Manuel Borges Pimentão Email & Phone Number

Lisboa, Portugal

Reporting to the Global Order to Cash Director, he takes on the leadership of a Global Collections Team present in 4 geographies (UK, Mexico, Greece and Malaysia) with the mission of recovering collection ratios and stabilizing cash flow in a global organization that in recent years has been recovering from a challenging financial situation (Chapter 11)..

Lisboa E Região

Collaboration with SMB companies in the reengineering of Order to Cash processes in order to support business expansion, process efficiency, cost reduction, cash flow and financial results improvements.

Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

• Joined the Company with the main goal to create the Global Billing Management role driving processes harmonisation, optimisation and automation, dependent on region/country specific requirements.
• Team located in 8 offices (Portugal, US, Italy, Brazil, México, Malaysia, Australia & India) covering worldwide operations in 34 Countries, under a common structure consolidated from the recent Infinera and Coriant.
• Average Quarterly Unbilled Rev reduction 15-20$M; Interaction with Sales/PMO in RFP’s answer
• 2020 to 2022: Auto Billing up 30% and invoice # down 21%; Auto Email; e-Invoice, Tax Engine & EDI
• Internal & External audit; SOX; interface with external finance partners in each country
• One of the main Financial focal owners handling strategic structural transformation processes seeking Business Financial results: restructuring from US centric company to US and Europe centric to simplify financials.

Lisboa

• Reporting to EMEA OTC Director, responsible for Local Order to Cash business operations and Billing for EMEA Multi Country contracts.
• Local responsibilities for Xerox and Creditex: Revenue Recognition, Order Entry, Billing, Accounts Receivables and Legal; 5 HR + 2 HR offshore and 6 outsourced resources; annual Revenue $60M
• EMEA Multi Country contracts billing, leading 6 HR; total annual Revenue $40M
• Committed with defined OTC quarterly targets: Billing ratios above 97%, Accruals control, AR and YOY DSO’s reductions, Customer satisfaction; 10% costs saving targets achieved
• Ownership of compliance procedures and audit processes success: SOX, Finance, APCER

• Responsible for Xerox and Creditex (equipment, services and leasing): revenue recognition validation following internal controls management process; interface with Sales, Logistic, Risk, IM and Accounting
• XE benchmark: Billing Timeliness & Completeness, Billing Quality, Query’s Resolution, Order Cycle Time, Sales Order Quality, Sales Satisfaction, Accruals…
• Processes standardization within OTC XE Team to maximize efficiencies, productivity and cost reduction; IT requirements and SI’s fiscal certification (SAFT)
• Team management: 6 elements in Portugal and 2 at OTC Shared Service

• Was hired to operationalize an ongoing restructuring process under the pression of urgent results
• Coordination of Collectors Team for all lines of business: Cash, Factoring, Accounts Receivables, DSO’s, Provisions and Write off’s
• Redefinition and processes optimization: Order Entry, Billing, Treasury, Collections and Legal
• Consistently quarterly targets achievements since December 2008
• Definition and implementation of IT requirements: Order Entry, Treasury, Billing and Collections

• Was one of the initial Customer Service Operations Team member with the main objective of preparing Jan00 operation launch at telecommunications market liberalization, while incorporating EDINET (telco’s company for.
• Searching of continuous improvements in collections indicators: Cash Flow, Bad Debt and DSO’s
• From March 2005 to Dec. 2006, improved 20% monthly cash flow when revenue decreased 10%
• Definition of collections policy and credit control processes according to Customer segmentation
• Working with outside consultants on the detail and implementation of the necessary it requirements (billing, collections, customer management and SAP)
• Responsible for the negotiation with all outside entities necessary for the normal execution of processes (Banks, SIBS, CTT, External Collections Agency, External Lawyer, etc…)

• Joined the project at early stage with 6 months operation as Customer Service Representative performing Call Center and Back Office tasks. With the development of the project got specialized in Collections for the.
• Implementation, maintenance and control of cash allocations methods (Lockbox, ATM, Direct Debit, POS) and collections device
• Interface with Management Information System, on new projects development as well as optimizing existent functionalities
• Selection, negotiation and control of external collections agencies at pre-legal stage
• Delegate of Credit, Collections and Fraud Department in Euro and Year 2000 projects

Lisboa

Operations and control of Cash allocation and Billing. Support external collections agency and lawyers