At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to:
• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives.
• A good benefits package incl. medical insurance for the employee and children, corporate car, mobile communication reimbursement.
The Opportunity
This position works out of our Kyiv, Ukraine location in the IFO Division.
As Credit Controller CIS/Coordinator you will be responsible for overseeing the collection of customer accounts in a manner that ensures high customer satisfaction and loyalty. As such, a Credit Controller must be able to communicate in an efficient yet friendly manner with Affiliates, as well as the broader Corporate Finance Services (CFS) team while reporting to Affiliate Finance Director CFS.
Core Job Responsibilities:
• Serve as Single Point Of Contact for all Credit & Collection activities for the Affiliates
• Develop strong working relationship with the Affiliates, Regional HQ, Corporate Finance Services Hub and other stakeholders to ensure business support
• Account Receivables and Collection: monitoring debtor balances to ensure timely payments, target DSO and other KPIs
• Direct support of Credit Limit Requests in negotiation with Affiliates
• Collection & analysis of customers’ financial documents across CIS, report to management on outstanding issues, highlighting potential debtor problems
• Corporate reporting (A/R report, Overdue Tracking Report, other reports as per requirements of Regional HQ, Corporate Treasury)
• Initiate and support approval processes of payment terms extensions, specific shipments, technical overdue, order release in case of overdue payments etc. to get approvals from Regional HQ, Corporate Treasury according to requirement of DSO Guidance
• Ensure adherence to Credit and Receivables Management Procedures/Policies
• Assist in audit preparation and all other projects assigned
Requirements:
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Finance or Accounting
• 1+ year of experience in Credit & Collections area, experience in Customer Service is an advantage
• English – upper intermediate or higher; Fluency in Russian (CIS markets in scope), Ukrainian is an advantage
• Good business acumen for problem solving
• Strong communication skills
• Good teamwork and collaboration skills
• Advanced in MS Excel including PivotTables, SAP system knowledge is an advantage
• High-level of accuracy with numbers, strong analytical skills and attention to details
