Jobs at BD

Main responsibilities will include:

Credit & Collection activities

• Monitor credit risk and payment terms within your region in close collaboration with the CF Credit Management Team, including negotiation of payment plans and terms.
• Stay informed about the industry trends and potential threats and address them when required.
• Ensure a critical attitude on safeguarding the BD assets & DSO.
• Schedule and conduct visits to customers when required together with the Customer Finance Specialist.
• Identify and monitor high-risk customers and make sure the right actions are taken (bad debt / write offs)
• Manage and document all legal actions in compliance with the local regulations in close collaboration with the legal team.
• Develop and maintain a backup structure for critical activities and processes within your daily work & team
• Provide and comment on general & country reports and analysis within our organization.

Stakeholder Management & compliance

• Build strong business relationships with both internal & external stakeholders
• Organize regular meetings to address issues and ensure smooth operations.
• Partner well with our external cash allocations department & credit management department.
• Provide information to internal and external audit when required.
• Prepare the Representation Letter and quarterly questionnaire for your region.

Project & Process

• Provide the Customer Finance team with support concerning topics in his/her field, to help solve pending issues.
• Realize standardization and propagation of best practices to guarantee and improve quality and process standards of BD’s financial services.
• Participate in EMEA projects related to Customer Finance.

People Management / training & development

• Lead a team of +/- 6 associates - directly hire, develop and coach team members
• Translate the vision, mission and strategy of BD, GBS (Global Business Services) to his/her team.
• Organize regular internal team meetings and initiate, lead or monitor the recruitment process.
• Ensure business continuity within the team and create back-up plans where needed.
• Guide the team through changes within the organization (GBS, Legal Entity Integration, 3PL)

About you

• Strong organizational skills, analytical mindset and decision-making skills
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to motivate self and others to reach common goals.
• Open to develop yourself in the people skills.
• Assertive and capable of negotiating
• Dynamic & flexible (stress resistant)
• Knowledge of local market dynamics and customer behavior
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Tools (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• Knowledge and utilization skills of financial systems and tools (S4H) is a nice to have.