Commercial Contract Specialist
Gerdau North America · Cartersville, GA · 2 wk ago
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About the Role
The Business Support Analyst is responsible for all aspects of account coordination to support scrap purchase and sales contracts, and other scrap-related business processes for Metals Recycling. This role serves as the main point of contact for vendors and customers, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver an optimal customer experience and ensure accurate, reliable, and timely results.
Responsibilities
- Main point of contact for vendors and customers, addressing inquiries and resolving issues promptly.
- Coordinate and orchestrate cross-functional teams (Commercial, Operations, Logistics, Accounting) to enhance customer experience.
- Build and maintain positive relationships, ensuring effective communication and information flow.
- Collaborate with internal teams to guide and oversee end-to-end processes, identifying and closing gaps while ensuring policy compliance.
- Proactively assess and advise on potential risks or non-compliance issues related to processes or transactions.
- Uphold and promote mitigating controls to streamline process flow, secure documentation, and satisfy audit requirements.
- Validate pricing, process payables, reconcile statements, and audit scrap tickets against vendor payment schedules and SAP reports.
- Facilitate periodic (weekly, monthly, quarterly) customer reviews and reconciliations, troubleshoot issues, and share best practices.
- Create, maintain, and analyze purchase contracts, coordinate account adjustments for pricing and dispute resolution, and manage cost recovery programs.
- Manage sales orders from setup to receivable reconciliation and dispute resolution to minimize business disruptions.
- Coordinate new account setup and maintenance for vendors and customers, including access to self-service portals.
- Manually manage daily activity, cost processing, and summary validation for multiple offsite inventory locations.
- Disseminate large volumes of confidential and time-sensitive information.
- Maintain tax documentation requirements and validate compliance for processed billings, audit reviews, and government reporting.
- Coordinate export sales tracking and reporting.
- Meet with decision-makers and end-users to define operational requirements, systems goals, and improvements, and resolve systems issues.
- Provide subject matter expertise and assist with the implementation of system changes and upgrades.
- Coordinate special projects to strengthen processes, mitigate risks, minimize errors, and drive data integrity and compliance.
- Review and update process documentation and manuals for department activities.
Requirements
- Business Administration University Degree or College Diploma preferred.
- 1 to 2 years of related field experience preferred.
- Excellent knowledge of accounting and finance principles.
- Advanced Excel and SAP skills are an asset.
- Exceptional communication skills to interface with customers and personnel.
- Strong customer service focus with excellent liaising and networking skills.
- Exceptional time management, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Self-driven, collaborative, and able to prioritize conflicting demands.