Maria Scholte Lubberink

Leading complex global projects to modernize Accounts Receivable, driving efficiency and accountability to deliver working capital improvements:

• Collections of the Future
• Advanced Dispute Resolution
• MyFinancials Modernization
• OneAR
• Simplified Capacity Model
  

Coordinating and Collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement digital transformation and modernization initiatives in CFS

Utilizing project management skills to streamline processes and enhance operational effectiveness.

CBA

Global Project Manager responsible for Collections Transformation.
Leading global projects focused on digital transformation and modernization

• Leading the renewal contracts administration team responsible for renewals order management.
• Recruitment, onboarding, team development; Assignment of tasks and responsibilities within the team.
• Ensuring all bookings are compliant with SOX and Revenue Recognition criteria.
• Quarter end execution
• Monitor the KPI to to ensure customers expectations are consistently achieved.
• Liaise with the local country teams to maintain awareness of commercial aspects of the regions business and build positive relationships.
• Active membership of the bookings leadership team, represent the EMEA team on integration projects and lead standalone projects.
• Represent the contracts administration team in various meetings.
• Liaise with our offshore team as well as the global contracts administration teams to ensure global consistency and to drive continuous improvements.

• Responsible for reviewing & managing all sales orders within EMEA for completeness and accuracy.
• Providing desk side support to internal team members
• Organizing and conducting internal training
• Escalation point internally & externally
• Collaborating on complex customers issues
• Reports to management weekly on backlog & pending deals
• Develop action plan for non-complete orders
• Internal escalation POC
• Primary contact for Field Sales, Operations, Finance and Manufacturing escalations.

Key Achievements:

Drove various improvement initiatives to deliver performance outcomes for the business:

• Development and Implementation of New Hire Training plan to ensure onboarding of new hires is managed consistently and key skills/areas for development are identified early.
• New Hire training coordinator
• SME for Cross-Sell project early integration processes
• Regional Focus project to improve relationship between BOS and GRO

• Review orders for completeness and accuracy.
• Process orders.
• Actioning queries as a primary contact for Field Sales, Finance, Manufacturing.
• Monitor and report on backlog and pending deals, and working with Management/Field Sales to close the pending deals.
• Developing action plans for "orders not booked" and working with the sales team to resolve issues.
• Review the company's financial transactions, sales contracts and business practices, to ensure they are in compliance with SOX guidelines for revenue recognition.
• Review customer contracts, purchase orders, ELA’s and PSOW’s for potential revenue recognition issues.
• Work with Legal and Sales Operations to ensure proper compliance with revenue recognition rules and guidelines.
• Work with Sales Allocations and Manufacturing to schedule and ship orders in line with customer requirements and EMC lead times.
• Assist in customer negotiations.
• Successful completion and closing of Quarter End.
• Work closely with sales and services management, legal and sales operations to ensure proper compliance with revenue recognition rules and guidelines.

• First point of contact within accounts payable for the European Headquarters of the company.
• 3-Way matching of PO related invoices.
• Resolve match exceptions with Purchasing and Supply Chain.
• Process non-PO related invoices & check signatures to matrix to ensure accurate coding and approval for payment.
• Coding of invoices in line with Annual Operating Plan.
• Allocation of Direct Debit, manual and urgent payments.
• Process and analyse financial data related to Accounts Payable, ensuring that all AP and VAT controls are performed in compliance with SOX.
• Review & validate all vendor master file amendment and addition forms for the Dutch Business Unit.
• Review, validate and process manual payments requests from the Dutch Business Unit.
• Work internally with the banking team and externally with creditors to resolve payment issues.
• Perform Creditor reconciliations as requested.
• Preparing the weekly discrepancy log and sending this to Management/Purchasing in the Netherlands, and working with them to resolve the issues and clear the Discrepancy log.
• Prepare the file for General Accounts and assist them in successfully closing each month end.
• Involved in the training of new team members.
• Resolve queries and issues from team members and the Business Unit.
• Filing and archiving.
• I started this role dealing with the Dutch Business Unit, progressing to a team of 2, coding and distribution to the relevant team members of all invoices for EMEA.