Collection (Analyst) - Vietnamese Speaker

Do you want to work with passionate teams, providing excellent business and digital services to the Asia Pacific region?

Do you want an open, supportive, and caring working environment?

Do you view your development needs seriously as we do?

If YES, then take your career to the #NextLevel with BASF !

Objectives of the Position

• Responsible for execution of collection activities for assigned customer/country portfolio following global and regional guidelines, policies and procedures
• To ensure deliveries meeting requirements defined in service level agreement and KPIs/targets for process efficiency, effectiveness and quality control
•  Close collaboration with Customer Service Stakeholders and global counterparts to ensure smooth processes

Main Areas of Responsibilities and Key Activities

Functional Tasks (including but not limited to):

• Manage daily overdue worklist by performing collection calls/mails and document customer contacts results for assigned country/customer portfolios

• Identify disputes and provide solution through close collaboration with Accounts Receivables unit, Credit Risk managers and sales or customer service organization of business units

• Support Credit Risk Management teams concerning individual/ad hoc requests in the area of active reminding activities, collection strategy, order block management and others

• Work closely with Senior Analyst, Assistant Manager and Manager in daily operations to achieve defined objectives and targets

• Discuss follow up measures with team-internal and with related counterparties based on regular reporting of active reminding activities for first level of escalation

• Participating in training activities to continuously improve and enhance knowledge, technical and communication skills

Compliance:

• Participate in any compliance audits and respond to audit queries (for both internal and external)

• Ensure all work documentation and work processes are updated and met with BASF policies & guideline, local company’s policy, legal and statutory requirements

Quality and Continuous Improvement:

• Identify, recommend, and implement continuous improvement opportunities in quality and efficiency to support smooth implementation

• Prepare training materials and conduct end user trainings when required

• Support new and existing team members through proper knowledge transfer; and sharing of best practice thereby ensuring quality is maintained through any staff transition

Others:

• Support Business Continuity Plan (BCP) through resource planning, backup and communication

• Any other tasks due to Service Hub KL management strategy and/ or changing business environment may require to be performed

Additionally, for Associate Analyst:

• Act as country cluster to coordinate for certain countries on collection related activities and act as the first level of escalation

• Act as Area of Competency (AOC) member or topic owner for Collection Services processes

• Support Internal, Regional and Global projects as and when required

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Finance/ Accounting or related disciplines or Professional qualification in Finance (e.g., ACCA, CPA, etc.)

Working Experience & Skills

• Fresh graduate with Bachelor’s Degree in Finance/ Accounting or related disciplines
• Diploma with minimum 1-2 years working experience in related fields
• External experience in a shared service or business process outsourcing engagement will be an added advantage
• Good interpersonal skills to communicate to service recipients
• Good time management, good organization skills and multi-tasking skills
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, and to excel under pressure for meeting any tight deadlines

Technical & Professional Knowledge

• Knowledge of MS Office Applications, especially MS Word, Excel and Power Point
• Knowledge of SAP Systems will be an added advantage
• Proficiency in English and other languages required
• Knowledge in programing or scripting are an added advantage but not mandatory

BASF Asia-Pacific Service Centre was established in 2005. Located in Kuala Lumpur, the regional service hub has about 1,200 employees and growing. Focused on being a competency and digitalization driven hub, it also provides quality functional and know-how services in the areas of finance, controlling, human resources, real estate and facilities management, communications, environmental, health and safety, procurement, import-export order management, and information services to BASF companies and affiliates in the Asia Pacific region. BASF also has two other regional hubs located in Berlin, Germany, and Montevideo, Uruguay that cover the Europe and Americas regions.

At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. Around 112,000 employees in the BASF Group contribute to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio comprises six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care and Agricultural Solutions. BASF generated sales of €68.9 billion in 2023. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchange in Frankfurt (BAS) and as American Depositary Receipts (BASFY) in the U.S. Further information at www.basf.com.