Finance Manager - Cash Application

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:
• Ensure a healthy A/R portfolio with reconciled accounts
• Reduce DSO and maintain DSO to within company goals
• Develop A/R Management reporting tools
• Increase % Current of A/R
• Develop and Drive A/R Metrics to within or above industry averages
• Maintain a preventive and pro-active collections culture
• 95% or higher recovery of withholding tax certificates
• Effective and strategic use of disconnection policy for Affiliate Business
• Be the liaison between C&C and Data Management for Customer creations
• Promote and train new policies to C&C Specialist and Supervisors
• Maintain all credit policies and update for changes in business and customer practices
• Train C&C Specialist to understand and interpret client financial statements
• Perform credit checks for new accountings according to corporate policies
• Develop Bad Debt Reserves analysis taking into consideration new credit policies
• Mitigate and Reduce Bad Debt Risk
• Develop and implement training for all key functions of Credit & Collections Specialist
• Effective use and development of the SAP Collections Cockpit
• Provide a team-oriented and innovative work environment
• Supervise all cash application functions for the LATAM region
• Approve all manual postings and intercompany transactions
• Prepare Blackline reconciliations for cash accounts
• In charge monthly AR reporting for the Region
• Monthly reconciliation of write-off tracker
• Provide operational information to internal and external auditors
• Responsible for the upload of all bank transactions for the Region
• All other functions as assigned.

Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in business Administration with at least 7 to 10 years collection experience supervising a staff of receivable professionals. Working experience within a media, cable or tech organization highly preferred.
• Ability to identify corrective process and/or people action and implement with continued fluidity of day to day business operations.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate findings and present and implement optimal solutions to cash collection issues.
• Prioritization, organization and attention to detail are a must.
• Ability to effectively lead a multi-cultural team and optimize resources
• Fluent Spanish language skills. Native speaker a plus. Portuguese language a plus.
• Strong analytical capability with a focus on resolving complex customer concerns.
• Recent experience with SAP
• Proficient use of MS Excel with working knowledge of Pivot Tables, intermediate to complex formula creation, and VLOOKUP functions.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rj6n20-18-118-0-240-42 in your application.