The Company/Company Background

Swiss-based ARYZTA is an international food business with a leading position in frozen B2B bakery business in Europe and APAC. ARYZTA’s customer channels consist of grocery, convenience, quick service restaurants, bakeries and food service. Listed on the Swiss stock exchange, ARYZTA employs around 9,200 people today, with revenues of EUR 1.76bn in 2022.
After a successful and planned, yet significant, restructuring of the group structure, the business is now organized with Europe and APAC as geographic clusters with 26 bakeries in 27 countries.
ARYZTA Europe (EUR 1.53bn in 2022) has leading market positions in the bakery markets in Switzerland, Germany, France, Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, Denmark, Spain, Sweden, Romania and other European countries. In APAC (EUR 230m in 2022) we hold leading positions in ANZ, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore & Taiwan.
Europe Business Service Center plays a key role in overall Aryzta strategy for profitable growth through supporting the business driving the decisions and effective and efficient processes and controls management.

About the Role

• Creating and Implementing Global Credit Policy: Create and implement a global credit policy to standardise credit management practices across the organisation.
• Creating Credit Process: Design and establish a credit process that aligns with rules and guidelines.
• Setting Up ERP System (SAP): Implement and configure the ERP system (SAP) to support credit management activities.

• Driving Standardisation Across Units: Promote and drive the standardisation of credit processes across different business units.
• Planning and Executing Process Transition: Plan and execute the transition of credit processes from local business units to the business service centre.
• Evaluating Creditworthiness: Assess the creditworthiness of potential customers by analysing financial statements, credit reports, and payment histories to gauge risk levels.
• Setting Credit Policies and Limits: Establish credit policies and limits to manage the overall credit exposure of the company.
• Managing Credit Blocked Orders: Set rules in the system to block deliveries and manage the manual process of releasing them according to the approval matrix.
• Cooperation with Insurer: Act as a liaison between the company and the insurer, resolving any issues that may arise during the policy period.
• Reducing Late Payments: Detect and prevent late payments to reduce the possibility of defaults adversely impacting the business.
• Monitoring and Reporting: Continuously monitor the financial health of customers and adjust credit limits accordingly.
• Compliance and Reporting: Ensure compliance with the company's credit policy, reduce errors and inconsistencies, and enhance reporting, ensuring all necessary information is available and up-to-date for audits and other compliance requirements.

• Advanced proficiency with processing in ERPs (SAP)
• Knowledge of MS Office
• VBA & Power Automate (would be an asset)

• Fluent in English (advanced working proficiency required)
• Knowledge of other European languages is a plus.

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Finance & Accounting or similar would be an asset.

• Min. 5 years of relevant work experience in Accounting and/or Finance
• Strong work experience with execution of Accounts Receivable processes
• Work experience in a Shared Service Finance organisation
• Project management work experience

• Customer-centric mindset
• Effective communication and strong cooperation skills
• Great team player
• Process automation related skillset required

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