Patrick Barry Email & Phone Number

Melbourne Area, Australia

Responsibilities and Duties:Assisted with the internal hand-over of current operations for the relocation and national SAP integration under Coca Cola Amatil Sydney.Management of invoices and statements in SAP Business One.Lead credit team (5 direct reports) – including system training, reporting and motivational strategies.Credit Risk Analysis - Assessing credit applications to minimize risk.Management of mercantile agents, credit reporting agencies and external legal services.Liaise with all business units in order to draft and implement internal processes for new customer set ups, adjustment notes, track payment plans, identify and prioritizing areas in need of improvement. Maintain client records, database and statistics.

Melbourne, Australia

Responsibilities and Duties:Gained a substantial understanding of SAP system in a short period of time.Exceeded monthly collection target by 15 %.Timely accurate management reporting.Corporate governance and due diligence of statutory and OH&S regulations.Business unit banking and daily cash recording and payment allocation.Credit Risk Analysis - Assessing credit applications to minimize risk.Assisting Financial Controller regarding various credits and billing issues.

Sydney, Australia

Responsibilities and Duties:Management of the credit team – including system training, reporting and motivational strategies.Effective control of debt ledger (over 99% of debt collected within agreed payment terms).Optimize AP payment processing to ensure effective cash flow management.Process staff expenses to ensure general ledger coding and policy was adhered to (including sensitive expenditure).Design and implement a purchase ordering process for recharges after identification of lost reimbursement of production costs due to ineffective processes.Provide support and advice to relationship and business development managers and finance department.Timely and accurate management reporting.Liaise with all internal business units, in particular, the Sales department, Commercial Traffic Department, and IT to ensure compliance with credit policy and minimize and monitor risk exposure.Implement operational plans and measurements to achieve corporate objectives.Analysis of performance information and statistics on a daily, weekly and monthly basis to identify trends and address issues.Prepare, upload, allocate, and reconcile daily customer cash receipts.Perform Credit Risk Analysis by assessing credit applications with a view to minimizing the Bad Debt Provision.Monitor Credits/Refunds - Investigation, reconciliation, analysis and application.Assisting Sales and Credit Controllers regarding various credits and billing issues. Management of mercantile agents, credit reporting agencies and internal/external legal services.Document Processes - creating training manuals for all department procedures.Documenting and implementing new Credit Policy for Ignite Media Brands.

Sydney Area, Australia

Responsibilities and Duties:High-level client service and relationship management.Management of the AR team (10 direct reports).Acting Credit Manager for three months during which time I introduced KPI’s, targets, performance incentives for my team.Promoted and supported opportunities for team member continuing professional development.Designed and implement a Dunning system – Oracle JDE.Implement operational plans and measurements to achieve corporate objectives.Analysis of performance information and statistics daily, weekly and monthly, identify trends and address issues.Timely accurate management reporting.Corporate governance and due diligence of statutory and OH&S regulations.

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia