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Job Number #174166 - Del.Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City, Mexico
Who We Are
Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specialising in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!
Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.
Are you a finance professional with a talent for risk assessment, negotiation, and protecting corporate cash flow? As a Cash, Credit & Collections Analyst, you will manage the end-to-end monitoring, evaluation, and optimization of customer credit risk, proactive collections management, and accurate cash application. Reporting directly to the Credit-to-Cash (C2C) Team Lead, you will act as a critical business partner between commercial sales, finance, and logistics teams to minimize Days Sales Outstanding (DSO), mitigate bad debt risk, and secure vital working capital. By pairing financial statement evaluation with strong negotiation skills, you will enforce credit policies, safeguard internal controls, and actively support digital accounting automation initiatives.
Credit Evaluation & Risk Mitigation: Analyze customer financial statements, credit agency reports, and payment trends to establish corporate credit limits, while actively managing orders-on-hold and credit block release workflows.
Proactive Collections Strategy: Own the collections execution for an assigned accounts receivable portfolio, driving regular client follow-ups via phone, email, and billing portals to aggressively reduce past-due balances.
Cash Application & Exception Management: Oversee the daily processing and accurate validation of incoming electronic payments (ACH, wires, checks), coordinating with customer accounts payable teams to secure missing remittance advice.
Workflow Seperation & Deductions Hand-off: Identify customer short-payments and cleanly segregate promotional, pricing, or shortage deductions to hand off to the Deductions Analyst team with clear traceability.
Month-End Analysis & Compliance: Participate in month-end closing activities by compiling aging commentaries, updating cash forecasting data, and maintaining robust reconciliation documentation to satisfy internal and external audit controls.
Continuous Improvement Readiness: Partner with cross-functional execution teams to streamline collections communication templates, map transactional workflows, and support the integration of automated AI cash-matching tools or RPA bots.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a closely related field.
Experience: 1+ years of professional experience operating within Accounts Receivable (AR), Credit/Collections, or general administrative finance processing functions (open to fresh graduates with relevant corporate internship experience).
Technical Skillset: Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs, data formatting) coupled with a solid foundational familiarity navigating major ERP systems (such as SAP or Oracle).
Core Capabilities: Strong negotiation, conflict resolution, and financial problem-solving skills, with the ability to communicate firmly yet professionally with external clients.
CPG Exposure: Background working within a fast-paced corporate environment, specifically supporting a global Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) or fast-moving consumer goods business model.
Digital Systems Familiarity: Prior experience utilizing customer portals, digital credit-scoring modules, or working directly with automated accounts receivable software.
Process Standardization Focus: An adaptive, continuous-learning mindset with a strong motivation to contribute to cross-functional data transparency and workflow standardization.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
Our journey begins with our people—developing strong talent with diverse backgrounds and perspectives to best serve our consumers around the world and fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels a true sense of belonging. We are dedicated to ensuring that each individual can be their authentic self, is treated with respect, and is empowered by leadership to contribute meaningfully to our business.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.
Reasonable accommodation during the application process is available for persons with disabilities. Please complete this request form should you require accommodation.
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