Credit & Collections Specialist

Job Description

Reporting to the Manager of Credit and Collections, the Credit & Collections Specialist is an integral member of the Credit & Collections Team at Discovery Latin America. The primary function of the Credit & Collections Specialist is to collect accounts receivable amounts from the Distribution, Licensing, Program Sales, Access Fees and others.

Key Responsibilities
• Manage Collections for assigned region, including withholding tax certificates.
• Review contracts in order to process of credits and debits, affiliate reliefs, billing discrepancies and reconciliations.
• Quarterly cash forecast and actuals reports.
• Oversee the compliance and collection of timely reporting of affiliate subscriber reports in support of Billing department efforts.
• Ongoing reconciliations to ensure debt on account is equal to the client’s accounting books have registered.
• Manage foreign currency cash application and movements between Cash G/Ls for assigned regions
• Handle renegotiation of outstanding debts, debt acknowledgement document and payment plans
• Strive to DSO (Day Sales Outstanding) within company goals.
• Reduce bad debt exposures and reserves and provide updated on the specific bad debt reserve for client that have a risk of non-payment.
• Provide to cash application team remittances from the customers including the report that is sent to cash application in order to apply all the payments.
• Fluent communication with the sales teams in the regions in order coordinate Credit approvals, complete vendor forms for payments and daily communication with the external clients regarding collections.
• Effective use of the disconnection policy for seriously past due affiliates
• Ensure compliance with financial policies, standard operating procedures, as well as service level agreements
• Guide the customers on how to use the new tool for credit card payments.
• Perform credit screenings in coordination with Credit & Collections Manager
• Process all write-offs and ensure have been thoroughly investigated and are indeed un-collectable.

Education and Experience

Required experience:
• Fluent in English
• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university, in accounting or business administration
• 3-5 years of experience pertaining to credit & collection
• Ability to build strong professional relationships
• Excellent communication skills; demonstrated professional, tactful problem-solving skills
• Honest, trustworthy and dependable

Recommended experience:
• Knowledge of SAP is a plus.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

Key Competencies
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Organizational skills to facilitate the prioritization of work.
• Ability to work comfortably in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work collaboratively as well as independently.
• Strong written and oral communication.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Customer-centric focus.
• Process design and improvements.
• Handle stressful situations with ease. Able to meet deadlines
• General Accounting knowledge

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d9zkkm-3-139-72-78-42 in your application.