Credit Controller

**Credit Controller**:
**POSITION SNAPSHOT**:

- JobReq ID: 52999- Type of work: On site- Type of contract: Open-ended/permanent- Full/Part Time: Full time- Location: Johannesburg, ZA:
**Role Summary**:
We are looking for a Credit Controller reporting directly to the Head of Finance Retail based at Bridgestone’s Head Office in Midrand. You will be responsible for collecting debts from our company debtors, evaluating new credit requests, ensuring timely payments of company debts, processing invoices, maintaining sales ledgers, and providing administrative support.

**Responsibilities**:

- Analyse and evaluate the credit worthy of our customers, analysis of financial statements, contacts with our credit insurer
- Establish and monitor credit limits
- Continuously working on the DSO
- Follow-up the whole credit limit process; releasing the orders, blocking the customers, updating credit limits.
- Deciding on block shipments in consultation with the Credit / Finance manager.
- Minimize bad debt exposure
- Close cooperation with our internal stakeholder
- Report generating, writing, and compiling

**Reconciliation of Vendor Statements**:

- Statements
- Reconciliation Sheets
- Remittances
- Unpaid Report
- Requesting of outstanding invoices

**Required Capabilities**:

- Close cooperation with all relevant internal stakeholders,
- Transparent and prompt communication regarding credit analysis with internal and external stakeholders, clients, customers, and vendors,
- Strong interpersonal skills,
- Unquestionable professionalism showcased to all internal and external parties,
- Meticulous in the manner of approach and line of questioning,
- Quantitative analysis skills,
- Ability to establish and maintain professional working client relationships, both internally and externally at all levels.
- Ability to work independently but being a team player
- Accurate, hands-on, and flexible
- A positive attitude and a growth mindset

**Role requirements**:

- Bachelor’s in finance/ Credit Management and accounting or equivalent through experience
- Knowledge of SAP will be advantageous
- Relevant working experience of national and government accounts
- Strong legislative knowledge

**Bridgestone Behaviours**
- Agility - to work in a matrix, complex and fast paced environment.
- Courage - to share ideas, challenge the status quo.
- Ownership - to see the bigger picture and take ownership by thinking and acting beyond the role (self-starter).

**Why should you apply?**:

- We are passionate about our people and want to offer them the opportunity to develop and grow.
- You never stop learning. You will have the possibility to develop yourself via our Learning Management System that is also connected to LinkedIn Learning.
- Bridgestone as a global company drives your career to the next level by offering you possibilities to work in an international setting.
- You will have the opportunity to work with leading technologies.
- You will have the opportunity to experience a dynamic and challenging environment and work on different and innovative projects.
- We help you to drive your career path onward and upward work in a culture of feedback that recognizes you and helps your development.
- You will work in a healthy and safety environment, as safety is a key priority area in Bridgestone.
- You will have the opportunity to participate in our Corporate Social Responsibility activities.

**MORE INFORMATION**:
**We are looking forward to hearing from you**

**DISCLAIMER**:
Diversity and inclusion are a central part of Bridgestone EMEA’s values at the highest level. This is key for our people to show a passion for excellence for improving society connected to the world in which we live. Our commitment to diversity, is linked to our founders mission of ‘Serving Society with Superior Quality’, which is essential in shaping and creating the organization, serving all people, respectfully, connected to our business. We recognize that everyone is different and that attracting, developing and retaining our employees will create a sustainable working environment which is essential to our success. This means that all job applicants and members of staff will receive equal treatment and that we will not discriminate in particular on grounds of gender, marital status, race, ethnic origin, color, nationality, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, religion or age.