As Credit Manager, you’ll handle everything related to client payments at Equativ, on a half-a-billion € perimeter, spawning over a dozen countries. 

Your responsibilities will include :

COLLECTIONS

- Amicable recovery of customer receivables (automatic and manual reminders, by email and phone, in English mostly)

- Coordination with sales teams on actions to be taken with late payers (account suspension, etc). Indirect management of local assistants in charge of recovery in Brazil or Mexico.

- Coordination of litigation recovery with various partners in France and abroad (recovery agencies and lawyers).

- Production of a weekly report to the CEO and the company’s CFO on the recovery situation and ongoing actions.

CREDIT RISK

- Analysis and validation of the solvency of the prospects (Dun & Bradstreet), definition of payments conditions with major prospects (payment terms and credit limits)

- Definition and management of the customer process (reminders dates/content, deadline for termination, etc.)

- Sales education and onboarding on the importance of collections. 

Tooling and accounting

- Evolution of our payment & collections tooling: implementation of a global software, of credit card payment solutions in coordination with our treasurer, of direct debit payments, etc.

- Creation of customer accounts in our ERP and coordination for accounting updating the different customer databases (contract, invoicing, accounting)

- Management of the accounting part of customer invoicing (generation, controls, recording, solving) once the figure has been validated by the cost control team.

- Analysis of the customer ledger, reconciliation of payments received vs invoicing and entry of accruals balances/invoices in the tool. Monitoring of doubtful and uncollectible accounts.

- 2 years Degree in Accounting Management field or equivalent

- You have a min of 5 to 10 years of experience in a similar position, with B2B experience on unit invoices of more than 50K€

- Fluency in English is a prerequisite, another language (Spanish, German, French) is appreciated

- Autonomous and rigorous, you know how to follow the results of your daily actions by yourself to reach your goal on recovery and doubtful accounts.

- You are not satisfied with the existing but like to change the processes (definition and respect of expenditure limits per customers, credit insurance, etc.…)