Our story started at the beginning of the 20th century, when Carl Grundén, the son of a fisherman, grew tired of the unforgiving weather on the west coast of Sweden. He decided to make something for people with passion for fishing, and started manufacturing water repellent garments to withstand the forces of nature – keeping all men and women warm, dry and safe when doing what they love. Today we carry on the tradition of developing products you can trust. We help fishermen, both professional and recreational face any condition on waters across the globe.
The Credit and Collections Manager has ownership of the end-to-end Accounts Receivable function. By maintaining positive working relationships with customers’ AP departments, the Credit and Collections Manager strives to maximize cash inflows and minimize aged accounts receivable balances and bad debt write offs.
A successful Credit and Collections Manager is someone who communicates effectively, is solution-oriented, and holds themselves to a high level of service to our internal and external customers. Reporting to the Controller, the Credit and Collections Manager is an individual contributor responsible for the following:
Key Responsibilities
- Monitoring Accounts Receivable aging and following-up with customers on past due Accounts Receivable in a timely manner.
- Preparing and applying daily deposits. Processing Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) website payments and refunds.
- Processing customer credit applications, assessing creditworthiness, and setting up new accounts in MS Dynamics NAV ERP.
- Balance ongoing AR credit risk by performing periodic credit reviews and updating credit limits in the ERP system and on credit insurance as applicable.
- Maintaining integrity of customer master data such as payment terms, addresses, reseller’s permits, and AP business contacts.
- Partnering with the internal teams on forecasting cash inflows, A/R balances, credit holds, and other related issues.
- Submitting, monitoring, and troubleshooting EDI invoicing for major accounts.
- Maintaining Accounts Receivable sub-ledger for accuracy including monthly reconciliation to G/L.
- Respond to customer inquiries regarding their invoicing, payments, terms, discounts, and balances due.
- Preparing monthly sales commission reporting.
- Preparing annual audit submissions relating to Accounts Receivable such as payment confirmations.
- Perform bad debt assessments, send final demand letters, and turn over accounts to third party collection agencies as needed.
- Participate in department priorities and take an active role in driving quality improvements, processes, and initiatives.
- Other duties as assigned.
Skills, Traits, & Attributes
- Minimum of 3-5 years of relevant work experience in Accounts Receivable
- 2+ years of ERP System experience, MS Dynamics NAV a plus.
- In-depth knowledge of billing and collections best practices.
- Experience reaching out to customers, confidence de-escalating and negotiating if appropriate.
- Outdoors industry experience preferred.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with other teams to solve problems.
- Understanding of accounting concepts.
- Detail oriented with strong communication skills both oral and written.
- Insurance: All employees have the ability to enroll in medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short term disability, and Life Flight coverage. Benefits begin the first day of the month following your hire date.
- Retirement: Grundens offers a 401(k)-retirement plan with a 5% match at 6% contribution.
- Profit Sharing Program: Grundens offers a biannual profit-sharing program when revenue targets are and/or exceeded.
- Paid Time Off (PTO) – All Grundens employees earn PTO every pay period, starting at 80 hours per year depending on experience level.
- Paid Holidays – Grundens provides 9 set paid holidays plus 1 floating holiday for a total of 10 paid holidays.
Compensation: This role can expect to earn $60,000 – $75,000 in annual salary.
Benefits: Grundens offers a generous benefits package that includes the following:
Work location: Hybrid with 2 days per week onsite at Poulsbo office
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Built by fishermen, Grundens way of thinking today caries this tradition. We are humbled by natures beauty and power and believe if there are no fish there is no fishing, and eventually no us. However, with the right tools, decisions and attitude, we are able to invest in solutions. Working at Grundens is no different. It’s about finding resourceful solutions, working towards a common goal and building trust in the process. Come work with us.
**Grundens is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, marital status, or any other protected status. **