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The Credit and Collections Analyst position is heavily focused on the on-time review of open orders and adherence to collection strategies as set forth by our GETPaid Credit/Collection software system. This role is responsible for establishing customer relationships to ensure customer account reconciliations coincide with the customer’s accounts payable system. This includes: analyzing customer risk and setting credit limits up to $350K, sending statements and dunning notices, working with the customer to obtain remittance advices, reconciling unapplied cash payments, deductions and credit memos, and sending copies of invoices and credit memos to the customer. The position will partner with sales, customer service, cash application and pricing teams strongly focused on deduction resolution and will identify and propose solutions to management when there is a change in payment patterns or to any large or unexpected order which results in a credit hold.- The position also alerts management of recommendations for write offs while adhering to the bad debt to sales metric set forth by the CFO of the company. This position reports to the Sr. Credit & Collections Manager but will also work closely with the Director of Credit.-

The successful candidate will have a balanced business perspective and a background in working with Distributors and General Contractors and will be experienced in utilizing collection techniques within the Construction Products Industry. The focus of the position will be to maximize business cash flow and profits, and minimize losses and bad debt exposure while supporting top-line growth and maintaining customer goodwill.-

• 4 - 5 years’ experience in credit & collections is required, experience in the construction industry is preferred, and experience collecting from big-box retailers is a plus.

• A bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or business is required, a master’s degree or Credit/Collections Certification is preferred.

• Understanding of finance, internal control processes, bankruptcy knowledge, and A/R and related reserves accounting and software tools is required.

• Financial Analysis skills are strongly preferred.

• Financial Statement Analysis and experience working with external legal counsel and credit bureau reporting is strongly preferred.

• Expert knowledge of MS Excel is required; strong knowledge of MS Word and PowerPoint is preferred.

• SAP knowledge is required; GetPaid experience is strongly preferred.

• Must be willing to occasionally be on call during US Holidays to release Canadian orders that are on credit hold.

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Saint-Gobain provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Saint-Gobain is an equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities and supports the hiring of veterans.

At Saint-Gobain, our employees have pride in belonging to an organization whose culture is made up of these core values: Trust, Empowerment, & Collaboration. Our company encourages diversity and inclusion in all its forms while our products make the world a more beautiful, safer, and sustainable home (http://bit.ly/purpose-sgna) .