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Senior Accounts Receivable Manager

Salary / Daily rate

Warsaw, Poland

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Languages

Polish (Native)English (Fluent)French (Fluent)

About me

Intro

EMEA Accounts Receivable Manager with 17+ years expertise in credit management and team leadership. Successfully led teams up to 13 people across multiple regions, driving 10%+ productivity gains and standardizing AR processes. Specialized in cash collection optimization, KPI implementation, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver measurable results.

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Work experience

MSA - The Safety Company

Aug 2021 - Present

5 years 3 months

Warsaw, Poland

Accounts Receivable Manager EMEA

Nov 2023 - Present

3 years

Warsaw, Poland

- Leading a functional work team of 10 people within EMEA region - Ensuring Key Performance Indicators are met with pre-defined objectives - Acting as point of contact for all process/people related escalations and ensuring compliance with internal guidelines and procedures - Identifying, recommending and assisting in implementation of best practices to gain efficiency and drive productivity gains across the region - Building global reporting platform - Proactively working together with key stakeholders outside of the Accounts Receivable (Sales, Accounts Payables, Customer Service) to drive end-to-end improvements in the AR process that lead to harmonization and standardization

Accounts Receivable Team Leader

Aug 2021 - Oct 2023

2 years 3 months

Warsaw, Poland

- Leading team of 10 people - scope of work: - credit management - order release - cash application - cash collection - audits - Introducing and calculating KPIs - Managing transitions from EMEA entities - Standardizing processed across all the EMEA countries - Defining desktop procedures - Making sure processes are executed as per the credit policy - Managing process improvements projects

Cargill

Jun 2019 - Jul 2021

2 years 2 months

CTC Process Specialist - Finance Transformation Office EMEA

Nov 2020 - Jul 2021

9 months

Cash collection & cash application coordinator

Jun 2019 - Oct 2020

1 year 5 months

Warsaw, Poland

- Managing team of 7 people - Coordination of the processes of cash collection, order management and cash application across entities - Monitoring and reporting of weekly/monthly results - Ensuring that all the procedures and processes are clearly defined, fully documented and followed and control over process compliance - Close cooperation with the FSS team in Bulgaria - Finding new opportunities for process improvements and leading process improvement projects

AR & Billing Team Leader

Technicolor

Jun 2018 - May 2019

1 year

Warsaw, Poland

- Managing team of 13 people - Measuring SLA & KPI - Monitoring knowledge transfers of new responsibilities across different entities - Continuous improvement in the area of AR & Billing - Operational activities (cash application, cash collection, credit management, invoicing, retrocession) - Managing escalations - Active participation in internal and external audits

Accenture Poland

Sep 2014 - May 2018

3 years 9 months

Business Advisor

Nov 2017 - May 2018

7 months

- Providing financial and strategic advices related to the OTC Cash Collections area to a mid-sized company - Building her capacities in terms of efficient management of Cash Collections team across different countries and areas. - Supporting transitions process.

Accounts Receivable Manager

Sep 2014 - Oct 2017

3 years 2 months

- Operating with a global mind-set, collaborating across the organization to bring the best of Accenture to the client - Proactively defining and offering innovative solutions with the client's best interests in mind - Providing direct, frequent and honest feedback to Team Leads and team members so that they can coach resources who are not meeting expectations – Supervision of 2 Team Leads and Team of 11 AR members - Empowering Team Leads to conduct training sessions to ensure a clear understanding of new work and impacts on overall project. Empowering Team Leads to resolve conflicts and unite people around common goals - Implementing business processes and operations that maximize high performance – Increased productivity min 10% - Holding people accountable for high standards of quality work which is reflected in clear assignments, measurable goals and identification of metrics to track individual and team performance - Resolving or escalating Process Area specific Service Issues according to the contract

Accenture

Jan 2008 - Aug 2014

6 years 8 months

Account Receivables Team Leader

May 2010 - Aug 2014

4 years 4 months

- reporting directly to customer - guiding team of 6 people to reduce AR ageing and optimizing collections - responding to clients on any process related queries and managing escalations - participating in the new pilots projects (Sidetrade, new version of Oracle, cash collection tool) - back up of the AR manager - recruiting and training new joiners

Accounts receivable specialist

Jan 2008 - May 2010

2 years 5 months

Warsaw, Poland

- reconciling the accounts receivable ledger to ensure that all payments are properly posted - verify discrepancies and resolve clients’ billing and service issues - experience in African, Benelux and Swiss telecommunication markets

Secretaire Commerciale

Karim Export Bruxelles

Jan 2007 - Dec 2007

1 year

- customer facing - solving disputes - raising proforma invoices - logistics - office management

Waitress

restaurant " le Piano"

Aug 2006 - Jan 2007

6 months

Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium


Education

Uniwersytet SWPS

studia podyplomowe

2019 - 2020

2 years

Uniwersytet Civitas

Magisterskie

2011 - 2014

4 years

Kozminski University

Licencjackie

2008 - 2010

3 years

EPFC Bruxelles

Post-graduat en economie sociale

2006 - 2007

2 years

EICW Wavre

Graduat en Marketing

2004 - 2006

3 years

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