Working Capital Consultant/Manager

Our client is a global leading management consulting firm.

As a Working Capital Manager you will:

• be a member of the Working Capital Management team;
• be required to deliver working capital reviews and improvement projects focusing on Order-to-Cash and Purchase-to-Pay process areas and contribute to the business development process;
• combine operational project delivery with team building responsibilities;
• be responsible for:
  • reviewing process improvements, re-engineering business processes and ensuring interim management. As the larger projects are typically multi-territory, it is essential that candidates should be flexible and willing to work away from home occasionally;
  • providing expert strategic advice, support and project management services to clients facing working capital management issues;
  • identifying key market trends and innovations and developing contribution and approach to these;
  • identifying and managing sales targeting exercises towards selected key clients and further developing existing and potential key client relationships;
  • coaching and growing a team of working capital consultants via training, development, motivation and supervision on complex client assignments.

Keywords: Working Capital Manager, master in BA/Economics, 3-6 years of experience, Eng + Fr/Nl, Order-to-Cash, Purchase-to-Pay

As a Working Capital Manager you have:

• a master's degree in Business Administration, Economics or similar;
• 3 to 6 years of relevant experience and ideally hands-on experience with working capital initiatives and/or large cash optimisation or credit management projects;
• fluent language skills in Dutch and/or French and English;
• the ability to attain success in implementations, achieving savings and overcoming various challenges;
• excellent client relationship management skills, good negotiation and facilitations skills;
• the ability to work in and promote a team spirit environment and work with minimum supervision and to strict deadlines;
• the habit of interacting with senior management;
• a high level of cultural intelligence;
• the ability to analyse situations, making the most of available information, to provide a coherent summary of the current position and logical and imaginative recommendations for improvements;
• a pragmatic and problem-solving approach;
• knowledge and/or experience in the following fields:
  • A/R, Order-to-Cash, Credit management;
  • A/P, Purchase-to-Pay;
  • inventory management;
  • working capital;
  • financial value chain management.

Our client offers you:

• a competitive salary;
• interesting fringe benefits;
• a multidisciplinary environment with challenging career prospects;
• continuous education and on-the-job training.

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