Interim Credit Management/Collections/O2C Consultant

Interim Credit Management/Collections/O2C Consultant to work in my clients' Finance Transformation Team to standardise, centralise, remediate and harmonise credit control across group divisions and to help define, develop and implement new credit policies, procedures & processes across accounts receivable, credit and collections & client billing.

As a member of the Credit team within Finance Operations, you take an instrumental role in supporting and developing the finance operating model, finance business processes, ERP, CRM platforms and finance operations centre to standardise, centralise, remediate and harmonise credit control across group divisions and to help define, organise, develop and implement new credit procedures & processes including accounts receivable, credit and collections & client billing.

The role will involve evaluating current state "as-is" collections process and policy across group OpCo's. Identify opportunities to standardise and make recommendations for improving credit control systems for the company minimising risk to the business and ensuring client relations are preserved.

You'll be responsible for:
*Cultivate excellent relationships with key stakeholders within the business implement and maintain Service Partnering Agreements (SPA), ensuring compliance with agreed KPIs and targets.
* Help define cash collection, debt reduction targets to agreed service standards (SPA) and budget.
* Rigorously measure the collection performance, drive service efficiency and productivity against industry benchmarks and best practice.
*Engage with the business partners and senior managers across the business to help design, implement and maintain robust collection procedures and processes throughout the O2C/AR life cycle.
* Ensure that the credit department's standard operation processes (SOP's) are fully documented and maintained.
*Engage with the sales and contract teams and business partners to assist in resolution of disputes and escalated accounts to resolve late payment.

As such you'll need:
*Proven experience within a Credit Control function
*Computer literacy, proficient in the use of CRM tools, Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel)
*Previous experience of working with Excel (inc Pivot Tables, Lookups & Macros)
*Working with accounting systems and a knowledge of how the sales ledger functions
*Time Management - Plan and implement workloads to meet expectations
*Action orientation - Demonstrates a readiness to make decisions, take the initiative and originates action
*Resilience - Maintains effective work behaviour in the face of setbacks or pressure.
*Oral communication - Speaks clearly, fluently and in a compelling manner to both individuals and groups