Collection Specialist

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**We are looking for a Collections Specialist to join our Credit Management Operations Shared Services Organization located in **Portugal **to get involved in the following activities**:

- Increases the speed at which customer’s open items move to cash
- Proactively tracks and collects Trade Debts & Advanced payments (when cash request is issued)
- Provides visibility and supports follow up of invoice disputes
- Interfaces with the customer to improve invoice approval and payment turnaround times
- Highlights E2E process improvements when inefficiencies exist
- Provides forecast of expected payment of open items for current quarter

**Main Responsibility Area**
- Starts when invoices are delivered to customer’s premises
- Includes CO Finance, GEPS & Non CO Finance
- Excludes Inter-unit & Vertical business units (RFS, ASN, etc...)

**Position Description**
- Interacting with customer Account Payable departments to progress chase invoice approvals and payments
- Line Items Status Check (Collections)
- Invoice Quality Issue (Dispute Management) Supports escalation
- Cash Allocation (Payments)
- Supports Manual invoice mapping
- Manage key/critical customer relationships
- Includes establishing team work and handover points between PM, OM, CO,
- Challenges any failure in the process preventing fast turn-around of invoices, i.e. disputes
- Proactively reconciles invoices by working with both the CT team and the customer representatives to ensure payments by the due date
- Provide status and trade debtor reports for customer and CT meetings
- Supports achievement of customer Overdue and cash targets
- Supports CBC/Asset Controllers with SoR administration, Due date amendments, provide accurate cash forecasting
- Provide additional analysis as required
- Doubtful account analysis, supports with communication of any eventually required write-off or bad-debt provisions
- Support SOX Controls RE 203, RE 205 and TR620.
- Follow-up liquidation cases (if any)
- Responsible to administer customer related follow up actions in Receivables Management Tool in accordance with SSO Collections relevant SOPs

**Position Requirements**
- BSc (Finance degree)
- Fluent English and Turkish is must ,additional language (Greek/ Arabic) knowledge will be a plus
- Problem Solving / Organization / Prioritization skills
- Active listening
- Numeracy, MS Excel
- Assertive and Influencing Others
- Relationship building
- Business Orientation (Credit / Collections / Sales / OM)
- Working Across Boundaries
- Contract Management knowledge preferable

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