Senior Manager, Global AR

Basic Function

•    The Senior Manager, Global AR position will support the Director Global SSC in managing all of the company’s accounts receivable activity across regions. Responsibilities include partnering with Shared Service Center Leaders in managing activities, assignments and processes that the AR Team follows
•    The Senior Manager, Global AR will continue to partner with the Director Global SSC and the VP, FS&T to evaluate all AR activities globally. This will include standardizing policies and procedures globally to enable automation.  Ultimately, this will drive the most effective and lean global AR organization. 
•    The Senior Manager, Global AR will manage his/her direct reports and will be developing their knowledge and work together on reaching the goals
•    The Senior Manager, Global AR role is to coach and guide his/her direct reports and develop the relationship of his/her team members with their business partners such as the Global Credit, Supply Chain, Sales, Tax and LTC GPO Committee 
•    Reviewing all AR activities such as Billing, Cash application, Sales Rebates and third party agent commissions, Miscellaneous accounts for the assigned business area to assure compliance with AR guidelines, to maximize overall efficiency and create added value by improving current processes
•    Recommends actions to be taken and enhance its overall process efficiency, in order to limit the business unit’s risk due to late cash application, corrections of invoices and rebates issuances 
•    Will present AR results and overall global KPI’s, discuss particular issues at internal meetings to ensure alignment and to manage expectations of internal customers

Roles & Responsibilities

•    Responsible for streamlining AR processes and team within the different regions
•    Monitor current KPI’s and ensure the appropriate KPI’s are in place to identify and solution process inefficiencies 
•    Support the Director of SSC in the ongoing evaluation and optimizing organizational structure of a Global AR Team
•    Responsible to evaluate all resources that touch the AR process and create an efficient Global AR team
•    Participate in the evaluation of structure changes
•    Develop and maintain continuous dialog with all levels of our internal customers such as Credit, Supply Chain Managers, local Finance teams, TAX, HR
•    Review, identify and implement appropriate process to ensure AR’s best results 
•    Act as prime contact for internal audits
•    Maintain knowledge of and recommend technical improvements to AR related to systems and processes
•    Support automation tools and improvement of existing automation
•    Review, maintain, and recommend/implement changes to AR policy and procedures as necessary to ensure global standardization
•    Partner with Shared Service Center Leadership to continuously train the team of AR Analysts to drive the improvement of the current activities and create efficiencies for the Global AR team 
•    Act as internal focal point for all AR escalated matters and advise the business organization on actions to be taken in order to improve results and processes such as pricing activities
•    Act as prime contact with Sales, Business, Order Fulfillment and Credit and facilitate strategic discussions such as service offerings, joint objectives
•    Serve on global AR teams meetings as needed to support AR global procedures and processes. 
•    Lead and mentor direct reports to ensure efficient and effective delivery of efficient processes in accordance with corporate policies and compliance requirements for AR.
•    Build and develop a high performing global team with globally benchmarked role profiles, team skills gap assessment and appropriate recruitment plan.
•    Drive and reward a culture of performance within the team, ensuring the company’s performance management process is embedded and delivered within the timelines. This includes ensuring formal performance reviews are conducted to provide real-time affirmative and constructive feedback that is linked to clearly defined and SMART objectives and goals and development plans are implemented to facilitate career path aspirations
•    Preparation and management of global AR budget to ensure appropriate allocation of resources to meet process goals

Min. Qualifications

•    Bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting, or finance 
•    12+ years of experience in finance and strong evidence of leading an operational finance department (for example: Financial Shared Service function, managing a closing process or finance director) in an organization with similar operational scale and geographic footprint
•    Experience in a global, dynamic and deadline driven environment
•    Ability to strike the right balance between managing a global team while enabling process improvement opportunities
•    Strong written and verbal communication skills required to interact with management, internal counterparties, and suppliers
•    Requires a high degree of independence in completing job responsibilities with little supervision
•    Must be able to maintain professional relationships with Business, Procurement, Suppliers and 3rd party partner
•    Experience with Internal Controls and SOX/404 requirements 

Critical Competencies/Behaviours:

•    Unquestionable, Impeccable Ethics and Integrity:  will not waiver from doing the right thing under any circumstances; objective at all times and in all situations, always operates free from bias.
•    Decision Quality:  makes good decisions based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment; most of his/her solutions and suggestions turn out to be correct and accurate when judged over time; sought out by others for advice and solutions.
•    Building/Leading Effective Teams:  blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in his/her team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team; collaborative leadership style.
•    Drive for Results:  can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
•    Negotiating:  can negotiate skillfully in tough situations with both internal and external groups; can settle differences with minimum noise; can win concessions without damaging relationships; can be both direct and forceful but also diplomatic; quickly gains trust of other parties to the negotiations; has a good sense of timing.
•    Strategic Agility:  capacity for strategic thinking as well as high attention to detail; sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
•    Excellent verbal and written communication skills; able to communicate clearly and concisely, both in written and verbal formats, within a multi-cultural environment; 
•    High intelligence, focus, energy and drive, professional sophistication, detail and results oriented and able to perform well in a fast-paced, rapid-growth environment where there is a continuing commitment to the highest quality of operations and staff. 
•    Maturity and Presence: able to stand alone as the corporate spokesperson to outsiders.
•    Strong ability to influence: works effectively with various levels within an organization, including senior-level leadership, professionals and staff and quickly build relationships. 

Competencies

We Offer

We offer an environment where we encourage personal and professional growth and where you will be rewarded for your performance and results. You will have the possibility to work with specialist on all fields to develop innovative solutions and to extend your national and international network. In addition, we offer you a competitive salary and benefits package.
The Company's Global Remote Work Policy allows eligible employees the option to work up to three days a week from home. LyondellBasell is committed to advancing diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) to ensure a positive experience for all employees.

Application & Contact
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If you would like to learn more, please feel free to contact Martyna Piechowiak, Talent Acquisition Specialist at martyna.piechowiak@lyondellbasell.com 

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