Credit Control (Assistant) Manager

Job description JOB SUMMARY You will be responsible for leading a team of credit controllers and executives in achieving the DSO objectives. You will be responsible to perform credit assessment, escalate potential risks and recommend mitigation measures to business and operation heads. Actively meeting with business and operation heads to review the risks and measurements. You will work with management on improving processes and credit policies. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Review credit assessments prepared by credit controllers; escalate potential risks and recommend mitigation measures to business and operation heads. Actively meeting with business and operation heads to review the risks and measurements. 2. Advise business heads / sales team on credit worthiness of potential customers prior to client acceptance and contract establishment. 3. Provide advices to business heads / sales team on credit related issues in the contract and credit structures such as collateral, guarantees, letter of credit and any other mitigation strategy and trade finance tools. 4. Improve credit control system, processes and policies. 5. Ensure credit control processes and procedures are in compliance with the Company standards and policies. 6. Monitor receivables and collections, identify problem accounts and provide guidelines to team in achieving DSO targets. 7. Investigate and report credit breaches. 8. Interact with customers on contract term negotiation and obtain additional credit information from customers to support credit lines. 9. Work with management and lawyer on delinquent accounts, if any. MINIMUM ACADEMIC REQUIREMENT 1. A Bachelor Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or Business. 2. At least 5 years of credit control experience in manufacturing MNC and at least 2 years of supervisory experience. 3. Strong team leadership, business acumen and communication skills. 4. Knowledge of SAP is preferred.