.**Location**- Monterrey, Mexico**Job ID**- 0000009037**Category**- FinanceThe Accountant plays an important role in establishing a sustainable AR department in the BSO. We need development-oriented employees, all eager to engage actively in building a successful department, valuing collaboration, process excellence, quality and fun in the everyday life.**Department focus**:- To engage in establishing an impactful AR department in the new BSO- To form new relationships with collaborators and thereby ensure sustainable implementation of the global processes.- Secure timely processing of orders/deliveries/payment posting/invoicing- Support sales in credit limit decisions- Timely collection of receivables- Drive improvement in DSO and overdue- Challenge business on credit risk**Responsible for**:- Delivering a commitment, customer- and service oriented culture where the outside-in approach is starting point for all AR processes- Handle debt collection, ensuring all the daily transactional tasks are completed on time and support the Team Lead in handling other ad-hoc tasks.**Primary tasks includes**:- Follow up on overdue and collection- Advise payment allocation- Fronting Customers to resolve dispute and payment issues- Ability to release order according to policies- Monitoring of Credit Limit Utilization (for order release purpose) o Sending of Weekly Aging Report to team members- Reconciliation of customer accounts- Follow up on CTT ; Claims & Deduction issues- Collection Work list (including pre-collection) in SAP- Prepare and sending of Statement of Accounts- Provision calculations check (doubtful & bad debt) - adjustments- Credit Risk Wheel involvement (to highlight on collection issues)- Outsource to 3rd Party Collection Agencies / Lawyers o Debtor Reporting & Control Tool tasks**Your Accountabilities and Responsibilities include**:- Providing advice to Senior Account Managers with regards to payment risks of customers- Collaborating with Market Finance Controllers in handling the Market Accounts Receivable Aging- Ensuring the aging and bad debts of your Markets are meeting the KPIs o Executing optimization initiatives within own functional areas and ensuring compliance of company policies and procedures- Maintaining good relationships with senior collaborators and demanding customers to meet their needs- Pro activeness in anticipating the service needs from the Order to Cash partners to ensure smooth operations.- Ready to go above and beyond to create service differentiation- Take initiative to provide the service through the understanding of customer needs and values- Understanding the value of service provided and suggest continuous improvement ideas to enhance productivity and efficiency- Participating in projects that drives process simplification and support regional implementation o Supporting regional process standardization