清远招聘

Position: Credit Manager, North Asia
Team / Department / Location: Corporate Treasury / Credit / China
Reports to: Senior Credit Manager, Asia-Pacific


Accepted by:
Employee to sign Manager to sign Date
1 Purpose of Position
The Credit Manager, North Asia is the first focal point for all credit & collections activities. This role is responsible for the management and coordination of Credit control activities, governance and policy guidance in North Asia.
The role reports into Senior Credit Manager of Asia-Pacific located in Singapore, partners with Business Units and Finance teams to evaluate credit risks in North Asia and provide dispute resolution support. This support will enable the area to generate sustainable and profitable growth through effective management of exposures and liquidity. The role of the Credit Manager, North Asia, is based in Panyu, Guangzhou, China.

2 Principal Accountabilities
Internal & external customer Relationship: Engage Business leaders to understand business strategies and provide value added advisory support on risk management to ensure we mitigate our credit risks to the minimal while maximizing sales. Maintain a good & professional relationship with customers thru customer visits and regular calls.
Cash Management: Work with cash application team to ensure payments are processed within the 24 hours SLA. Support the cash application function by providing timely information on payment details or resolving unknown payments.
Credit Reviews & Risk Management: Conduct credit reviews and ensure portfolio risks is managed within corporate gudielines.
Treasury Governance, Policies and Compliance: Keeping abreast with regulatory changes and advise implications. Ensure compliance with corporate policies and procedures.
Collections & Metrics Attainment: Developing & adhering to collections procedures and to keep overdue levels to a minimal. To achieve collections metrics with the assistance of team members.

3 Scope of Position
Number of Staff: 4 direct reports currently.
Problem solving and know-how: Work towards broadly rather than specifically defined framework. Influencing skills is important to get projects initiated and critical exposures managed. This role provides support across different businesses in a complex and evolving fiscal, regulatory environment in India. Complexity of external environment and coordination requires a certain level of knowledge, judgement, and ability to work with ambiguity and integrate data to implement solutions within Global Credit policy guidelines.
Accountability: Internal & external customer relationships, accountable for reporting and adherance corporate credit policies as well as ensuring that the full spectrum of credit operations is executed flawlessly.


4 Significant Working Relationships
Formal relationship: Reports to Senior Credit Manager, Asia Pacific
Significant relationship: Local and multi-national banks and financial institutions, Finance and Business leaders in India and other corporate functions, including Legal and Tax as well as directly with key customer contacts.


5 Major Challenges
North Asia is a diversified region with different regulatory regime on foreign exchange controls and tax. A good understanding, keeping abreast of timely economic and business development are required to properly manage exposures.

The individual must be self-driven with good planning, organization, and management skills. The ability to communicate well with all levels with a professional demeanour will enable buy-in of decisions/ exposures managed.
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6 Background Knowledge Required for Position
Training and Education
University degree qualified in Economics, Business Management, Finance, Accounting or equivalent.

Skills and Knowledge
Strong understanding of various financing options & LCs
Able to operate independently, plan and prioritize and deliver results, excellent organizational skills required
Eye for detail at the same time able to work on a macro view, understanding decisions and business/risk impact.
Strong influencing and negotiation skills required
Excellent credit analysis skills with the ability to defend recommendations when required
High level of integrity and honesty.
Good command of English.
Pleasant and possess excellent interpersonal skills

Experience
10 - 15 years Credit & Collections experience in a progressive MNC environment.
At least 3 years experience in managing a team of analysts

As one of the leading executive search firms in China, Bel Esprit Consulting is a domestic firm with international standards that focuses exclusively on hiring for the China market. We work closely with multinational and domestic companies to recruit business leaders in mainland China including Taiwan, Hongkong and Macao.

The central objective of our business: to bring best practice and international standards to executive search in China, and supply the valuable business leader in accord with the culture and management of the clients.

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We work with a wide range of clients such as wholly owned multinationals, joint venture multinationals, Chinese State Owned Enterprises (SOE’s), domestic private companies and domestic listed companies.

In our short history we have already established a world-class client base of leading multinational and Chinese companies, who turn to us to identify leaders in IT, Telecommunication, EMS, Consumer Electronics, Fine Chemical.