1. Barry Rankin CBA
Phone: 469- 441-1596
Experience:
September 2010 – September 2016
Director of Credit, Collections and Interline
Payables
Central Freight Lines
Dallas, TX
• Reduced over 90 by $900,000 in first 12 months
• Implemented new training methods and set goals for collections and cash applications
• Wrote new policies for credit, write offs and disputes
• Review and process all incoming and outgoing credit applications
• Manage cash applications team utilizing a lockbox
• Handle all interline and partner relationships and payables
• Maintain the credit integrity of the company
• Reduced staff by 30% over the first two years
• Renegotiated all vendor contracts reducing costs and adjusting terms
• Oversee bill count of over 185,000 invoices
• Staff consisted of 1 Manager, 1 supervisor, and 19 support personnel
• Bridged all breakdowns in communication with the sales force
• Set scorecards and monitored all outsourcing for outside collections
• Wrote and implemented a new credit policy
• Increased outgoing call volumes
• Reduced over 60 by 2.5m over the first year
• Developed improvement plans for management staff
• Increased electronic receipt of funds from 28% to 63%
• Implemented electronic invoicing reducing billing costs by 17%
September 1998 – September 2010
Credit and Collections Manager
Frozen Food Express Industries Inc.
Dallas, TX
• Implemented and utilized GetPaid collections software
• Managed up to 55 million in receivables, maintaining a 75% current rate through the entire revenue process, from
issuing the credit limit, to posting the cash, to balancing against the GL
• Maintained a customer database of 2,500 accounts and over 50,000 invoices
• Handled a 7 million dollar portfolio personally while managing other collectors and clerks
• Managed up to 25 employees
2. Barry Rankin CBA
Phone: 469- 441-1596
• Bridged communication gaps between the customer, sales and collections
• Implemented inter-departmental meetings to merge resources
• Lowered DSO and over 90 for 4 years in a row
• Kept bad debt write offs to under .03% annually
• Filed law suits through small claims court
• Contracted attorneys for major law suits against corporations
• Liaison to pricing for new distribution costs fees
• Successfully implemented Credit Limits in an industry that does not practice them
• Consolidated three different credit and collections departments and systems into one
• Over every non-profitable year, we maintained a positive cash flow preventing the company from borrowing
• Attended numerous training seminars and conducted training sessions for nationally recognized associations, such as
The National Credit Association, and The Transportation Revenue Management group
• Specializes in training, team building, and credit management.
• Received executive recognition for cost cutting and cash flow progressions.
• Implemented a lockbox setup for automatic cash applications
• Performed the leg work for 2 different bank conversions.
• Implemented DNBi
July 1995 – September 1998
I/O Manager
Renter’s Choice Inc.
Garland, TX
• Manage the sales team and performed both inside and outside sales duties
• Developed sales strategies to increase our client base as well as set many team sales records
• In charge of all inventories for what is in stock and out on rental agreements
• Handled all procurement duties
• Developed new collections procedures as well as marketing campaigns to drive sales up and collections down
• In a company that had 435 stores across the nation our store was number 1 in profitability and sales
• Performed credit checks and placed collections calls
• Made in person collection calls and skip traced
Professional Membership and Education:
CBA designation from the National Association of Credit Management – June 2008
Public Relations and Marketing campaigns implemented through The Transportation Revenue Management Group.
3. Barry Rankin CBA
Phone: 469- 441-1596
Technical Knowledge:
Lawson, AS/400, Get Paid, ICC, ACM, ACH, EDI 820, Excel, Word, Outlook, DNBi, Cortera, Tele-Check Systems, Credit
Card processing, E-Credit, Seafax, BAI2 Lockbox transmissions
Personal and Business References Available upon Request