Credit Management Specialist with Spanish and/or Portuguese

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Credit Management Specialist with Spanish and/or Portuguese (Łódź)

Clariant is a globally leading specialty chemicals company with headquarter based in Muttenz near Basel/Switzerland. On December 31, 2013 the company employed a total workforce of 18,099. In the financial year 2013, Clariant recorded sales of CHF 6.076 billion for its continuing businesses. The company reports in four business areas: Care Chemicals, Catalysis & Energy, Natural Resources, and Plastics & Coatings.

Responsibilities:

Assess the creditworthiness of new and existing customers;
To ensure proper coordination with the credit control on flow of information;
Clearly analyses complex data or problems to develop a clear understanding and achieve the desired result;
Handling client queries and escalations, ensuring feedback to client queries within agreed time;
Maintains accurate and up to date customer details;
Support operational performance reporting activities;
Monitor customer account details to identify and analyze ageing details for non-payments, delayed payments and other irregularities & drive the implementation of corrective actions;
Support Management Information System to track the KPI (Ageing, unadjusted on account payments, back logs, Days Outstanding etc.);
Meet all relevant SLAs;
Preparation of information/data for external auditors in the various audits of the financial records;
Ensure the agreed procedures are kept up to date, documented;
Support and provide input to Manager and / or teamlead and support in developing services and systems as required;
Assist in establishing and maintaining strong, collaborative relationships with internal and external customers and ensure customer satisfaction.

Requirements:

Degree in accounting/ business education would be an asset;
1 - 4 years of experience in accounting (profound Credit Management (AR ) background);
General knowledge of SAP FI (if lacking, other ERP system and / or accounting systems);
Proficiency knowledge of MS Office (Excel, Powerpoint, Word, Access);
Good understanding of the full order processing to cash application process;
Broad understanding of credit processes;
Experience in a (high volume) multi-currency environment;
Strong analytical skills;
Excellent communication, negotiations and organizational skills;
Ability to work independently.

Languages:

Spanish and/or Portuguese: Good written and spoken;
English: communicative.