Credit & Accounts Receivable Officer - Eastern Europe (Polish fluent) - Fixed-term Contract

🔝 Reports to: Credit Supervisor

📑 Fixed-term contract (maternity cover) – April to December 2026

💰 Salary : 32K

📍 Schiltigheim (Strasbourg), France

👩‍💻🏡 Hybrid work: up to 2 days home-office per week

📆 Start date: April 2026

OUTGROWN YOUR OWN BACKYARD? COME PLAY IN OURS.

At Columbia Sportswear, we’re as passionate about the outdoors as you are. And while our gear is available worldwide, we’re proud to be based in the Pacific Northwest, where natural wonders are our playground.

Every product we make and every task we undertake is inspired by the famous words of our founder Gert Boyle: “It’s perfect. Now make it better.” As pioneers of relentless improvement, we are constantly evolving

Discover a world of diversity within our team of 700+ across 13 European countries, united by the common goal of elevating Columbia to the pinnacle of outdoor brands in Europe. Our omnichannel approach seamlessly integrates Columbia and Sorel brands' engaging in-store and online experiences.

Nestled at the heart of the Alps in Geneva, Switzerland, our European headquarters hosts the Executive Committee, go-to-market functions, and Planning and Logistics teams. In Schiltigheim, near Strasbourg, our shared services center thrives with over 100 professionals managing Finance and Operations/Customer Service. Our distribution center in Cambrai ensures swift delivery to customers, while our 35+ Columbia stores adorn major European outlet centers. Finally, the Sales and Trade Marketing teams are displayed in 3 regions across Europe, close to their customers and markets.

We believe the outdoors is ours to protect and strive to keep our planet healthy. We believe in empowering people to experience the outdoors to the fullest.

And we believe in you.

ABOUT THE POSITION

Join our Credit team in Schiltigheim, within our European Shared Services Center, and help ensure the financial health of our business across Eastern Europe.

As Credit & Accounts Receivable Officer, you will manage a portfolio of B2B customers primarily based in Poland and several Eastern European markets (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia). Your mission is to ensure that invoices are paid on time, monitor credit risk and support strong financial partnerships with our customers and internal sales teams.

Working closely with Sales, Customer Service and Finance stakeholders, you will play a key role in maintaining healthy cash flow while enabling business growth in these markets.

This position is initially offered as a fixed-term maternity cover, with the possibility to evolve depending on future organizational needs.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE THE DIFFERENCE

• Manage the credit and collections cycle for a portfolio of B2B customers across Poland and Eastern Europe, ensuring invoices are paid on time and cash flow is secured.
• Monitor customer balances and follow up on overdue payments, coordinating with clients to resolve issues and secure payment commitments.
• Assess and manage credit risk by reviewing credit limits, working with credit insurers and proposing alternative guarantees when necessary.
• Act as a business partner to the Sales teams, helping balance commercial opportunities with financial risk.
• Release customer orders based on credit exposure and payment status, ensuring that shipments can proceed while maintaining sound credit control.
• Analyze customer payment behavior and contribute to cash flow forecasting, helping the finance team anticipate incoming payments.
• Prepare and maintain key reporting files (aged balance reviews, risk monitoring, collection tracking) used internally to monitor portfolio performance.
• Support monthly closing activities, including commission calculations for agents and follow-up on deductions or disputes.
• Maintain strong communication with customers, sales teams and internal stakeholders to resolve payment issues efficiently.

YOU ARE

• Detail-oriented and rigorous — you enjoy working with numbers and ensuring financial data is accurate and reliable.
• Comfortable communicating with different stakeholders — whether with sales teams internally or customers externally.
• Analytical and solution-oriented — you are able to interpret financial data and translate it into concrete actions.
• Organized and adaptable — you can manage multiple topics simultaneously in a dynamic environment.
• Curious and proactive — you are not afraid to ask questions, investigate discrepancies and improve processes.

YOU HAVE

• Fluent Polish and English (both written and spoken), allowing you to interact confidently with customers and internal teams across Eastern Europe.
• Experience in a B2B international environment, ideally in Credit, Finance, Accounts Receivable, Customer Service or Sales Operations.
• Strong Excel skills (including functions such as VLOOKUP and pivot tables), enabling you to analyze and manipulate financial data efficiently.
• A good understanding of financial processes and customer accounting, including collections, customer balances or credit management.
• Experience with ERP systems such as SAP is a plus and will help you ramp up quickly in the role

PERKS & BENEFITS

🎁 Significant discounts on Columbia and Sorel products

👩‍⚕️ Health insurance allowance for employees in Switzerland

👨‍⚕️ Mutuelle de santé for our employees in France, covered at 100% by the company

🍝 Lunch vouchers

📚 Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning

📖 A monthly Learning Hour for training, discovery and learning

👩‍🏫 Unlock your potential: access to in-house training courses (feedback, leadership, Insights®...)

🌈DEI initiatives to exchange and strengthen our involvement around these themes

ABOUT THE CULTURE

• At Columbia Sportswear, we value an inclusive and open culture that emphasizes the absence of barriers between team members. We are committed to fostering a sense of belonging by encouraging personal connections at all levels, which creates a cohesive and supportive work environment.
• Team members serve as ambassadors for our brand, finding motivation in being part of an organization dedicated to activities they are passionate about. This dedication reflects our commitment to building a team that takes pride in our products and values.
• We offer the opportunity to work for a US-based company within a multicultural environment, where your job has an impact across different countries.
• Our "Always Be Learning" culture of continuous learning enables our employees to identify and develop skills that will enable them to continue to grow within the company.
• "Unlock Your Potential" is the spirit that characterizes our vision of employees' development: to offer them opportunities to grow, in their job, in their team or even to change jobs completely. We grow our people to grow our business.

To learn more about us and our culture, visit our page on Welcome To The Jungle: https://bit.ly/49bl1i5

ABOUT THE HIRING PROCESS

1️⃣ Ready to unlock your potential at Columbia Sportswear Company? Apply now to help us connect active people with their passion! The hiring team will review your application in the following weeks.

2️⃣ If your application is selected: a 30-45mn introductory interview with our Talent Acquisition Team to talk about yourself, your motivations and the role

3️⃣ Interview with the Hiring Manager including a short Excel case study

4️⃣ Final discussion with key stakeholders

5️⃣ Your unique strengths align perfectly with our team: we are thrilled to extend you an offer!

This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.