Senior Credit Risk Analyst with French language knowledge

Job Description

Arconic is currently in search of Senior Credit Risk Analyst with French language knowledge to join our Resource Unit Team based in Székesfehérvár.

At Arconic, we take pride in our work and our innovative products and technologies that advance sustainable solutions for a better world. We strive to create a safe, inclusive, and collaborative workplace with competitive benefits, development opportunities and a culture that values and rewards employees on all levels of the organization.

Job Summary:

The principal challenges of this position are control on credit risk, without sacrificing sales, through creative, proactive advice, prudent financial reviews and analysis of customers' financial credibility. You will act on behalf of Arconic entities, in Europe and North America, operate in a Global Environment under a comprehensive set of Arconic and Global Credit Policies and Procedures and within delegated credit authority.

Responsibilities

Your primary responsibilities will be:

• Performing risk analysis and credit review work for new and existing accounts of low/med/high complexity, likely including some with global scope. Exercising sound credit and commercial judgment when formulating credit recommendations, establishing proper credit controls in the Oracle system, performing all within your delegated credit authority.
• Preparing, updating and filing company information about existing and new customers on a timely manner. Entering and maintaining customer data in the system and the files.
• Performing collections across Europe and North America Arconic's complex sets of business units and global credit regions to ensure prompt customer payment performance. Due invoices are collected with minimal delays, without alienating customers. You will manage collection, cleans and reconciles customer ledgers of 1- 3 business units and/or 24 Arconic locations in Europe & US.
• Controlling your accounts receivable portfolio independently manage all collection issues, customer receivable issues and releasing orders. You will be also responsible for accounts reconciliation, escalate further to BU and/or BU Coordinator/Credit Manager in a timely manner if/as necessary.
• Building essential credibility with assigned BU's (in some case as the BU Coordinator). Helping BU's craft their AR management on complex/troubled accounts as well as customers on which business can be further developed. Providing necessary information to BU Coordinators who prepares monthly cash forecast.
• Negotiating financial agreements to secure outstanding and debt collection in pre-agreement with the BU Coordinators, Regional SPA's. Negotiating payment agreements, conditions, timeframe, and interest, in pre-agreement with the BU Coordinators, Regional SPA's.
• Renewing credit lines of the assigned portfolio using bulk credit review features. Adjusting credit lines if day to day business routine requires and customer payment performance/ other indicators allow this. Reporting all Credit line related concerns to the direct supervisor and/or the other Credit Analysts. Ensuring customer exposure remains within the approved credit limits reasonable norms. Managing order holds/releases effectively, using sound judgment in non-standard situations.
• Defining, supervising and controlling all credit and collection processes related to your portfolio.

Qualifications

Basic qualifications and work experience:

• Background in financial principles acquired through formal secondary and/or tertiary level education in Accounting, Finance or Economics
• Minimum 2 years of experience of credit/collection/risk analysis experience in a corporate environment
• Fluent French and English language knowledge

Essential knowledge and skills:

• Understanding Documentary credit basic requirements, in depth knowledge of various payment methods, and secured terms.
• Understanding financial impact of forecast accuracy.
• Understanding financial impact of payment delays.
• Excellent people skills: pleasant, persuasive, diplomatic yet authoritative, able to work with people across the organization as well as with external customers.
• Strong communicator - with external clients as well as with internal customers, supervisors and team members.
• Proactive, transparent, analytical, disciplined, motivated.
• Ability to work in a diverse and complex environment.