About This Role
This senior manager role focuses on owning collections for the company's EMI affordability business with brand partners like Samsung Mobile and Vivo. It covers the full cycle from monthly reconciliation with Finance to MIS reporting, invoicing, payment tracking, and collection. The person will work closely with internal teams and external brand stakeholders to quickly resolve reconciliation differences, ensuring timely invoicing and collections.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate with Finance to complete reconciliation for each brand
- Identify mismatches and drive them to closure with internal and external stakeholders
- Ensure reconciliation is signed off before invoicing
- Maintain records of open items, root causes, and resolutions
- Create and maintain brand-wise MIS covering reconciliation status, invoicing, outstanding amounts, and collections
- Publish periodic MIS to business, Sales, and Finance leadership
- Track receivables ageing, delays, and recurring disputes, and flag risks early
- Coordinate with brands, Sales Managers, and Finance to raise accurate, on-time invoices after reconciliation closure
- Ensure brand and compliance requirements (documentation, approvals, tax details)
- Follow up on invoice acceptance and queries
- Track brand-wise amounts invoiced, received, pending, and ageing
- Run a structured follow-up process for timely collection
- Escalate delayed or disputed payments
- Work with Finance to match receipts against invoices
- Act as a single point of coordination between Finance, Sales, Business teams, and brand partners
- Build strong relationships with brand counterparts
- Manage multiple brands and timelines in parallel
Requirements
- 6-12 years of experience
- Strong coordination and follow-up across internal and external stakeholders
- Analytical mindset and attention to detail in resolving reconciliation mismatches
- Clear written and verbal communication, including with brand finance and senior stakeholders
- Ownership of multiple brands and deadlines in a monthly cycle
- Negotiation and escalation skills to close disputes and pending payments
- Understanding of invoicing, GST, and basic accounting
- Hands-on monthly reconciliation and invoicing experience
- Strong Excel / Google Sheets (pivots, lookups, reconciliation models) and MIS
- Exposure to dashboards
Important Details
- Timely closure of monthly reconciliation for all brands
- Invoices raised within agreed timeline after reconciliation
