and root cause analysis.
- Assess and review the credit risk on the customer on regular basis to mitigate risk for adidas according to credit policy.
- Provide insight in the development of the accounts receivable position of the customer to the Credit & Collections leadership team and Sales / Finance stakeholders.
Requirements
- University degree in Accounting, Business Administration or similar field
- 5 plus years relevant work experience in the accounting / corporate finance area
- Strong Finance Accumen
- Solid experience with SAP and Excel
- Experience in a Shared Service environment or similar
- Ability to read, write and communicate in English in a business environment setting.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
accounts receivablecredit risk assessmentproblem resolutionroot cause analysisfinance operationsproject managementfinancial analysisrisk mitigationdata allocationfinancial reporting
Soft skills
accountabilityownershipcommunicationcollaborationleadershipproactive feedbackstakeholder managementdiscrepancy resolutioncustomer relationship managementanalytical thinking