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Emerson Strategic Collections and Finance Specialist in Turkey
As an experienced Credit Professional with a thorough knowledge and understanding of all aspects of accounts receivables you must possess excellent interpersonal and communications skills at all levels. Working in close partnership with sales and Turkish finance team to bring about the maximization of profitable sales by effectively managing customer payment terms and daily held orders. You will play a key part in process improvement, dispute management and overdue debt initiatives for the area.
This is a full time position and occasional travel may be required.
PRINCIPLE JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Provide proactive support to internal and external customers on all collections related AR issues.
Liaise with other departments to establish and maintain effective and relevant collections activities, policies and procedures.
Engage with internal and external customers early in negotiation process to facilitate receivables friendly agreement on large project related contracts.
Undertake customer site visits where required to ensure effective issue resolution and relationship building.
Effect collection of amounts due to Emerson Automation on the accounts receivable ledgers in accordance with the company targets.
Highlight any concerns/potential bad debts to the Regional Collections Manager in a timely manner.
Prepare bank guarantees in conjunction with customer and bank adhering to all Emerson and banking policies.
Work closely with the Risk team.
Provide & promote 1 st line resolution for customer discrepancies and escalate accordingly within the organization.
Actively promote and participate in initiatives to perform root cause analysis on discrepancies and undertake improvement initiatives across the quote to cash process to prevent discrepancies occurring.
Ensure best practice in Accounts Receivable is promoted and employed at all times across the area.
Provide guidance and support to more junior members of staff across the business.
Interact with all internal and external customers in a professional and courteous manner.
Responsible for the reconciliations of the customer accounts monthly
Issuance of the invoices for the recharging of stamp duty on the contracts and FX variance invoices monthly
Timely decision making, release and resolution of issues relating to all held orders to maximize sales.
Undertake any other activities as required by the Regional Collections Manager in the operation of the Collections function.
Set own priorities within framework of established procedures.
Flexibility for travel
Occasional weekend/public holiday working is a requirement of the role.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Extensive Accounts Receivable experience (min 5 years) in a senior position within a large European/Global corporate organization is essential together with experience of working with export and Letter of Credit situations. Given this is a split role experience is also required in related finance activities as specified above.
University degree in relevant field is desirable
Experience of managing complex milestone billing projects
Ability in interpret financial information
Ability to manage bank guarantees
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal and ability to communicate at all levels
Ability to manage time and work to tight deadlines
Business systems to include Oracle / SAP / Microsoft Office (Advanced Excel would be an advantage)
Fluent English & Turkish essential both written and verbal (additional European language would be an advantage)
Requisition ID : 24006813
Emerson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. We are committed to providing a workplace free of any discrimination or harassment.