Required Capabilities:
- Willingness and ability to build great relationships with Customers
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, assertiveness
- Ability to take full ownership of timely spend claim processing.
- Ability to drive cash results as well as Customer satisfaction.
- Willingness to gather excellent knowledge of Customers
- Ability to effectively prioritise own tasks building on knowledge of Customer business
- Ability to deliver on promises
- Proactive, solution-focused mind-set and positive can do attitude
- Ownership, entrepreneurial attitude drives issue resolution, escalates where vital
- Self-confidence and ability to work independently without strong line manager support
- Looking for and responding to feedback
- Active team player
Accountabilities:
- Schedule and lead regular communications with high profile and strategic Customers and Sales to drive cash collection, flag and eliminate reoccurring issues (cash, dispute, data or technical related)
- Proactive cash collection
- Handle credit risk (supervise payment behaviour of customers and propose credit limit changes, make suggestions on order release)
- Manage customer ledger (reasoncode and text up-to-date information on overdue invoices, rejected and unidentified deductions)
- Give input to cash forecasting
- Support StC supporting functions and processing activities (billing, clearing, customer spend processing)
- Review bad debt situation with In-market Commercial Finance, drive decision on provision and write off
- Take ownership of incoming queries from Customers
- Raise and respond to Internal Query Management ticket on time as appropriate
- Update customer contact details and knowledge book regularly
- Handle strong relationship with Customers, In-Market Sales, Commercial Finance, Process Excellence Teams
- Actively promote the CARM (Sarbanes Oxley) / Control agenda
- Reporting to support root cause analysis
Key performance indicators
- Collection Past Due %
- Collected to Term %
- Number of disputes and time to resolve
- Customer Deduction Management (unidentified and rejected deductions)
- Customer Satisfaction Unpaid customer spend invoices
- Customer spend invoice processing
Qualifications and Experience Required:
Essential
- Excellent and proven customer service attitude
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Fluent language skills as required for the specific market
- Solid English language skills company language
- Commercial Experience process knowledge and working experience
- Strong MS Office knowledge
Desirable
- College or university Degree
- Financial knowledge
- Good knowledge of internal and external business partners
- Excellent product knowledge
Barriers to Success in Role (Optional):
- Insufficient customer service skills
- Insufficient language capabilities
- Insufficient communication skills (face-to face / phone / written)
- Inability to work as a part of a team
- Lack of accuracy, attention to details
- Difficulties in setting priorities and in working independently
- Difficulties with demonstrating ownership