Credit Manager
FORTILINE INC

Who We Are

Working at Reece & Fortiline means being part of a growing global company that brings our purpose and values to life every day. We celebrate our team members living our values and provide opportunities to build a long and remarkable career. We're proud to support essential industries helping bring clean air and water to everyone. To learn more about our purpose and values, visit our career site at https://careers.reece.com/us/

Credit Manager

The Credit Manager is responsible for the overall accounts receivable portfolio assigned to their defined region as it relates to credit, collection, communication, and staff needs. This includes supporting the assigned credit team on escalated issues and assisting the regional credit manager with AR reviews, training and development, and other manager duties as assigned.

Job Description

• Proactively drive profitable sales growth by securing transactions and extending credit to customers in line with company policies.
• Assess and manage risk within assigned authority and in accordance with established corporate credit policy.
• Review and evaluate new accounts for credit worthiness and establishment of credit terms.
• Manage existing accounts receivable portfolio through direct customer interaction and internal resources.
• Manage and drive collection activities in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Negotiate payment arrangements with delinquent accounts to minimize bad debt and maximize sales.
• Provide management and corporate reporting.
• Review and evaluate specific jobs outside established credit terms for perfecting security interests and coordination of such.
• Review and evaluate specific jobs outside established credit terms for releasing, shipping, etc. as appropriate.
• Communicate credit requirements, credit decisions, credit terms, with appropriate internal and external customers.
• Make recommendations for legal or third-party collection action as appropriate.
• Promote professional harmonious relationships with customers, sales force and management.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent credit experience
• 4-6 years previous experience in a credit/collection's role
• Ability to initiate, maintain and grow professional relationships with both internal and external customers.

• Strong analytical, problem solving and presentation skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to follow up with exacting detail.
• Working knowledge of accounting and finance basics.
• Experience working in a commercial credit environment in the construction industry.

• Familiarity with lien and bond procedures required.
• Ability to assess risk and make balanced credit risk / sales decisions within guidelines.
• Ability to professionally communicate credit requirements and/or credit decisions.
• Ability to work independently, managing multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Excellent time management skills - adept at working with urgency and meeting deadlines as required.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint
• Bilingual English/Spanish
• Occasional travel required for business purposes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Demonstrated ability to drive collection results
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain customer relationships
• 4-6 years of credit lead experience

Our commitment to excellent customer service is just part of our story. We're also dedicated to supporting our most valuable asset, our associates! One of the ways we do this is by offering a variety of high-quality benefits for our associates and their families.

All full-time associates are eligible for the following benefits:

• Medical and Dental Insurance
  
• Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts
  
• Company-paid Life Insurance
  
• Short Term Disability
  
• 401(k) Plan
  
• Paid Time Off (PTO) - plus paid holidays
  
• Parental Leave
  

Voluntary benefits:

• Vision
  
• Long-term Disability
  
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
  
• Additional Voluntary Benefits through Corestream
  

We're an equal opportunity employer and we welcome diversity and inclusion! Reece USA is an Equal Opportunity Employer- Employer Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, and any other status protected by law.

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