• To be accountable for the leadership and management of the AR team for Spain, Portugal HQ and virtual countries, ensuring the DSO and other key financial performance targets are met.

• To be accountable of managing and standardising processes in virtual countries ensuring the DSO and other key financial performance targets are met.

• Managing people by developing and motivating team, and working effectively through direct reports.

• Empowering team members by engaging them in decision-making, problem solving and the development of performance standards.

Main Responsibilities

Effective management of Accounts Receivable activities

• Responsible for the compliance with agreed processes and controls

• Responsible and monitoring monthly KPIs to achieve the monthly/annual targets

• Assist for DSO budget

• Calculate impact of payment terms changes on DSO

• Responsible for Sarbanes Oxley compliance for the countries

• Be the point of contact with the local country to escalate issues for resolution within the escalation time frame.

• Liaise with other departments (OTD, finance, local countries)

Identify and champion business process improvement

• Develop, implement and monitor cross country best practices

• Generates new ideas and initiative goes beyond the status quo

• Evaluates new or modified approaches and ideas with an open mind

• Brings perspectives and approaches together, combining them in creative ways

Communication

• Develop effective relationship with internal and external customers

• Escalate issues and propose solution

People Management

• Working with HR, recruit, select and train new team members

• Responsible for the administrative management of the team members (including holidays, training and development courses and performance reviews)

• Providing clear direction to the team so that they can perform at the required standards

• Manage disagreements: brings substantive conflicts and disagreements into the open and attempts to resolve them collaboratively; strives for win/win solutions.

TEAM LEADER Virtual countries

• Standardise processes across countries with SSC processes

• Accountable of the AR processes & KPI’s

• Agree on common objectives

• Work on process improvement across virtual and SSC countries

• Understand local business

• Effective communication with virtual team

Dimensions / KPIs

• Overview of the month including calculation of DSO

• Analysis of the past due

• Payment terms analysis for the top 5 clients

• Analysis of the deductions

• Monthly European scorecard

• Quarterly AR benchmark

Key Competencies / Skills S = Standard, D = Developed, H = Highly Developed

• Managing People - H

• Establish Relationships -D

• Builds Realistic Plans - D

• Meet Customer Needs - D

• Show Drive & Initiative - H

• Manage for Results - H

• Foster Open Communication - D

• Manage Execution - H

• Foster Team work – H

• SAP

• Ability to make things happen with strong sense of ownership

• Excellent interpersonal skills

• The ability to work on own initiative, be flexible and anticipate problems

• Attention to detail

• Proven analytical skills

• Balance sheet understanding

• Strong IT Skills, including ability to perform analysis in Excel

• Fluent English

• Spoken Spanish or Portuguese (desirable)

Required Experience and Qualifications

• Strong Accounts Receivable experience in a multinational blue chip or FMCG organisation.

• Strong people management experience, ideally in a multi cultural environment

• Trade credit experience working with large corporate customers is essential

• Must have worked towards a DSO/DBO target

• Ability to demonstrate delivery of successful process/procedure improvements

• Experience of presenting to management/director level

• Experience of working with virtual countries (desirable)

• ICM Qualification (desirable)

Please note that this role is for an initial 12 month contract.