Description
Timely cash collection of customer accounts, assessing credit worthiness, minimizing bad debts and ensuring contract compliance and/or recommending legal action.
You will assist in the collection, management, and resolution of outstanding invoices from past due accounts. Collect overpayments from current and former employees. Work with departmental managers to eliminate root cause of overpayment. Interfaces with sales support, accounts receivable, and directly with the customer to determine the ability to pay, communicate contractual specifications, and enforce remedies in reconciling accounts. Manage portfolio of accounts including delinquency, write-offs, credit memos, and additional interest. Conducts pre-sale credit risk evaluation, prepares recommendations, and makes credit approval decisions on new accounts. Recognizes deteriorating credit situations recommending and implementing solutions. Prepares collection reports.
Duties and tasks are standard with some variation. Completes own role largely independently within defined policies and procedures. Strong attention to detail. Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal, and analytical communication skills. 2 year experience in contracts, finance, leasing, or equivalent. BA/BS degree in Accounting or Finance preferred.
Responsibilities
Role brief:
This role ensures the consolidation of long term relationships with Oracle’s customers, by creating meaningful professional connections that enable achievement of cash collections goals and consolidate Oracle’s market share.
Main role responsibilities:
- Meet the cash collected and ageing business objective every quarter, in line with Oracle’s policies, audit requirements and process quality standards.
- Maintains business relationships with assigned customers, both by phone and over email, with the main objective of ensuring repeat business. All customer facing communications will display business curtsy, integrity and availability on your part.
- Addresses all customer requirements with accuracy and within the agreed upon time of response, working with any and all applicable internal teams to investigate and resolve the issues raised.
- Is responsible for the confidentiality of all data he/she has access to and uses through the nature of this role.
- Keeps accurate records of every customer interaction, showing detailed progress of all actions taken to resolve any and all issues raised by the customer or as part of our collections efforts.
- Immediately involves his/her direct manager whenever progress of his/her collections efforts has stalled.
- Abides by and shares in Oracle’s values: integrity, ethics, mutual respect, communication, fairness, quality, customer satisfaction and team work.
- Works well with his/her team and other internal teams, sharing from personal experience and offering constructive opinions to optimise team results.
- Takes part in or coordinates projects of different levels of complexity that may involve technical or business skills.
- Is familiar with, understands and adheres to both department and company policies, procedures and processes.
- Fulfils all tasks as assigned by his direct manager, in line with the department’s activity and during agreed upon working hours.
Requirements:
- Studies: Bachelor’s Degree, preferably business or economics major
- Experience: A minimum of 6 months – 1 year of relevant experience
- Professional competencies
- Attention to details
- Proficient user of MS Office (e.g. MS Word, Excel, Adobe, PowerPoint etc) and Oracle Apps
General competencies
- Excellent command of English and Italian.
- Demonstrated ability to work well in a team, results orientation and problem solving.
- Able to make decisions, plan and organise.
- Pro-activity and adapting to change.
- Ability to find, store and interpret information.
- Creativity and innovation.
- Customer focused
- Business ethics
- Written and oral communication
- Building professional relationships.
- Ability to adapt and work efficiently under pressure
- Efficient and forward thinking
- Adapting to technological advancements
- Influencing and negotiations skills
- Continuous professional improvement and specialisation