Credit director
Lafarge Canada Inc. based in Laval, QC is inviting applications from suitable candidates for the position of Credit director. Lafarge Canada Inc is a leading supplier of construction materials, including cement, concrete, and aggregates. The company supports infrastructure and residential projects. As part of Lafarge Holcim, it focuses on delivering sustainable solutions. Lafarge works to reduce environmental impact while meeting market demands. It plays a key role in modern construction by providing high-performance materials. The candidates selected for the vacancy will be required to start the work as soon as possible.
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Job Description:
Employer Name: Lafarge Canada Inc
Position: Credit director
No of Vacancies: 3
Salary: Salary is not mentioned, $50.00 – $55.00 hourly estimated salary
Employment Type: Full time
Location: Laval, QC
Job ID: 7895
Requirements:
Languages: Candidates must have knowledge of the English and French Language
Education:Â Candidates should have completion of a Bachelor’s degree in business administration
Experience: Candidates should have a minimum of five years of experience in a construction credit environment, with progressive roles in the field
Other Requirements:
- The candidates should possess strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret financial data
- The candidates should have skills with an ERP system, ideally SAP and demonstrate an interest in process improvement, ideally with relevant experience
- The candidates should be able to influence, develop, and maintain strategic relationships and lead effective change in a complex, multi-product line environment
- The candidates should have strong working knowledge of credit principles and best practices and a strong understanding of construction industry collections, financial liens, and claims
- The candidates should possess strong communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with both internal and external clients and work in a dynamic, high-volume environment that requires adapting to changing conditions
- The candidates should be analytical, goal-oriented, customer-oriented, and business-savvy and bilingual in English and French
- The candidates should demonstrate strong business acumen, intellectual power, and courage as managers and display organizational flexibility, strategic thinking, and a results-oriented approach
Responsibilities:
- The candidates should be able to serve as a role model for safety, leadership, teamwork, customer focus, and continuous improvement to ensure alignment with the company vision and critical success factors
- The candidates should be able to lead credit and collections activities for their market area, in accordance with company expectations and in compliance with credit policies, including approvals, risk management, timely collections, resolution of collection issues, negotiation and taking of collateral, litigation, maximization of recovery of financing costs, and bankruptcy proceedings
- The candidates should be able to determine appropriate recovery or retention measures for problem accounts when centralized recovery efforts have been exhausted and process credit approvals, bad debt write-offs, and dispute resolution and determine the adequacy of the allowance for doubtful accounts and recommend adjustments
- The candidates should be able to perform monitoring functions, including monitoring and maintaining appropriate credit limits for established accounts, local and regional economic conditions, market and industry trends, and chronologically classified accounts of market sector customers to ensure appropriate action is taken
- The candidates should be able to ensure compliance with credit policy while supporting and consulting with their market area for collections, processing of credit applications, payment requests, and taking the lead on strategic or difficult customer accounts to limit the risk of credit losses
- The candidates should be able to establish and maintain a close working relationship with the ABS Central Credit and Collections team to help maximize the performance of that team and ensure that Financial Services meets its collection targets and lead process efficiency and simplification with the ABS team on automation and digital transformation
- The candidates should be able to facilitate process and control improvements while maintaining alignment and standardization, and lead the process improvement plan for each and improve the company’s health and safety culture by demonstrating visible support for OHS policies and procedures
- The candidates should be able to establish a credit service and performance that provides a competitive advantage in the company’s markets and exposure in customer accounts, ensuring compliance with credit policy and best practices and manage overall credit or collection functions and performance for all parties and ensure stakeholders are well informed and have all necessary information to carry out their tasks
- The candidates should be able to interact frequently with GMs, sales and operations staff, regional credit managers, the Eastern Canada Finance team, ABS staff (Credit and Collections, Accounts Receivable Services), and sales support staff
- The candidates should be able to manage direct reports (2) and oversee product lines (Aggregates and RMX), ensuring collections of approximately $25 million in accounts receivable per month
How to apply:
If the position is fit for you and the basic requirements are fulfilled then you can now apply directly to the employer (along with your resume) through the below-mentioned details.
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