Senior Credit Analyst

Senior Credit Analyst

Job Description

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®. At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact. You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

About You

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

Senior Credit Analyst has overall accountability to identify, lead and coordinate strategic activities for receivables and risk management in UK&I and Western Europe region. In addition, he/she monitors collections management priorities and actions, acts as a point of escalation, monitors compliance to established procedures and is a driver of process improvement initiative. In your Senior Credit Analyst role you will have a chance to open your mind into new innovative opportunities, creative ways of working and you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Recommendation & decision making on account blocks (in agreement with sales)

• Existing/New customer credit risk assessment and provide recommendations regarding financial conditions (credit facility/payment terms)

• Management of bad debt portfolio, providing bad debt proposals and provisions, follow up on legal cases

• Managing payment terms setup and changing the existing ones

• Leading Receivables/Days Sales Outstanding forecast & coordination of action plan in order to reduce a high impact to cash conversion cycle

• Monitoring priorities for Collections activities, taking proper actions and next steps based on the contain of the list 

• Complete general aging reports and coordinate next actions to be done by collections team 

• GL to AR reconciliation

• Coordination of month end close activities

• Goodwill/write off proposal for aged/non recoverable debt

• Prepare for and present Trade Receivables in quarterly Balance Sheet reviews

• Communication with business units, Days sales outstanding/Receivables updates

Required Qualification

• Proven experience in credit control/ cash collections or as a risk analyst overall understating

• Degree, ideally related to accounting and finance (asset)

• You possess proven decision making & influencing skills

• You have an excellent attention to detail and high level of accuracy

• You work independently, use your own initiative, take ownership, stay calm under pressure and possess positive, can-do attitude

• You are able to communicate and present in a professional manner with a variety of people internally and externally

• You possess escalation management capabilities and the ability to speak up and flag risks.

• You show passion, enthusiasm and willingness to learn. 

• You have the ability to build relationships and possess problem solving approach.

• You are adaptable, agile and you respond positively to changes

• You are computer literate with MS Office (Word/Excel/Teams) with good time management skills and the ability to prioritize workload and issues

• SAP environment working knowledge

• You are proficient in English (C1 level required)

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

Total Benefits

Great Support for Good Health - with medical, dental, and vision coverage options, Social Fund and Cafeteria Platform, life insurance to support you and your family in unexpected moments, and the Employee Assistance Program, as we want to ensure that you have access to the resources you need to take care of yourself and your loved ones.

Hybrid Work Arrangement - with min. 1 day per week from the office, in accordance with our internal policy, as we understand the importance of work-life balance. Thanks to that, we are providing you with the flexibility to manage your commitments both inside and outside of work.

Yearly Bonus - to reward you for your hard work and dedication throughout the year. This bonus is ba