Teva Associate Director Accounts Receivable 

United States, Florida, Weston 

895745059

ESSENTIAL AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

• Accountable for the administration of granting credit, determining credit levels along with supporting documentation, and monitoring credit risk exposure through an extensive periodic review process.
• Developing, monitoring, and presentation of key performance indicators that will assist with forecasting of bad debt exposure, DSO, and the annual budgeting to attain financial objectives.
• Assist the Director of Accounting in implementing strategic initiatives for cost reduction, process improvement, revenue growth, strategy diversification, and resource alignment.
• Work closely with Sales and cross functional teams to support growth while mitigating risk; communication of financial concerns and/ or other operational issues is vital to ensure alignment on the approach with the customer/business.
• Create a culture of performance excellence for the ~ 15 team members.
• Manage the credit approval process & risk management
• Monitor changes in economic, industry and customer conditions and maintain communication with various business units to evaluate potential changes to customers' credit worthiness (risk tolerance) and credit limits.
• Analyze key drivers and metrics vs. historical performance and projected goals to ensure efficiency of credit, collections, and cash application through KPI reporting through operational governance.
• Assist the Director of Accounting in implementing Accounting Policies and Standard Operating Procedures to support business needs in the billing, credit, collections and cash application areas.
• Interaction with external customers, managers and business owners to resolve billing issues and customer service complaints. Some interactions may involve controversial situations i.e. held orders, customer disputes, and proper payment allocation.
• Set goals and objectives, apply clear/consistent performance standards, motivate, challenge, and develop employees, delegate effectively, provide feedback and coaching, reward contributions, manage collaboratively.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Minimum of 6 years progressively responsible related experience
• At least 2 years of experience at a managerial level, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities:

• Strong understanding of Order to Cash processes and best practices.
• Planning, implementing goals, objectives and practices for effective, efficient and cost-effective management of allocated resources.
• Analyzing problems, projecting consequences of proposed actions and implementing recommendations that support department goals and objectives.
• Good conflict resolution and negotiation skills
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with others.
• Business and personal computer hardware and software applications, including Windows- based applications, and JDE, SAP and large mainframe experience.
• Communicating clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
• Managing and organizing multiple projects and assignments.
• Providing excellent customer service with both internal and external customers.
• Ability to negotiate difficult issues with customers and sales personnel.
• Ability to mentor and train staff.

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