Supervisor - Credit and Collections - Sheffield, United Kingdom - Wesco

Wesco

Verified Company

Sheffield, United Kingdom

6 days ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Responsibilities:

Selects, manages, evaluates and develops staff. Challenges employees, builds effective teams, and provides staff with coaching and feedback.
Evaluates collectability of unearned cash discounts, finance charges, small dollar invoices, etc. and performs and approves writeoffs of uncollectable amounts within their level of authority.
Participates in and/or leads monthly accounts receivable aging and dispute reviews with financial services team and branch personnel. Documents and pursue followup actions agreed to during meetings.
Researches and obtains appropriate credit information to rate and approve credit worthiness of new and existing accounts within assigned portfolio.
Works with financial services management to determine use of various credit instruments to mitigate risk, including UCC filings, liens, and letters of credit, and payment bonds, personal and corporate guaranties.
Reviews orders on credit hold by assessing credit worthiness of customers, including financial ratings, open invoices, inprocess payments and backlog, and makes independent decisions to release orders on credit hold, or escalate higherrisk customers to manager.

Qualifications:

Bachelors' Degree in Accounting, Finance, Supply Chain, or Business is required

Licenses/Certificates/Designations

NACM or similar
_ _is preferred
3 years of accounts receivable, accounting, finance, supply chain or general business required, 5 years preferred
1 year of hiring, coaching, training and developing employees required, 3 years preferred
2 years of commercial, business to business, credit and collection experience in a high volume environment required, 4 years preferred
2 years of working with trade credit and other third parties (e.g., D&B, Experian, Equifax, NACM, CreditSafe) to obtain credit information required, 4 years preferred.
Strong written, oral communication and interpersonal skills with a positive disposition is required
Reliable with strong organization skills; solutionoriented and resultsdriven philosophy is required
Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment is required
Strong attention to detail with a passion for accuracy is required
Willingness to accommodate temporary working hour changes as required by workflow is required
Ability to prioritize tasks and demonstrate a willingness to accept new challenges is required
Ability to travel to branches and customers is required
Lean, continuous improvement mindset is required
Ability to work effectively with all levels of management to accomplish goals and objectives is required
Wesco International, Inc., including its subsidiaries and affiliates ("Wesco") provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law. US applicants only, we are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer._