Principal Collections Analyst

Waters Corporation is currently leading a search for a Principal Credit and Collections Analyst to join our organization. The focus areas of this position will be to evaluate customer credit lines, drive collections activities on a portfolio, identify/resolve customer disputes and provide regular updates to management regarding the portfolio. The position will also be responsible for identifying potential bad debts and making recommendations to address them.

Gather and analyze financial information to make decisions about credit lines for customers in the portfolio (using sources like Dun & Bradstreet, bank references, trade references, public financial information, relevant news articles); stay up to date on external best practices and share with team members.
• Manage collections process for assigned demanding portfolio: ensure customers have received their invoice(s), seek to resolve problems, and confirm payment timing.
• Identify and resolve customer disputes leveraging the appropriate cross-functional stakeholders; maintain active, cross-functional relationships.
• Proactively collaborate with Waters' Sales and Service teams to evaluate extended payment term requests for potential orders; suggest opportunities to expand business through the use of credit terms to management.
• Train new hires on relevant systems and processes.
• Provide excellent customer service to Waters' customers.
• Ensure daily invoices required to be uploaded in a customer portal are completed each day, handle all rejections, and provide feedback to the Digital Commerce team to improve the process.
• Identify potential bad debts within the portfolio, assist less experienced peers and summarize for management.

Other duties as required by management.

Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in analytical instruments, separations technologies, and software, serving the life, materials, food, and environmental sciences for over 65 years. Our Company helps ensure the efficacy of medicines, the safety of food and the purity of water, and the quality and sustainability of products used every day. In over 100 countries, our 7,600+ passionate employees collaborate with customers in laboratories, manufacturing sites, and hospitals to accelerate the benefits of pioneering science.

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