Howard C. Cathey Email & Phone Number

Alpharetta, GA, US

Alpharetta, Georgia, US

San Francisco, California, US

• Strengthen operations by actively managing Global Order to Cash Billing, Collections, and Credit departments to improve scalability structure, reduce risk and bad debt, and craft effective departmental policies
• Optimize performance via Netsuite by creating global billing, AR, and credit processes, policies, metrics, and procedures to streamline operations
• Set multiple company quarter and year-end cash collection records by managing billed/invoiced to collect $2B+ in receivables, resulting in YoY 3% net gain in accomplishing receivables goals
• Improve financial performance by administering innovative models to reduce bad debt by 3% in year 1
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by automating, streamlining, and standardizing Global O2C processes to reduce DSO by 15 days.
• Maximize profitability by implementing predictive models for cash forecasting and dynamic receivables management to increase annual collections by 23%

San Francisco, California, US

• Managed Global Order to Cash departments involving scalability structure, escalation actions, and crafting departmental policies
• Managed Global Order to Cash and Credit departments by streamlining structure, overseeing escalation actions, and developing policies, resulting in YoY 3% net gain in receivables goals and finance operations.
• Collaborated and negotiated with sales leadership to create and establish cross-train concept for internal education to maximize profitability, build strong customer relationships, and create additional sales.
• Affected change by using models to reduce bad debt by 11% and increase annual collections by 15.9%

New York, NY, US

• Directed a 20-member global team to manage $1B+ in annual revenue, oversee Global Credit, Billing, and AR Financial Risk process, and administer global procedures and policies
• Analyzed and presented complex data to communicate results to C-Level management while collaborating with Revenue Recognition and ASC606 compliances
• Spearheaded change in global credit systems, integration, implementation, and automation while saving the department $1.5M by introducing Moody’s BVD for Credit & Collections
• Served as lead project manager for CFO Global Payment and Billing terms DSO lowering project to reduce DSO by 20 days

New York, NY, US

• Improved collections and disputes process by establishing and standardizing collection policies and procedures and ensuring internal controls were in place to minimize bad debt
• Achieved operational excellence by training and mentoring 30 new employees on collection methods, documentation requirements, and performance strategies
• Led year-end close efforts by boosting

New York, NY, US

• Established Credit Department from the ground up by managing credit risk finance process with $500M in AR, analyzing large data sets, and delegating assignments to 5 collections managers
• Set new records by preparing credit analytics, risk forecast models, and loss allowance estimations for 3K accounts to lower DSO in multiple districts
• Controlled credit exposure by assessing credit risk and financial conditions through financial statements, credit trends, and customer data

Managed CFE (Cash Flow Enhancement) staff of 7 regarding collections, A/R, and customers New account credit investigations and review, $300M in receivables. Review / analyze potential customer financial information.Review 3rd party credit investigation reports, Identify and recommend doubtful accounts legal, outside collectionsAssess forecasted Sales DSI.

Walldorf, BW, DE

Managed delegation of workloads to Regional staff according to supply and demand situationsRecovered over 500 million in past due payments and resolved account credit status issuesManaged portfolios in access of a Billion dollarsTargeted unresolved financial account issues and assessed and resolved them.Assessed commercial customer accounts via corporate.

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