About the Company and Opportunity:

• Our client has served as a leading industrial distribution expert since.
• This well-established firm has been in business for many years and has been growing ever since.  
• Why work here:
  • Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits plan.
  • Flexible schedule.
  • Supportive management team that wants to help you grow and succeed within the company.
  • Work-life balance.

Overview of the Assistant Credit Manager role:

• Monitor performance related to credit and accounts receivable management and apply appropriate measures to ensure timely collections and drive best practices
• Tracks team performance against metrics such as DSO, provide support analysis of fluctuations in metrics, portfolio aging, and accounts receivable balances
• Identify collection and order validations needing escalation and proactively address issues (past due items, credit limit exceeded, master data issue, etc.), by driving discussions with the customer, operations and/or sales teams
• Monitor customer credit lines, collections and account balances to ensure compliance of established credit limits, payment terms and minimize credit exposure
• Intervenes with customer negotiations to maximize collection of severely aged balances and reduction of bad debt exposure
• Review and recommend bad debt write-off amount to account for AFDA reserve
• Extend credit to customers within designated limit of authority and approve credit inquiries
• Identify delinquency drivers and facilitates action plans to drive end to end resolution

Preferred Qualifications for the Assistant Credit Manager role:

• Degree in Accounting/Finance or related degree strongly preferred
• Minimum 3+ years of related experience required, including credit and collection management experience in a large public and/or global company with a track record of steadily increasing responsibility, accountability and leadership
• Detailed experience with summary, consignment and ERS invoicing with emphasis on supply chain customer payment processes
• 3 – 5 years’ experience with electronic billing (ADP, Oildex, EDI)
• Advanced Excel skills (VLOOKUP/pivot tables/power queries)