About the role

We're a tire and wheel trading company with our own brands manufactured overseas. Our Alabang office runs the accounting for our US business, and you'll own the receivables side of it - what customers owe us, what actually comes in, and whether those two ever disagree without someone noticing.
You'll lead a team of six AR and collections specialists, organized into two groups: one working collections, the other working cash application and payment-type reconciliation. Collections is primarily wholesale and retail, and wholesale is where the balances and the risk concentrate.
You'll report directly to our US Controller. There is no manager layer between you and them. That means real autonomy on the day-to-day and real accountability for what the aging looks like.
The shift runs on US Pacific business hours - start time sits between 11:00 PM and 12:00 midnight Manila, shifting with US daylight saving. That's deliberate. Collections is a phone job, and you can't collect from customers who are asleep.

What you'll do

Collect. Own the aging on wholesale and retail. Prioritize by exposure, not alphabetically. Call the accounts that move the number, and write follow-ups that produce a payment date instead of a reply. Know the difference between a customer with a cash problem and a customer with a dispute they haven't mentioned yet.
Get the cash applied cleanly. Payments arrive by ACH, wire, check, and card, and they rarely arrive with clean remittance detail. Your team applies them, clears unapplied cash, and reconciles receipts by payment type back to the bank and to Odoo. Unapplied cash sitting on the balance sheet is a collections problem wearing an accounting costume.
Work the deductions. Wholesale customers short-pay - claims, RMA credits, promo and rebate deductions, freight chargebacks. Each one is either a credit we legitimately owe or a receivable we're about to lose through neglect. Drive them to resolution, and make sure the recurring patterns get back to Sales and Operations instead of dying in your queue.
Own the customer record. Create and maintain customer profiles in Odoo - address changes, banking detail updates, tax and payment-term changes. The accuracy of that data is what makes collections, cash application, and credit decisions possible in the first place.
Manage credit exposure. Review credit applications, monitor limits, and recommend holds and releases. You build the case with the numbers; the US Controller approves. Where an account is heading toward agency placement, legal referral, or write-off, you document it and recommend - the US takes it from there.
Report the truth. Aging, DSO, cash collection forecast, and bad-debt reserve recommendations, on a cadence your US counterparts can plan around. Surface deterioration while the balance is still collectable, not after.
Lead the team. Six people across two functions. Balance the load, cross-train so no account or process has a single point of failure, and coach on why an error happened rather than quietly fixing it yourself.

What success looks like

DSO trending down against an agreed baseline
Past-due AR shrinking as a share of total AR, with wholesale tracked separately
Unapplied cash cleared within the month it's received
Receipts reconcile to the bank by payment type every month, with no unexplained items aging
Deductions resolved or written off inside an agreed window - nothing quietly aging in a queue
Credit holds acted on before shipment, not after
Customer profile changes - address, banking, terms - processed accurately and without unnecessary delay
No collectable balance lost to inaction
Your team's error rate goes down each quarter

What you need

Required

Bachelor's degree in Accountancy, Accounting Technology, Finance, or similar
7+ years in Accounts Receivable, including 3+ years managing a team of five or more
Direct experience collecting US B2B trade receivables - calling US customers, negotiating payment arrangements, working disputes to closure
Background in distribution, trading, wholesale, or a comparable high-volume goods business
Strong grasp of the full order-to-cash cycle: credit, invoicing, cash application, deductions, and reserves
Comfortable reconciling receipts across payment types - ACH, wire, check, and card - back to the bank
Experience creating and maintaining customer master records in an ERP - address, banking, and payment-term updates
Strong Excel: lookups, pivots, reconciling large data sets
Clear spoken and written English. You'll be on the phone with US customers and writing to US management
Able to work onsite in Alabang on a night shift aligned to US Pacific business hours

Nice to have

Odoo experience, especially Accounting and Sales
Multi-entity AR experience
Experience with credit applications, trade references, and commercial credit reporting tools
Experience preparing accounts for third-party collection agencies or legal referral
Shared services experience, or an ERP migration under your belt

Who does well here

People who can be firm with a customer on Tuesday and still have the relationship on Wednesday. Who treat an unexplained short-pay as a question rather than an annoyance. Who can decide alone at 3:00 AM Manila time and know which single item is genuinely worth escalating. And who would rather deliver bad news about an account early than hope it resolves itself.

The honest part

It's a night shift, and the start time moves by an hour twice a year with US daylight saving. Month-end and year-end are heavier. You'll report to a manager fifteen hours away, and you won't have a local boss to check with - the autonomy is real, and so is the exposure that comes with it. If that works for you, the rest of the role is a strong one: a team to build, a portfolio with direct leverage on company cash, and processes you'll get to fix rather than just operate.