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Accounts Receivable Team Manager

Requisition ID
2025-12882
# of Openings
1
Position Type
Regular Full-Time
Location
LV-Riga

Your Role at Cabot

As an Accounts Receivable Manager, you will lead the Collections & Cash Applications team for the EMEA & NA regions, ensuring effective receivables management and reducing overdues. You will drive collections strategies, optimize cash application processes, and maintain a balance between customer-centricity and finance goals. This role requires strong leadership, stakeholder communication, and a strategic approach to improving net overdue results while aligning with business needs. To develop and lead the group, in line with policies, procedures and standard business practices, to achieve excellence in the Cash Application and Collections function.

How You Will Make an Impact

  • Create and maintain a highly motivated business and process focused team committed to excellence in cash application and collections.
  • Develop extensive relationships with the business directors and sales managers, regional finance director, and other service center leaders to facilitate the execution of cash application and collection activities. Ensure a good integration of cash application and collection activities within Cabot overall organization through efficient communication both internally and externally.
  • Ensure all outstanding debts are monitored & collected promptly. Initiate and monitor resolution of problems highlighted at the time of collection or cash application. Progress overdue accounts to the point of legal action if necessary.
  • Coordinate and monitor all transactional activities relative to cash collection and cash application as defined in the order to cash process in a timely and efficient manner.
  • Provide timely, accurate and reliable internal reporting, such as aging reports and metrics on overdues and accounts receivable activities.
  • Establish key deliverables to populate the accounts receivable scorecard to achieve the Continuous Improvement Process targets.
  • Ensure that common and standard activities are followed, such as archiving, use of shared mailboxes, etc.
  • Ensure business continuity, by managing service coverage, including daily presence, vacation co-ordination, sickness/absence, public holiday staffing and back-up as necessary
  • Proactively find opportunities for improvements to existing methods and implement agreed solutions, which enhance quality, efficiency, reliability and continuity of service.
  • Ensure high performance of the team in terms of quality and efficiency, through Performance Based Management, including appropriate training, coaching, and motivation.

What You Will Bring to Cabot

  • Bachelor/University degree or equivalent qualification in finance or related field.
  • Process management knowledge. Good understanding of how different functions, activities and processes interact within a service center. Good understanding of finance & accounting processes.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the aptitude to impact and influence various levels of the organization.
  • Demonstrated capability to lead and influence decisions outside of direct areas of responsibility.
  • The ability to analyze and evaluate issues to make good decisions in complex environment.
  • Above average Internal Control understanding is considered an advantage.
  • Customer and business-oriented mindset.
  • Previous experience in leading teams.

Additional Information: 

  • Working Hours: 9:00 - 17:30.
  • Permanent contract.
  • Salary: 2800 -3000 EUR Gross.
  • Monthly allowance & Yearly bonus.
  • Health insurance from first day of work.
  • Hybrid work schedule (3 days on site and 2 days’ work from home).

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About Cabot


Cabot Corporation (NYSE: CBT) is a leading global specialty chemicals and performance materials company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Our businesses deliver a broad range of products and solutions to customers in every corner of the globe, serving the transportation, infrastructure, environment and consumer industry sectors. We bring the power of innovative chemistry to solve customers' challenges today while preparing them to meet tomorrow’s needs. Our commitment to innovation is driven by a passion to advance our customers' businesses through our deep understanding of their applications and the global trends that impact their operations.

Innovation that drives sustainability

Many of the world’s greatest sustainability challenges are fundamentally chemistry problems. We can convert the mobility sector from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles, but this requires batteries with greater range and lower cost. This is fundamentally a chemistry challenge. We can have a zero-energy building, but this requires high performance insulation, efficient solar panels, and energy storage solutions. Each of these are fundamentally chemistry challenges.

At Cabot, we bring the power of innovative chemistry and a spirit of partnership with our customers to advance solutions that will enable a sustainable future. Our strength in research and development is a major reason why we have been an industry leader for more than 135 years in products such as reinforcing and specialty carbons, battery materials, aerogel, fumed metal oxides, inkjet colorants, masterbatches and conductive compounds.

Our employees around the world are united by our shared purpose: Creating materials that improve daily life and enable a more sustainable future. Through our corporate strategy, “Creating for Tomorrow,” we are focused on our core strengths to lead in performance and sustainability – today and into the future.


EEO/AA Employer/Vet/Disabled/RC14001


Realizing we function better together than individually, Cabot Corporation is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that embraces our differences and to empower employees to achieve exceptional results, without consideration of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other legally protected categories. This includes providing reasonable accommodation for employees’ and applicants’ disabilities or religious beliefs and practices, in accordance with applicable law.

Cabot is committed to supporting and maintaining a safe and environmentally focused working environment. All employees are expected to uphold this commitment in every position.

Nondiscrimination Policy with Respect to Discussion of Pay


This is to advise that it is the policy of Cabot Corporation not to discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because such employee or applicant has inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the compensation of the employee or applicant or another employee or applicant. This policy, however, shall not apply to instances in which an employee who has access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as part of that employee's essential job functions (such as in payroll or HR) discloses the compensation of such other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to such information, unless that disclosure is in response to a formal complaint or charge, in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing or other action, including an investigation conducted by Cabot, or otherwise as required by law.

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