Head of Accounts receivable

We are looking for an experienced finance professional to take on the role as Head of Section Cash Management (HoS CM), who will play a key role in building up the new Global Centre. The HoS CM will report to the Global Centre Pune, Finance Manager. The HoS CM will be leading a team of XX  accountants supporting the IMEA, Americas and Asian regions delivering transactional and operational control do we know the expected team size with US, IMEA & South Asia transitioned.

In your role you will:

• Be an active member of the GSS Fi management team in Global Centre Pune driving strategic and people orientated change programs.
• Manage a team of professionals delivering/processing the full cycle of cash allocation, cash management, accounts receivable and master data management
• Oversee and steer the day to day operation and delegate responsibilities across your team such that key performance indicators are consistently delivered.
• Build, coach and develop your team.
• Ensure that stakeholder requests are handled with professionalism and positive service attitude while ensuring that delivery is according to defined SLA.
• Establish and maintain close and professional partnerships with internal stakeholders.
• Streamline internal processes to ensure the most efficient operational standards.
• Review and manage exception reports, KPIs, and other key indicators of performance/output.

Work closely with the European Global Centre

• Multinational company experience in a shared service organisation (preferably in businesses like ours)
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral
• Several years experience in managing Credit collections teams to drive performance.  Must be organised and goal oriented.
• Solid knowledge in double entry book keeping (you don’t have to be a qualified accountant)
• Experience in creating and presenting cash flow forecasts to Regions and Group Treasury.
• Drive high quality Balance sheet reconciliations (Accounts receivable and Bank account)
• Experience in arranging payments (daily cash mobilisation) in the Regions that are being supported, which means multi-currencies.  This will also mean Legal Entity (LE) deposit maintenance and tracking.
• Credit Card payment processing and reconciliation
• Given we use Oracle, driving more automation to improve efficiency would be a good thing.