AR and Collections Manager

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accountancy, Accounting Technology, Finance, or similar
• 7+ years in Accounts Receivable, including 3+ years managing a team of five or more
• Direct experience collecting US B2B trade receivables — calling US customers, negotiating payment arrangements, working disputes to closure
• Background in distribution, trading, wholesale, or a comparable high-volume goods business
• Strong grasp of the full order-to-cash cycle: credit, invoicing, cash application, deductions, and reserves
• Comfortable reconciling receipts across payment types — ACH, wire, check, and card — back to the bank
• Experience creating and maintaining customer master records in an ERP — address, banking, and payment-term updates
• Strong Excel: lookups, pivots, reconciling large data sets
• Willing to work on a night shift schedule and onsite work in Alabang Muntinlupa

Job Description:

• Get the cash applied cleanly. Payments arrive by ACH, wire, check, and card, and they rarely arrive with clean remittance detail. Your team applies them, clears unapplied cash, and reconciles receipts by payment type back to the bank and to Odoo. Unapplied cash sitting on the balance sheet is a collections problem wearing an accounting costume.
• Work the deductions. Wholesale customers short-pay — claims, RMA credits, promo and rebate deductions, freight chargebacks. Each one is either a credit we legitimately owe or a receivable we're about to lose through neglect. Drive them to resolution, and make sure the recurring patterns get back to Sales and Operations instead of dying in your queue.
• Own the customer record. Create and maintain customer profiles in Odoo — address changes, banking detail updates, tax and payment-term changes. The accuracy of that data is what makes collections, cash application, and credit decisions possible in the first place.
• Manage credit exposure. Review credit applications, monitor limits, and recommend holds and releases. You build the case with the numbers; the US Controller approves. Where an account is heading toward agency placement, legal referral, or write-off, you document it and recommend — the US takes it from there.
• Report the truth. Aging, DSO, cash collection forecast, and bad-debt reserve recommendations, on a cadence your US counterparts can plan around. Surface deterioration while the balance is still collectable, not after.
• Lead the team. Six people across two functions. Balance the load, cross-train so no account or process has a single point of failure, and coach on why an error happened rather than quietly fixing it yourself.