Account Receivables and Credit Control Specialist
Avient Corporation (formerly PolyOne Corporation + Clariant Mb), with 2022 revenues of $3.65 billion, provides specialized and sustainable material solutions that transform customer challenges into opportunities, bringing new products to life for a better world. Examples include:
- Dyneema®, the world's strongest fiber™, enables unmatched levels of performance and protection for end-use applications, including ballistic personal protection, marine and sustainable infrastructure and outdoor sports.
- Unique technologies that improve the recyclability of products and enable recycled content to be incorporated, thus advancing a more circular economy.
- Light-weighting solutions that replace heavier traditional materials like metal, glass and wood, which can improve fuel efficiency in all modes of transportation and reduce carbon footprint.
- Sustainable infrastructure solutions that increase energy efficiency, renewable energy, natural resource conservation and fiber optic / 5G network accessibility
Avient is certified ACC Responsible Care®, a founding member of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste and certified Great Place to Work®. For more information, visit www.avient.com/ To access Avient's news library online, please visit www.avient.com/news
We are currently looking to extend our team with an:
ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLES AND CREDIT CONTROL SPECIALIST WITH SPANISH
You will manage Accounts Receivable for Avient companies in the LATAM region. You will support the business and the regional Credit Risk Manager in cash collection, credit control and managing bad debts. You will oversee and execute standard tasks from cash collection, credit control, account reconciliation, cash application and finance billing to month end activities. You will closely interact with internal and external stakeholders i.e. commercial sales, finance, credit risk managers and our clients.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
- Monitor overdues, dunning levels and collect overdue invoices.
- Maintain credit risk related customer master data.
- Manage blocked sales orders and provide customer information to business and Credit Risk Manager.
- Support managing customer insolvencies.
- Support processing L/C Payments.
- Support credit insurance process.
- Maintain accounts receivable files and records.
- Provide financial and management reports, assist in general financial analysis and enquiries.
- Monitor and solve proactively credit open items on customer ledgers.
- Calculate bad debt provision.
- Issue finance cross charges, debit and credit notes.
- Apply work instructions and working references and ensure adherence to defined standard operations procedures.
- Act as a backup for other team member/s as per aligned backup structure. Ensure proper knowledge transfer between all involved team members. Perform additional tasks assigned by supervisor.
- Support improvement projects and scope enhancement / knowledge transfer activities.
- Participate in daily team briefings and regular team and GBS meetings.
- Contribute to trustful work relationship with team members and present ownership approach.
- Assist in establishing and maintaining strong, collaborative relationships with internal and external customers.
- Interface with other GBS teams to ensure compliance with cross-team responsibilities
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- Bachelor’s degree and/or certified in job related fields.
- 2-4 years of related experience, preferred in SSC/GBS/BPO environment.
- Good language skills in English and Spanish.
- A Go-See-Act approach.
- A fundamental problem-solving capability.
- Being able to instill trust and being resilient.
- Ready to communicate openly and directly.
- Understanding processes and process execution.
- Knowledge of Excel and other MS office applications.
- ERP system knowledge and SAP would be a plus.
- Ariba/Coupa/Esker/FSCM knowledge can be a plus.
- Data/process analytic tools can be a plus (Power BI, Tableau etc.)
PERKS AT WORK
- Culture of trust, empowerment and constructive feedback, we also provide our associates with robust development programs such as Avient Academy, Lean Six Sigma, and various leadership workshops to allow for career growth in a variety of ways.
- With workplace flexibility, health and wellness programs, casual dress days, and paid time off for community service, we are committed to building upon our positive momentum.
- Extensive onboarding, mentoring and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts.
We believe diversity of ideas and backgrounds gives us the creativity to be successful in a rapidly changing world. In support of this, we stress equality of opportunity for all qualified individuals in accordance with applicable laws. Decisions on hiring, promotion, development, compensation or advancement are based solely on a person’s qualifications, abilities, experience and performance.