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Job Description As a Collections Specialist, you will play a key role in optimising cash flow by proactively managing a portfolio of customer accounts and ensuring outstanding balances are collected in line with agreed payment terms. Working as part of a global Order-to-Cash team, you will build strong relationships with customers and internal stakeholders to resolve payment queries, remove barriers to collection and minimise aged debt. You'll take ownership of the end-to-end collections process, balancing a customer-focused approach with the ability to confidently enforce contractual payment terms where required. Success in this role requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent communication and a proactive mindset. You'll use data to identify trends, drive continuous improvement and support process enhancements that improve both the customer experience and cash conversion. As a trusted business partner, you'll collaborate closely with Sales, Billing, Revenue, Finance and other teams to deliver an efficient and effective Order-to-Cash process while contributing to the achievement of key cash collection, DSO and aged debt targets You'll be responsible for: • Proactively managing a high-volume, multi-currency customer ledger, ensuring accounts are collected in line with agreed payment terms. • Building and maintaining positive relationships with internal and external customers, demonstrating awareness of cultural and regional differences while appropriately enforcing contractual payment terms. • Recovering overdue debt by proactively engaging with customers to resolve payment delays, disputes and account queries. • Investigating and resolving payment issues by partnering with Sales, Orders, Billing, Revenue and Finance teams to ensure an efficient end-to-end Order-to-Cash process. • Identifying and resolving short payments, withholding tax (WHT) deductions and unapplied cash, ensuring all variances are investigated, categorised and resolved promptly. • Supporting cash allocation activities by assisting with the identification of unidentified receipts and ensuring payments are accurately allocated. • Managing final demand, suspension and debt recovery activities professionally and sensitively, working closely with internal stakeholders and third-party collection agencies where appropriate. • Owning customer queries from receipt through to resolution, coordinating with cross-functional teams, providing regular updates to customers and internal stakeholders, and ensuring issues are resolved promptly to minimise delays to cash collection. • Analysing aged debt and payment trends to identify root causes, mitigate risk and improve collection performance. • Producing accurate reporting and actionable insights on collections performance, aged debt, recovery activity and key risks. • Ensuring all documented processes, internal controls and Delegation of Authority (DOA) requirements are followed at all times. • Driving continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to simplify processes, increase automation and enhance both customer experience and operational efficiency. • Contributing to the achievement of cash collection, DSO and aged debt targets while supporting the wider Order-to-Cash function.