Accounts Receivable Analyst

We are PZ Cussons. Our purpose is
** For everyone, for life, for good**.Sustainability and the wellbeing of people, families and communities everywhere are at the heart of everything that we do.

Since our founding in 1884, we have been creating products to delight, care for and nourish consumers. Across our core categories of Hygiene, Baby and Beauty, our trusted and well-loved brands include Carex, Cussons Baby, Sanctuary Spa and St. Tropez.
** POSITION SNAPSHOT
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* Job title:

Finance Analyst (Credit Control)
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* Location:

Manchester
**** Contract type:
Permanent
**** WHO ARE WE
** PZ Cussons is an international consumer goods business, headquartered in Manchester, UK. We employ just under 2500 people across our operations in Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific and Africa. Since our founding in 1884, we have been creating products to delight, care for and nourish consumers. Across our core categories of Hygiene, Baby and Beauty, our trusted and well-loved brands include Carex, Childs Farm, Cussons Baby, Imperial Leather, Morning Fresh, Original Source, Premier, Sanctuary Spa and St.

Tropez.

Sustainability and the wellbeing of our employees and communities everywhere are at the heart of our business model and strategy and captured by our purpose:
** For Everyone, For Life, For Good.
** If you want to join a business in transformation with exciting growth plans and the opportunity to work flexibly and finish at 1pm every Friday, apply to work for us today.
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* Job Purpose:

** This role holds end-to-end accountability for the Order to Cash (OTC) process across the UK, Ireland and USA markets, ensuring strong financial governance, control, and insight to optimise working capital performance. Acting as the senior regional OTC specialist, the role provides leadership and expertise across a complex, multi-market landscape, directly influencing business performance and cash flow outcomes
** Function/Business Unit Overview:
** The Financial Control team for Europe is part of the Group Finance function based in Manchester supporting the PZ Cussons Leadership team as well as coordinating financial reporting, planning and control across the group.

There are three main areas under the Group Financial Control Director namely:
* Group Finance Control & Compliance.
* Financial Control by region
* Group Finance Operations (including our Finance Shared Service Centres).Globally there are three Financial Controllers, one Head of Financial Control & Compliance and one Head of Finance shared Service reporting directly to the Group Financial Control Director. This role is part of the Financial Control team for Europe and USA.###
** Reporting Relationships:
** The role will report directly to the Europe Head of Financial Control with an indirect reporting line to the OTC Tower Lead based in Indonesia.  The OTC Tower is part of a broader Finance Shared Services team.

Although the role has no formal direct reports, it provides functional leadership and direction to the UK-based OTC colleague and supports capability development across the global OTC network. You will play an active part in supporting, mentoring and coaching the local OTC colleague.###
** Job context & scope:
*** As an OTC Analyst, you play a pivotal role as a business partner. You will be a conduit between the OTC transactional team (based in Indonesia) with the non-transactional part of the OTC function by working with various internal  addition, you will also work with external stakeholders such as Customers, Auditors and other 3rd parties.
* You will be a local point of contact, due to your specialised and localised expertise and insight.
* You will have the OTC and commercial knowledge to support and advise stakeholders in the UK&I and USA entities, whilst recognising the need to represent, communicate and align with the wider Finance Shared Services team who are remote and work in a different time zone.
* You will be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for OTC UK&I and USA.Your skills and experience will be required to cover any activities impacted by the time zone difference with Indonesia, but also market-specific responsibilities as outlined in the job description.
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