Motion Group Accounts Receivable Manager

**Motion Group Accounts Receivable Manager - Asia Pacific**

**Our Business and Culture**

With a proud history in Australia and New Zealand's automotive and engineering industries, our more than 6,000 team members benefit from almost a century of knowledge, experience, and passion. Our name, Genuine Parts Company, provides a clue to the foundation of our success. We genuinely care for our people. Our brands are synonymous with quality and reliability in the automotive aftermarket and have enormous recognition across our region.

**Our Values**
- We are passionate about what we do
- We go the extra mile
- We relentlessly pursue excellence
- We will win together
- We genuinely care
- We inspire innovation

**Role Purpose**

The Motion Group Accounts Receivable Manager - Asia Pacific will be the functional leader for Accounts Receivable (AR) across all Motion Group businesses in the region.

The Group Accounts Receivable (AR) Manager for Asia Pacific will play a pivotal role in leading and managing the AR function across the region.

This role is responsible for streamlining and optimizing the AR processes, ensuring compliance with company policies, improving operational efficiency, and contributing to cost-saving initiatives. This includes ensuring the timely, accurate, and efficient processing of customer orders, invoicing, collections, and credit management.

The Group AR Manager will lead and develop a high-performing team, drive continuous process improvement, and ensure adherence to global policies and compliance standards, while optimizing working capital and enhancing customer satisfaction.

The Group AR Manager will be instrumental in leading Group Finance's aspirations for one finance shared services for APAC using common technology and business processes.

**Key Responsibility Areas (KRA)**

**Leadership & Team Management**
- Lead and manage the AR team across the APAC region, ensuring high performance, development of team members, and alignment with global and regional business objectives
- Provide coaching, mentorship, and guidance to the AR team to enhance operational efficiency, reduce errors, and improve overall team performance
- Establish clear performance expectations, conduct regular performance reviews, and implement development plans for team members
- Collaborate with global and regional colleagues across procurement, finance, and business teams to ensure alignment of P2P processes with organizational goals

**AR Process Optimization**
- Standardize and optimize AR processes across the APAC region, ensuring alignment with global best practices and company policies
- Drive automation initiatives within the AR function, leveraging ERP systems and technology to streamline workflows and improve the customer experience

**Credit & Collections Management**:

- Monitor and manage customer credit risk across the APAC region, ensuring timely credit assessments and effective credit limit management
- Implement and enforce robust collections strategies to reduce overdue receivables and bad debt
- Collaborate with sales and customer service teams to resolve customer disputes and ensure timely collections

**Compliance & Risk Management**:

- Ensure compliance with adherence to corporate governance, regulatory requirements, and audit requirements across all AR activities in the APAC region
- Work closely with the finance and internal audit teams to conduct regular assessments and address any risks or control gaps related to AR activities
- Support information requests, sample testing and all associated requests from external auditors

**Stakeholder Engagement & Reporting**:

- Serve as a key point of contact for senior leadership by providing regular updates and reports on AR performance, KPIs, improvement initiatives and customer account status to senior leadership and key stakeholders
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders, including Sales, Customer Service, Finance, Regional Management teams and global counterparts globally, to support cross-functional collaboration and issue resolution
- Lead the preparation and presentation of AR performance reports, KPIs, and regional/global AR analytics to senior management and other stakeholders
- Develop process-level detailed reporting to identify and implement process improvement

**Cash Flow management**:

- Drive initiatives to optimize working capital by improving Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) and reducing overdue accounts.
- Monitor cash flow and forecast receivables, ensuring alignment with financial targets and business needs
- Provide recommendations to senior leadership on strategies for improving cash flow and managing financial risks related to customer payments

**Continuous Improvement and Change Management**:

- Take a Lead role in AR transformation or optimization projects, including system upgrades, process re
- engineering, and implementation of new technology solutions
- Ensure successful change management b