Manager Credit Collections

Date:  Sep 16, 2024
Category:  Corporate
Location: 

Union City, CA, US, 94587

About Company

Mizuho OSI is the leader in the markets for specialty surgery and patient positioning. The company’s portfolio includes specialty surgical tables for procedure-specific approaches that improve patient outcomes in spine and orthopedic surgeries along with disposable and reusable surgical patient care products.

 

Job Summary

The Manager, Credit & Collections is accountable for the entire credit granting process, including the consistent application of a credit policy, periodic credit reviews of existing customers, cash application processes, and the assessment of the creditworthiness of potential customers, with the goal of optimizing the mix of company sales and bad debt losses. 

 

You may develop and implement short and long-term strategies that are in accordance with company goals and objectives. Provide expert advice and counsel to management on department-related issues, including those with company-wide or external impact. 

 

This position is responsible for aligning a diverse team around a clear vision and purpose while leading, inspiring, developing and motivating the team to successfully achieve individual and organizational objectives. 

 

This position manages non-exempt staff who work in the functions of Credit & Collections and Cash Application. 

 

Responsibilities:

  • Provide leadership and management of Credit & Collections staff by assigning, monitoring and reviewing their work. 
  • Mentor and develop employees giving timely and constructive feedback, explaining rationale and thought process to help employees improve their skills. Measure and document their performance in the annual Focal Review performance evaluation process as well as create and evaluate MBOs. 
  • Develop, implement and maintain systems, procedures and policies including the corporate credit policy, recommend changes and process improvements to senior management. 
  • Recommend credit limits and handle special credit arrangements and problem collection accounts. 
  • Oversee analysis of accounts receivable, aging of accounts to determine overdue accounts, and collection procedures. 
  • Monitor the credit granting, updating process and deductions being taken by customers. Conduct investigations on the largest customer credit applications, review and approve staff credit recommendations. 
  • Create a monthly report of A/R aging with explanations on past due items, maintain department metrics report. 
  • Interact with leaders across many business units including but not limited to the Sales organization providing technical guidance. 
  • Manage customer credit files and information that needs to be updated or reported on through the Customer Master. 
  • Proactively identify needs, allocate personnel based on priorities, and ensure that employee cross-training plans are maintained to achieve current and future goals. 
  • Create and maintain a work environment that fosters a sense of purpose, urgency, involvement, engagement, and accountability to leverage the team to effective and efficient results. 

 

Qualifications & Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Business; with seven-plus years of progressively responsible experience with credit & collections, credit scoring systems, thorough knowledge of credit-related laws with minimum five years of supervisory experience preferred; or equivalent combination of education and experience. 

In addition to the above;

  • Knowledge of Accounts Receivable related accounting principles, including bad debt and revenue recognition. 
  • Ability to evaluate and analyze customers’ financial status, reviewing credit worthiness, evaluating reporting, and approving credit limits as part of the presale process. 
  • Experience with customer negotiations 
  • Demonstrated ability to lead, engage, motivate, and develop employees directly reporting to this position as well as cross functionally. 
  • Experience with SAP systems preferred. 
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with expertise in financial data 
    interpretation, accounting cycles, and flows. 
  • Excellent computer skills including operating Windows based personal computers, various office equipment and machines, and telephone system. Ability to efficiently and effectively use Microsoft products such as Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. 
  • Excellent customer focus with a high sense of urgency. Ability to provide excellent interpersonal and communication skills. 
  • Ability to function calmly in a fast-paced environment managing multiple priorities simultaneously. To be able to positively manage situations of a dynamic nature; to be able to modify plans, actions, and decisions in light of changing situations and circumstances while still meeting, or proposing modified, deadlines. 
  • Highly professional and consistent exercise of good judgment while maintaining a high level of confidentiality and sensitivity at all times. Must be able to think strategically and function tactically and positively creating a highly productive work environment. 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 

Salary:  $102K - $130K   +  Bonus

 

 


EOE STATEMENT

Mizuho OSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes business decisions based on job related criteria only. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religious creed, gender, religion, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition including genetic characteristics, sexual orientation, sexual identity, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.

Mizuho OSI conducts criminal conviction background checks and drug screening through a third-party screening vendor which includes searches of address history, criminal convictions, court records, education verification, employment verification, and reference checks. In addition, depending on the nature of the position for which you are applying, a motor vehicle driving report, a credit report, and/or ID checks in other non-U.S. countries are also included.

Criminal conviction background checks will run after an applicant has received and accepted a conditional offer of employment. After a conditional offer is made and before any background check is performed, applicants will receive background check disclosure and consent forms under state and federal laws, such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act. Existence of a criminal record is not an automatic bar to employment. An assessment will be made about whether the conviction has a direct and adverse relationship to the job in question. No job offer will be withdrawn, and no adverse action will be taken against any employee, based on the results of a criminal conviction background check, without an individualized assessment of whether the applicant’s conviction history has  direct and adverse relationship with the specific duties of the job in question.

Top Reasons To Join The Mizuho OSI Team

• Privately held company with a tradition of market leadership and best-in-class innovation
• Fast-paced entrepreneurial culture focused on dramatically improving patient outcomes through personal empowerment
• Emphasis on continuous improvement and celebration of our values of R.E.S.P.E.C.T. and the Mizuho OSI Way.
• Create innovative solutions designed and manufactured at our HQ in Northern California

The Mizuho OSI Way

In 1978, we set out to change the way patients undergo surgery. As a Mizuho OSI customer, you can expect our commitment to the following…
• We commit to your satisfaction. If you are dissatisfied, we will strive to make it right.
• We do things the right way. We commit to hire people with competence, generosity and a caring attitude.
• We motivate our employees to use their individual strengths to provide creative solutions, changes, and innovations.
• We anticipate your needs through customer experiences, thus nurturing our relationships.

Collectively, this creates an environment that enables and inspires healthcare professionals to improve the lives of patients.
Dare to go further. Care to do more.

BENEFITS

At Mizuho OSI, we believe better solutions and decisions are born of diversity and are proudly an EEO/AA employer. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k with matching, educational assistance and more.

FOR OUR SERVICE MEMBERS AND VETERANS

Mizuho OSI values the service Veterans and their family members have given to our country and we support the hiring of returning Service Members and military spouses. If you are a Veteran or wounded warrior and would like assistance with the employment process at Mizuho OSI, please contact HR at (510) 429-1500.

FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

If you are a person with a disability or a disabled Veteran and are applying for a job with Mizuho OSI, we would like to ensure your application process goes as smoothly as possible. If you need additional assistance, information or answers to your questions, feel free to contact HR at (510) 429-1500.

EOE STATEMENT

Mizuho OSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes business decisions based on job related criteria only. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religious creed, gender, religion, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition including genetic characteristics, sexual orientation, sexual identity, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.

BENEFITS

At Mizuho OSI, we believe better solutions and decisions are born of diversity and are proudly an EEO/AA employer. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k with matching, educational assistance and more.

FOR OUR SERVICE MEMBERS AND VETERANS

Mizuho OSI values the service Veterans and their family members have given to our country and we support the hiring of returning Service Members and military spouses. If you are a Veteran or wounded warrior and would like assistance with the employment process at Mizuho OSI, please contact HR at (510) 429-1500.

FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

If you are a person with a disability or a disabled Veteran and are applying for a job with Mizuho OSI, we would like to ensure your application process goes as smoothly as possible. If you need additional assistance, information or answers to your questions, feel free to contact HR at (510) 429-1500.


Nearest Major Market: San Francisco
Nearest Secondary Market: Oakland