KC Finance Credit Supervisor

Job description

It's more than a job As a finance professional at Kuehne+Nagel, your work includes managing budgets, strategic planning, and overseeing financial operations. You also help make ordinary and special moments possible for people around the world. Because your financial diligence allows your colleagues across the company to stay focused on the core of their work, whether it's getting vital healthcare products to those who need them or fresh fruit to children playing in the park.

Finance work at Kuehne+Nagel, means more than we imagine. ‎ Lead the Credit Control function, ensuring effective credit risk management, compliance with financial policies, and timely escalation of critical exposures across the North American market. In this role, you will lead the Credit Control team while ensuring credit decisions support both financial risk management and business continuity.

How you create impact Lead Credit Control operations

Supervise the team, ensuring credit control activities, pending cases, releases, and escalations are managed accurately and in line with financial policies.

Manage credit limits and exposure

Analyze credit limits, unsecured exposures, and credit-related risks, identifying opportunities to optimize available credit lines while maintaining appropriate risk controls.

Understand the business impact of credit

Assess how credit limits and credit decisions can affect shipments and business operations, ensuring timely communication and escalation when a credit issue may impact a load.

Support the North American market

Manage credit-related activities for North America, working closely with relevant stakeholders and applying knowledge of internal systems and credit processes.

Lead and develop the team

Provide guidance, coaching, and support to Credit Control Specialists while fostering effective communication, collaboration, and a high-performance team culture. What we would like you to bring Professional degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field, with relevant experience in Accounts Receivable, Credit Control, or Credit Risk. Strong knowledge of Credit Management and Credit Risk, including how credit limits work, how credit lines can be optimized, and how credit decisions can impact business operations and shipments.

Experience working with internal financial systems, particularly ACON, and the ability to understand and navigate credit-related processes and information. Proven people leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with the Credit team and escalate relevant situations when required. B2+ English level is essential, combined with strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and decision-making skills.

What's in it for you Lead a Credit Control operation supporting the North American market. Develop your leadership capabilities while managing and developing a specialized Credit team. Gain exposure to Credit Risk, Accounts Receivable, business operations, and financial decision-making. Make a direct impact by balancing credit risk management with business continuity. Work in an international environment where collaboration, service excellence, and continuous improvement are key to the business.

Who we are Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world. As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference.

Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine. We kindly advise that placement agencies refrain from submitting unsolicited profiles. Any submissions of candidates without prior signed agreement will be considered our property and no fees will be paid.