Credit Controller

**Job Advert Summary**:

- The Regional Credit Control position is accountable for the debt collection activities in such a manner that it maximises collections and minimises bad debts.
- The day-to-day duties of the Credit Controller are varied and include managing the debts of creditors, ensuring timely payments are made
- Processing incoming funds, reconciling invoices, resolving account queries and managing debt recovery.

**Minimum Requirements**:

- Degree or Diploma within the accounting field
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in a financial environment
- Capacity to deliver under pressure
- Good people skills
- Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines and targets
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

**ATTRIBUTES**:

- Attention to detail and ability to work accurately and deliver quality outputs.
- Good problem-solving
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, influencing and relationship-building skills.
- Willingness to work overtime when needed.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- **Policies and Procedures**
- Ensure adherence to collection policies and procedures.
- **Collections and Targets**
- Monitor and manage a debtor’s portfolio of no more than 480 accounts.
- Achieve and maintain collections and targets set per company protocol.
- Actively collect payment according to payment terms
- Performs reconciliations of allocated accounts daily.
- **Overdue Accounts**
- Attend weekly meetings with the credit supervisor to review all defaulting accounts.
- Ensure the correct escalation process is followed for the Reminder Letters.
- Feedback on the top 20 overdue accounts must be prepared and discussed weekly.
- **Hand Overs and Bad Debts**
- Follow the correct protocol before blacklisting a client, and then proceed to blacklist clients.
- Inform the credit supervisor of any liquidations, absconded clients and business rescue’s immediately.
- **Credit Notes, Invoices and Adjustments**
- Check that all credit notes and adjustments are raised correctly.
- Investigate all reasons for credit notes to ensure that they are valid.
- Submit all credit notes requisitions to the regional credit supervisor.
- Raise all rate queries and stop billing on closures with the billing department.
- **Month-end Activities**
- Ensure that all re-allocations of unallocated deposits are completed.
- Ensure that all journals’ requisitions are raised by 12h00 on the 4th working day of the new month.
- **Cash / Suspense Accounts**
- Ensure the bank statements deposits are captured and allocated daily.
- Ensure that all suspense accounts are reconciled and cleared monthly.
- Obtain all remittance advices for all deposits received on allotted debtor’s accounts.
- **Financial & Reporting**
- Prepare commentary on top twenty clients each month for the region
- **Auditors**
- Assist auditors as and when required.
- **Meetings**
- Regular one on one book reviews with the credit supervisor
- Attend monthly and weekly meetings where required.
- Regularly attend customer meetings.
- **Customer Care & Queries**
- Promote a high level of focus on customer care with relevance to all customer complaints and queries.
- Maintains accurate and complete client information on the system
- Ensure that such queries and complaints are dealt with efficiently, accurately, and promptly.
- Ensure a 48-hour turn-around-time on all customer queries.
- **Inter-departmental Relations**
- Ensure that inter-departmental relationships between Accounts Receivable and other areas are maintained at high levels.
- Ensure a balance is maintained between sales and credit objectives.
- **Projects**
- To get involved in any additional projects as and when required.

**What we offer**:

- Market related salary and performance incentives
- All permanent team members required to join the company's provident fund and risk benefit
- Monthly health screening and access to counselling support services
- Attractive leave benefits
- Recognition of long service
- Internal promotions encouraged
- Leadership and employee development training programmes managed by our Training Department
- Continuous self development encouraged
- Clear mission and strategic direction
- Our values are ingrained in our business
- Collaboration and agility
- Customer centricity
- High performance culture
- Recognition and rewarding of high performers