Collections Officer with Portuguese

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation-led company with 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
In Romania, Accenture operates since 2006 and now has more than 4500 people in Bucharest, Timisoara, Iasi, Brasov, Cluj-Napoca and Targu Mures who offer solutions in Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Industry X & Intelligent Operations to our clients from Banking & Insurance, Telecommunications, Automotive, Retails, Energy, FMCG & more.

• Written and spoken ability to communicate in Portuguese for client interaction (C1);
• Good English (B2);
• 0-2 years relevant experience (depending on the position’s career level);
• Experience with accounting systems, cash applications, customer service, SAP would be a plus;
• Competent Microsoft Office user: Excel, Word and Power Point;
• Ability to solve urgent matters and work under pressure;
• Ability to prioritize and schedule workload;
• Reliable, active approach striving for process improvement;
• Responsibility, accuracy;
• Team player.

•Contact customers via e-mail/phone/fax and initiate collection activities;
•Identify and collect payment of overdue invoices through proactive planning, prioritization and execution of daily call cycles;
•Provide necessary information of credit worthiness to customer service when required;
•Manage the customer portfolio within the agreed credit terms and credit limits;
•Meet cash collection targets keep up-to-date;
•Deliver service in line with agreed controls and procedures.
•Input notes on payment agreements and follow-up actions;
•Reinstate accounts when payment is received;
•Initiate Collection Agency activities, providing collection data and contact details to the Collection Agency;
•Instigate legal proceeding (in-house or external) for accounts that require legal resolution;
•Flag invoices that relate to doubtful balances to be written off and input notes why the balance is not collectible;
•Register invoice disputes;
•Follow escalation routes, adhere to laid down procedures and proactively identify problem areas and propose likely solutions;