Accounts Receivable Manager

Kantar China Ltd; Porto; Hybrid; EUR 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Kantar is seeking an Accounts Receivable Manager in Porto to lead the Q2C process across markets, focusing on billing, collections, and cash optimisation. You will coordinate with Finance and local teams to ensure accurate invoicing and robust collection practices.

The role requires strong leadership, experience with large customer accounts, and fluency in English. The position supports cross-market transformation initiatives and operates in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Degree in Management/Accounting/Business Administration or equivalent.
• Solid understanding of billing, collections, cash flow and customer-account reconciliation.
• Experience with large and complex customer accounts.
• Fluent English.
• Clear leadership and able to shape future decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the team of Q2C - Credit and Collections Analysts.
• Oversee billing-related issues and work with commercial and local Finance teams to ensure invoices are raised accurately and promptly.
• Provide guidance to business stakeholders to assist with unlocking specific collection issues or resolving disputes.
• Guarantee efficient collections, maximize cash flow, reduce overdue payments, and decrease bad debt write-offs.
• Coordinate and calculate rebate requirements for global clients, including review of commercial agreements and estimated rebate percentages.
• Monitor Customer Performance Indicators (CPIs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Supervise the accurate and timely application of customer payments.
• Support cash forecasting activities.
• Coordinate with accounting teams to ensure accurate reporting.
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations and company policies.

Skills

Leadership

Billing & Collections

Cash Flow Management

Education

Degree in Management/Accounting/Business Administration or equivalent

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.

Our Functions teams are right at the centre of our business, making sure we can always get better, every day. Supporting the business with things like Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Legal and Technology, our Functions colleagues are skilled professionals whose role it is to ensure we continue to become an indispensable partner to brands everywhere.

Job Details

Role Overview

The Accounts Receivable Manager is responsible for overseeing key Quote-to-Cash activities across multiple markets, with particular focus on billing, collections, cash optimisation and operational controls. The role provides coordination across Finance, local market teams and operational teams to ensure effective billing and collection processes, appropriate management of AR risk, and resolution of complex customer-account issues.

The role also supports Q2C transformation initiatives and cross-market finance projects, including e-invoicing, collections technology and global client rebate processes.

Role Description

• - Responsible for leading and developing the team of Q2C - Credit and Collections Analysts
• - Oversee billing-related issues and work with commercial and local Finance teams to ensure invoices are raised accurately and promptly.
• - Provide guidance to business stakeholders to assist with unlocking specific collection issues or resolving disputes
• - Guarantee efficient collections, maximize cash flow, reduce overdue payments, and decrease bad debt write-offs.
• - Coordinate and calculate rebate requirements for global clients, including review of commercial agreements and estimated rebate percentages.
• - Monitor Customer Performance Indicators (CPIs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• - Supervise the accurate and timely application of customer payments.
• - Support cash forecasting activities.
• - Coordinate with accounting teams to ensure accurate reporting.
• - Ensure compliance with financial regulations and company policies.

Role Requirements & Capabilities

• - Degree in Management/Accounting/Business Administration or equivalent
• - Solid understanding of billing, collections, cash flow and customer-account reconciliation
• - Experience with large and complex customer accounts
• - Fluent English
• - Clear leadership and able to shape future decisions.
• - Adapts to change objectives and priorities to deliver results.
• - Clear communication within the company missions and values
• - Willingness to work flexibly across geographic time zones during peak periods such as period end
• - Knowledge of key business process technologies, including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems
• - Self-disciplined with ability to work independently and under stress and pressure, target and result driven, energetic and driven with areal handon approach to the job.
• - Experience in managing remotely and large teams.
• - Ability to manage process improvements and finance transformation initiatives

Please be aware, the majority of our roles are hybrid, working three days a week in our office.

We’re not able to offer visa sponsorship or help with relocation support for this role. Please make sure you’ve got the right to work in the country where this role is located before applying.

Why join Kantar?

Kantar is one of the most recognised and trusted brands in its industry, with unmatched depth of experience and global reach. What makes this moment different is how much is changing at once.

We are working on the world’s most influential brands, investing in AI and technology, and evolving how intelligence is delivered. The work is becoming more connected, more dynamic and more impactful.

People joining Kantar now are not stepping into something finished. They are joining a business that is evolving, and they will help shape what comes next.

If you want to work on iconic brands, solve complex problems, learn from exceptional people and do work that genuinely makes a difference, we would love to hear from you.

Country

Portugal

Why join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.