As a Collections Specialist, you will play a key role in optimising cash flow by proactively managing a portfolio of customer accounts and ensuring outstanding balances are collected in line with agreed payment terms.
Working as part of a global Order-to-Cash team, you will build strong relationships with customers and internal stakeholders to resolve payment queries, remove barriers to collection and minimise aged debt. You'll take ownership of the end-to-end collections process, balancing a customer-focused approach with the ability to confidently enforce contractual payment terms where required.
Success in this role requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent communication and a proactive mindset. You'll use data to identify trends, drive continuous improvement and support process enhancements that improve both the customer experience and cash conversion. As a trusted business partner, you'll collaborate closely with Sales, Billing, Revenue, Finance and other teams to deliver an efficient and effective Order-to-Cash process while contributing to the achievement of key cash collection, DSO and aged debt targets
You'll be responsible for:
Proactively managing a high-volume, multi-currency customer ledger, ensuring accounts are collected in line with agreed payment terms.
Building and maintaining positive relationships with internal and external customers, demonstrating awareness of cultural and regional differences while appropriately enforcing contractual payment terms.
Recovering overdue debt by proactively engaging with customers to resolve payment delays, disputes and account queries.
Investigating and resolving payment issues by partnering with Sales, Orders, Billing, Revenue and Finance teams to ensure an efficient end-to-end Order-to-Cash process.
Identifying and resolving short payments, withholding tax (WHT) deductions and unapplied cash, ensuring all variances are investigated, categorised and resolved promptly.
Supporting cash allocation activities by assisting with the identification of unidentified receipts and ensuring payments are accurately allocated.
Managing final demand, suspension and debt recovery activities professionally and sensitively, working closely with internal stakeholders and third-party collection agencies where appropriate.
Owning customer queries from receipt through to resolution, coordinating with cross-functional teams, providing regular updates to customers and internal stakeholders, and ensuring issues are resolved promptly to minimise delays to cash collection.
Analysing aged debt and payment trends to identify root causes, mitigate risk and improve collection performance.
Producing accurate reporting and actionable insights on collections performance, aged debt, recovery activity and key risks.
Ensuring all documented processes, internal controls and Delegation of Authority (DOA) requirements are followed at all times.
Driving continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to simplify processes, increase automation and enhance both customer experience and operational efficiency.
Contributing to the achievement of cash collection, DSO and aged debt targets while supporting the wider Order-to-Cash function.