Creditors Controller

**Job Advert Summary**:
The purpose of this role is to ensure accurate financial record keeping, keep track of income and expenditure and ensure that accounts stay within budget.

Receive monthly invoice instructions & check reliability & accuracy of information to be invoiced.

Delegate responsibility for invoicing.

**Minimum Requirements**:

- Certificate or Diploma in Bookkeeping
- Studying towards a Finance degree would be highly advantageous.
- Computer literacy (MS Office, preparing and producing spreadsheets, bookkeeping software)
- 2-3 years’ experience in Accounting Bookkeeping.
- Thorough working knowledge of accounting practices.
- Xero experience required.
- Advanced MS Excel required.

COMPETENCIES & SKILLS
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Bookkeeping knowledge.
- Excellent organisational skills, with experience of planning own workload to meet deadlines.
- Experience of producing accurate and reliable work in a busy, pressurized environment.
- Appreciation of the need for tact and diplomacy as appropriate
- Display absolute honesty and maintain unquestionable ethical standards.
- Highly numerate and display expert abilities in general accounting bookkeeping practices.
- Good communication skills
- Applies sound financial formats.
- Bring about improvement and innovations to the processes to improve to improve the effective of the operation.
- Uses factual information and logic in order to draw conclusions and make recommendations.
- Deals effectively with pressure, remains focused, optimistic, and persistent even under adversity.
- Completes tasks according to specified and agreed deadlines.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
1.Accurate Invoicing of client amounts due
- Receive monthly invoice instructions & check reliability & accuracy of information to be invoiced.
- Delegate responsibility for invoicing.
- Calculation, Accrual & Processing of Commissions, royalties & management fees due
- From client invoicing accurate, complete commission, royalties & management fees are calculated by 3rd working day.
- Calculation of One Pot Accrual from above calculation by 3rd working day
- Balancing of Intercompany transactions on invoicing, royalties, management fees &commissions
- Ensure that all intercompany invoices & supplier bills for commission, royalty, management fees & rental charges correlate between companies by the 4th working day.
- Oversee Credit control function & process
- Delegate Credit control tasks & responsibilities for effective credit control & cash collections.

Assessment of progress & effectiveness of credit control
- Timely & Accurate recording & management of Invoice Master Sheets per entity
- Complete & correct export of invoicing records from accounting system into invoice master sheet
- Accurate reconciliation of master sheet to general ledger
- Correct manual inputs & checking of master sheet, for accurate deferment.
- Timely & Accurate Monthly VAT reconciliations
- VAT transactions are checked for reliability & accuracy.
- VAT reports are exported & reconciled.
- Effective Reviewing of General ledger accounts
- Continuously assess general ledger accounts in all entities for accuracy, completeness, reliability, validity, with specific focus on correctness of allocations & splits
- Checking of balance sheet accounts for correctness with focus on salary control & commission accruals
- Capturing of Payroll Journals
- Receiving, accurate & timely processing of payroll journals by 6th working day of the month
- Accurately processing of commission reallocation journals in GL in each entity per instruction.
- Preparation management accounts
- Check ledgers for Entity for which you prepare Management accounts for accuracy & completeness of allocations.
- Check control accounts in balance sheet.