Regional Credit Manager

In 1927 MATHESON Gas Products became the first company to offer a reliable source of high quality scientific gases and equipment. From the start, MATHESON asserted its leadership by understanding specialty gas applications and providing products specially designed for these applications.

Manage, supervise, direct and coordinate the activities and the overall efforts of workers engaged in collecting overdue payments for charge accounts from customers.

* Establish and maintain credit and collections processes which assist the locations in the collection of A/R according to Matheson Tri-Gas goals. * Manage and supervise the efforts of the regional/location employees collecting the open A/R, through reports, phone calls, visits and training. Prepare monthly charge-off reports to be sent to zone management for approval. Coordinate and over see the monthly A/R conference call. Travel to all locations in the region as needed to work with each employee assisting in the collection of open A/R. Supervise collection of overdue A/R for area of responsibility. Maintaining the A/R goal of no more than 5% delinquency of 60 day & older A/R and DSO’s at the Matheson Tri-Gas target level * Direct & communicate between the locations in & out of the region and with the corporate office in regards to customer accounts. Assist in preparing and training locations on how to complete daily/monthly reports for the corporate office. * Also responsible for approving and processing all customer credit applications within the designated region, as well as researching payment and account issues Working to keep the write-off of bad debt at the least amount, but not to exceed .05% of total gross location sales. * Responsible for delinquent accounts and following policies and procedures outlined by Matheson Tri-Gas along with any government entity to obtain payments. This responsibility consists of (but not limited to) contacting customers, verifying accounts. Upon completion of any repossession, bankruptcy and/or legal actions communicates information to the Controller. * Direct the continuous reengineering of processes and systems in conjunction credit collections with location. * Work with account managers to maintain sales and good customer relations.

**Skills and Abilities** * Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instruction, and procedure manuals. * Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. * Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees. * Ability to add, subtracts, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. * Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs. * Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. * Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations. * Ability to communicate effectively with customers and maintain positive attitude and good organizational skills. * Ability to use personal computer (word & excel) and corporate computer systems to input data and process information. * Understand and interpret non-verbal communication **Physical demands** * The employee is regularly required to talk or hear (e.g. relaying to employees, phone calls). * The employee frequently is required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel (e.g. computer work). * The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. * The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. * Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus (e.g. troubleshooting welding problems, driving). **Education:** * Four year College degree in business or related field and/or commensurate equivalent experience. **Experience:** * 3 to 5 years of previous credit management experience or equivalent. **Certifications/Licensures:** * Valid Driver’s License * Preferred, National Institute of credit credentialing programs; (BA, CBF, CCE).