Manager Collections

NBCUniversal is one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in developing, producing, and marketing entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks, and related operations in over 30 countries.

Job Description

Up to 3 years fixed term contract.

The Manager Collections is responsible for leading all international collection processes of the Global Customer Finance Operations organization (GCFO), which oversees order-to-cash processes for TV Distribution, Universal Networks International, and CNBC, among other NBCU businesses. This role reports to the Director of GCFO Collections & Compliance. The scope of GCFO overall Collections is ~$16 billion a year, of which International makes up ~$5 billion collections and encompasses over 50 company codes, territories, currencies, tax structures, and systems.

Process Governance

• Maintaining a strong relationship with internal stakeholders to drive improvements by designing, negotiating, and persuading business owners.
• Maintaining a strong relationship with key customers to address and resolve proactively (payment) issues that may occur.
• Manage & lead the O2C collections team and the BPO by providing clear guidance and goals.
• Work closely with GCFO and BPO leads in resolving and monitoring delivery services,
• Establish, monitor, and report end-to-end process metrics and KPIs to measure service levels, operational effectiveness, process health, and process compliance for both NBCU-wide and BPO-related
• Understand BPO SLA’s and deliverables and be able to execute accordingly
• Proactively monitor and anticipate changing business, regulatory, and financial requirements, processes, and practice
• Drive continuous and sustainable improvements
• Ensure adequate process documentation and training materials are developed and maintained.
• Liaise with BPO and GCFO leads on timely review and updates to the Desk Top Procedures, reports, and other activities.
• Flexible in performing ad hoc tasks

Control

• Drive to retain and develop key persons within the BPO together with the team lead(s) through mentoring, motivation, feedback, and learning opportunities.
• Take a proactive role in developing initiatives and setting objectives and systems to build the efficiency and effectiveness of the business and BPO. Develop supporting documentation for process descriptions and train team members on process, compliance, procedures, and system usage. Adhere to SOX, CGA, and Audit requirements
• Actively seek Voice of Customer, Customer Satisfaction, and implement required improvements

Technical & Process Support:

• Experience with SAP S/4 Hana is a pre
• Ability to navigate through large datasets
• Ability to translate processes to developers to enhance efficiency and automation

Other Responsibilities & Deliverables:

• Take part in medium to high-impact projects or lead projects for system implementations, client implementations (new scope transitions), and process improvements;
• This role works closely with the other Finance Operations Towers and is a unified department supporting each other’s goals and objectives.
• Be the champion to drive standardization across the process
• Provide insights, advice, and improvement opportunities for OTC Director Collections & Compliance.

People Management:

• Motivate positive working relations between GCFO, BPO, and business stakeholders.
• Steward of NBCU culture and values towards BPO and captive staff.
• Engage in Personal Development plan and training requirements.

Qualifications

Bachelor degree or equivalent in a finance related area (i.e. HEAO BE);

Proven experience in a similar position within an international environment (Entertainment industry preferred);

All round experienced credit management specialist with global coverage

Knowledge of international withholding taxes

Experienced people manager: proven ability to lead, motivate and inspire high performance within a high paced environment;

Persuasive communicator: proven ability to work across functions and manage key stakeholders, ability to ensure clarity of information, and to eliminate any ambiguity and confusion that may exist

Proactive coach and mentor, positive influencer: demonstrated background in developing team’s collective, and individual, skills;

Ability to lead an off-site team effectively;

Excellent problem solving & decision-making skills. Able to work to tight deadlines.

Ability to effectively present business initiatives and project plans

Proven Project management skills

Fluent in English, fluency in Spanish language is a preferable

Experienced CRM user (i.e. SAP)

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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