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About the Role
Our Treasury, Collections & Payments Manager
will be responsible for the end-to-end management of the company’s cash flow, liquidity position, collections and payment operations.
This role will lead a two-person Collections team, oversee daily and periodical cash-flow planning, improve collection performance and ensure that all payment obligations are executed accurately, securely and on time.
Key Responsibilities
Treasury and Cash-Flow Management
- Prepare and manage daily, weekly, monthly and long-term cash-flow forecasts.
- Monitor the company’s daily liquidity position, bank balances, expected collections and upcoming payment obligations.
- Consolidate cash-flow inputs received from relevant departments and ensure the accuracy and timeliness of forecasts.
- Identify potential cash shortages or surpluses in advance and present alternative scenarios and recommendations to senior management.
- Compare forecasted and actual cash flows, analyze variances and determine their underlying causes.
- Develop short-, medium- and long-term liquidity scenarios in line with the company’s operational and strategic plans.
- Monitor bank accounts, banking transactions, credit facilities, guarantees and other treasury-related instruments.
- Coordinate operational relationships with banks and financial institutions.
- Monitor liquidity, interest-rate and foreign-exchange exposure and provide management with timely assessments where relevant.
Collections and Receivables Management
- Lead, coach and manage the two-person Collections team, including workload planning, target setting and performance follow-up.
- Establish daily, weekly and monthly collection targets and closely monitor actual performance.
- Oversee customer receivables, upcoming due dates, overdue balances and high-risk accounts.
- Review accounts receivable aging reports and develop clear action plans for overdue and potentially doubtful receivables.
- Analyze customers’ payment behavior, overdue periods, risk levels and overall collection performance.
- Ensure proactive and professional communication with customers regarding outstanding balances and payment commitments.
- Coordinate collection-related actions with Sales, Operations, Accounting, Legal and other relevant teams.
- Manage payment-plan and debt-restructuring discussions when required and within the company’s approval framework.
- Ensure that collected amounts are accurately allocated to the correct customer accounts and invoices.
- Oversee regular customer account reconciliations and the timely resolution of discrepancies.
- Improve the accuracy of collection forecasts and ensure that reliable information is provided for cash-flow planning.
- Design and monitor team KPIs, including collection achievement, overdue receivables, aging distribution and follow-up effectiveness.
Payments Management
- Plan and oversee all company payment obligations, including supplier payments, rent, payroll, taxes, social security payments, employee expenses, investments, loan repayments and other liabilities.
- Ensure that payment requests comply with the company’s approval matrix, policies and internal-control requirements.
- Prioritize approved payments according to due dates, operational importance and the company’s available cash position.
- Prepare or oversee daily, weekly and monthly payment plans.
- Ensure that payment schedules remain fully aligned with cash-flow forecasts.
- Proactively identify upcoming financial obligations and inform relevant stakeholders of any potential risk or delay.
- Verify supporting documents, amounts, due dates, bank details and required approvals before payments are processed.
- Prevent duplicate, incorrect, unauthorized or insufficiently documented payments through effective control mechanisms.
- Prepare or coordinate bank payment instructions and ensure the completion of required authorization processes.
- Reconcile completed payments with bank transactions, accounting records and supporting documentation.
- Evaluate urgent or unplanned payment requests within the framework of liquidity availability and business priorities.
Reporting and Financial Control
- Prepare daily cash-position and bank-balance reports.
- Deliver weekly and monthly cash-flow, collections and payments reports to senior management.
- Analyze forecast-versus-actual cash-flow variances and present clear explanations and recommendations.
- Monitor collection performance through key indicators such as total receivables, overdue balances, collection rate, aging distribution and customer risk.
- Track payment performance, including on-time payment rates, delayed payments and unplanned payment requests.
- Provide financial analysis and decision-support reporting for management when required.
- Work closely with Finance and Accounting teams during month-end and year-end closing processes.
- Establish controls to ensure the accuracy and consistency of bank, collection, payment and customer-account records.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Banking or a related field.
- Minimum 7 years of professional experience in treasury, cash management, collections, receivables management or payment operations.
- At least 2 years of experience in managing a team or a comparable financial function.
- Strong experience in preparing and managing daily and periodical cash-flow forecasts.
- Solid knowledge of accounts receivable aging, customer-risk analysis and overdue-receivables management.
- Experience in managing high-volume and multi-category payment operations.
- Good understanding of banking transactions, liquidity management and financial risks.
- Proven experience in budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.
- Ability to read and interpret financial statements and translate financial data into actionable business insights.
- Strong command of ERP systems and financial reporting tools.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
- Strong analytical, reporting and presentation skills.
- Good command of written and spoken English is preferred.
- Based in or willing to relocate to Istanbul.
Why Join Us?
At Kolektif House, you will have the opportunity to take ownership of a high-impact financial function, build scalable systems and directly contribute to the company’s financial sustainability.
If you see cash flow as more than a report, collections as more than follow-up and payments as more than an operational transaction, we would love to hear from you.