Senior Accounts Receivable Collections Specialist

Maersk Line India Pvt Ltd; Chennai; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Maersk Line India Pvt Ltd is seeking an experienced Senior AR Collections Specialist to manage complex accounts with advanced collection techniques and reconciliation skills. The role focuses on portfolio management, DSO performance, and cross-functional issue resolution within a high-risk, escalation-sensitive environment.

Responsibilities include leading complex AR cases, performing in-depth analyses of aging and disputes, and driving resolution with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience with ERP/AR platforms is preferred.
• Portfolio-specific systems may include SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, MACS, NODUM.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex, high-value or high-risk AR cases requiring advanced collection expertise.
• Perform complex customer-account reconciliation and root-cause investigation.
• Analyse aging, overdue exposures, disputes and payment behavior to define resolution actions.
• Investigate complex disputes and payment issues and drive closure with relevant owners.
• Troubleshoot issues across systems, transactions and customer accounts.
• Identify control, process and data-quality gaps contributing to recurring overdue.
• Provide technical guidance to collectors and support capability development.
• Coach colleagues on complex reconciliation and collection cases.
• Support or lead escalations requiring deeper AR expertise.
• Translate account-level issues into actionable recommendations for management.
• Support process/control improvement and standardization.

Skills

Advanced AR collections

Root-cause analysis

Portfolio management

Customer relationships

DSO/aging analysis

Cross-functional issue resolution

Technical problem solving

Coaching/mentoring

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

SAP ECC

MACS

NODUM

Job description

OTC Specialist - Collections Job Description Summary

The Senior AR Collections Specialist provides advanced AR and Collections expertise for complex, high-risk and escalation-sensitive customer accounts. The role combines portfolio management with complex reconciliation, root-cause analysis and technical problem resolution and acts as a subject-matter resource to collectors and other AR colleagues. Additional activities needed to perform include own complex AR portfolios, customer relationships, DSO/aging performance, cross-functional issue resolution and root-cause improvement.

Key responsibilities

• Manage complex, high-value or high-risk AR cases requiring advanced collection expertise.
• Perform complex customer-account reconciliation and root-cause investigation.
• Analyse aging, overdue exposures, disputes and payment behavior to define resolution actions.
• Investigate complex disputes and payment issues and drive closure with relevant owners.
• Troubleshoot issues across systems, transactions and customer accounts.
• Identify control, process and data-quality gaps contributing to recurring overdue.
• Provide technical guidance to collectors and support capability development.
• Coach colleagues on complex reconciliation and collection cases.
• Support or lead escalations requiring deeper AR expertise.
• Translate account-level issues into actionable recommendations for management.
• Support process/control improvement and standardization.

ERP / systems

Experience with major ERP/AR platforms strongly preferred. Portfolio-specific systems may include SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, MACS, NODUM among others.

Shift

Shift Mexico: 18:30-03:30 IST Brazil: 15:30-00:30 IST Candidates must be able to work the applicable shift supporting LAM operations.

Business scope

Position may support Ocean, Logistics & Services (L&S), and/or Aliança , depending on assigned portfolio.

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Experience Level

Mid Level