Senior Credit Analyst

Job Description

Our client, located in the northern suburbs of Chicago, is looking for a Senior Credit Analyst to be responsible for maintaining the credit risk associated with sales revenue and conducting all credit and collection functions, which includes assisting the Credit Supervisor in maximizing review approval rates while minimizing past dues.

• Provide quantitative and qualitative information and analysis to formulate credit practices.
• Assist in generating periodic reports on delinquencies and assessing the effectiveness of collection partner(s).
• Analyze customer and supplier financial statements to determine viability of customers and assess credit worthiness. Calculates financial metrics and ratios, identifies performance risks.
• Work closely with the Credit Supervisor to monitor compliance with collections policies, procedures, and results.
• Reports on credit worthiness of customers through credit applications, D&B, S&P, Moody's, NACM, and financial statements.
• Under moderate supervision while monitoring customer activity and recommends revisions to credit levels and limits as needed.
• Investigates order holds due to credit issues and recommends resolutions in a timely manner.
• Conducts and investigates open items leading to past due invoices, communicates with customers to gather information, and seeks payment on accounts in arrears.
• Incumbent will need to work within deadlines and outside regularly scheduled hours, including rotating weekends on-call.

• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Proficient in MS Office Suite, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• SAP/S4 & Salesforce preferred.
• Regularly communicates both in writing and verbally.
• Communicates with internal and external customers and others related to work function such as a vendor. Information exchanged generally requires intermediate knowledge.
• May work with increasingly complex challenges or problems.
• Work entails detailed planning of own activities and immediate work team. Requires using some logic, judgment, option identification and critical thinking skills to assess situations.