Collections Manager at Emerson Automation Solutions

Emerson is a global Technology and Engineering company providing innovative solutions for customers in industrial, commercial, and residential markets. Our Emerson Automation Solutions business helps process, hybrid, and discrete manufacturers maximize production, protect personnel and the environment while optimizing their energy and operating costs. Our Emerson Commercial and Residential Solutions business helps ensure human comfort and health, protect food quality and safety, advance energy efficiency, and create sustainable infrastructure.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Collections Manager

Job Identification: 23006816
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Category: Finance
Job Schedule: Full time

Job Description

• The Collection Manager is responsible for routine collection activities (verbal or written) relating to customers’ outstanding debts.
• Ensure bad debts are managed to the agreed collection policy.
• Manages government relationships and proactively plans/coordinates all key interactions with government partners to ensure the achievement of strategic business objectives.

Responsibilities
Your role responsibilities will include, but not be limited to, the following: 

• Weekly review of the site AR statement to identify aged receivables for quick resolution and escalation with customer POCs in a timely manner
• Constant interaction with customer procurement teams to understand the pre-requisites documentation, Accounts payable process to ensure timely payment of invoices
• Communication of customer AP process and required documentation to different Business Units within the organisation.
• Review of unapplied balances to initiate discussions with customer finance team to understand invoice payment and applicable deductions in a timely manner
• Responsible for ensuring that any communication directed at site level by customers is directed to the right stakeholders regarding remittance advices or dispute claims in a timely manner
• Collaborate with Customer Facing Specialist, inside sales, business development and sales managers at various locations.
• Identify leading practices and opportunities to leverage technology, regulatory and industry developments in service delivery 
• Good understanding of ERP reporting and business productivity tools required to generate status reports to be communicated to internal and external stakeholders
• Research and provide insight into legislative issues, changes and potential transactions that could impact the business and its objectives
• Assist management team to prepare for presentations where required, provide information to regulatory requests for information at bidding and contracting phases.
• Maintain strong relationships with key oil & gas government representatives, agencies and organizations and continually seek opportunities to develop and enhance partnerships with regulators.
• Organize and steer activities for company leadership within industry organizations, advocacy groups and other platforms, including coordination of senior executive visits, events, and meetings

Requirements
What do I need to be considered for this role?

• Bachelor's Degree in a Commercial, Communication, Business or Numerate discipline such as Accounting, Banking and Finance, Business Administration, Economics, Mathematics, etc.
• Experience in conceiving and implementing Credit Recovery processes will be highly valued
• Autonomous and proactive, with an instinctive drive to investigate many methods for achieving results.
• You exhibit strong analytical and IT skills, as well as Excel expertise.
• Great communicator: you have the capacity to listen to and collect feedback from a variety of stakeholders, ensuring that everyone is working toward the same goal.
• You lead by example by being humble but ambitious, with a desire to learn more
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.

Application Closing Date
12th June, 2023 at 10:57 AM

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online