Description
The ideal candidate should already have some basic understanding and experience with risk mitigation strategies such as bank cessions, familiarity with process of property title registration, etc.
New Account Reviews
- Review and make recommendation of new applications for 30 day accounts
- Coordinate with applicants completion of all documents credit application forms, surety, etc
- Meet with applications if needed to determine credit worthiness, or get answers to complete credit applications
Day to day credit control
- Manage customer relationship find the right balance to grow company sales without exposing the companies to unnecessary risk levels
- Handle day to day requests for credit overrides make judgement calls when accounts exceed credit limits or when accounts are slightly overdue
- Handle adhoc admin request from customers - account reconciliations, assist with invoice queries, etc
- Hands on / personal touch with some of the companies largest customers
Plan and actions to recover overdue/bad debt
- Coordinate with 3rd party lawyers and debt collection specialists to recover overdue
Supervise and assist junior debtor clerks
- This role will personally handle the day to day / hands-on accounts of the companies largest 5 to 10 Key customers
- The rest / smaller accounts the day to day management will be handled by junior credit controllers , but this position will support/supervise and assist the rest of team as needed
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in finance or business related field of study.
- Three (3) year experience in Credit Management/Credit Control.
- Regular review of ageing reports to pro-actively identify issues
- Get involved to contact customers when payments become very overdue, or when issues are escalated
- Assist with account recons to resolve queries
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Good business acumen for problem solving.
- Competency with large ERP systems.
- Confidence to deal with a range of stakeholders.
- Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritise a demanding workload
Closing date: 11 July 2023