Accounts Receivable and Credit Control Specialist with Spanish on LATAM shift

Job Description

Manage Accounts Receivable for Avient Companies in LATAM region. Supports Business and the regional Credit Risk Manager in cash collection, credit control and managing bad debts. Oversees & executes standard tasks from cash collection, credit control, account reconciliation, cash application, finance billing to month end activities. Closely interacts with internal and external stakeholders i.e. commercial sales, finance, credit risk managers and our clients.

Responsibilities

• Cash application - customer incoming payments in FEBA and manual bank posting
• Collect overdue by mail and by call
• Manage blocked sales orders, review customer master data (credit limits and risk)
• Maintain clean customer ledgers monitoring and solving proactively credit open items
• Provide ad hoc reports, input to audits and comments on monthly KPI results
• Support improvement projects and scope enhancement / knowledge transfer activities

Qualifications

• Bachelor graduate and/or certified in job related fields
• 2-4 years of related experience, preferred in SSC/GBS/BPO environment
• English B1, Spanish B2 with knowledge in job related field
• Excel and other MS office applications
• ERP system knowledge, SAP would be a plus
• Ariba/Coupa/Esker/FSCM knowledge can be a plus
• Data/process analytic tools can be a plus (Power BI, Tableau etc.)
• Go-See-Act approach, Fundamental problem-solving capability

About Us

Our purpose at Avient Corporation is to be an innovator of materials solutions that help our customers succeed, while enabling a sustainable world.

Innovation goes far beyond materials science; it's powered by the passion, creativity, and diverse expertise of 9,000 professionals worldwide. Whether you're a finance wizard, a tech enthusiast, an operational powerhouse, an HR changemaker, or a trailblazer in materials development, you'll find your place at Avient.

Join our global team and help shape the future with sustainable solutions that transform possibilities into realities. Your unique perspective could be the key to our next breakthrough!

We believe that all of our global employees are leaders and that the six most important behaviors for driving our strategy and culture are the same no matter if an employee is a leader of self, a leader of others, or a leader of the business.

By playing to win, acting customer centric, driving innovation and profitable growth, collaborating seamlessly across Avient, and motivating and inspiring and developing others and yourself you will accelerate your ability to achieve Avient's strategic goals, to meet our customer needs, and to accomplish your career goals.

At Avient, we believe a wide variety of thoughts, ideas and backgrounds gives us the creativity to be successful in a rapidly changing world. In support of this, we stress equality of opportunity for all qualified individuals in accordance with applicable laws. Decisions on hiring, promotion, development, compensation or advancement are based solely on a person's qualifications, abilities, experience and performance.