Credit Control Executive
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Company Overview
To apply for this job please visit onlinerecruitment.exelsyslive.com.
Job Description & Responsibilities
Reporting to the Production Financial Controller, this position is responsible for building and maintaining strong relationships with clients to ensure the smooth running of our receivables.
Responsibilities include:
• Taking a proactive role in managing and collecting debts of company debtors to ensure a reduction in debtors' DSO
• Evaluating new credit requests and reviewing customers' credit rankings with credit institutions in line with approved Company policies
• Ensuring timely payments from customers
• Negotiating re-payment plans
• Responding to relevant client enquiries
• Checking and posting receipts to the accounting systems
• Preparing client status reports and all relevant information as required for eventual presentation to management
• Periodically reviewing current company credit policies and procedures and come up with proposals and suggested improvements
• Ensuring credit and collection policies and procedures are followed throughout the organisation
• Liaising with customers, as well as internal personnel including the sales team
• Initiating and following up legal actions against customers with overdue balances
• Periodical providing updates to the Management Team about progress registered / issues that could crop up from time to time
Competencies:
• Good negotiation skills
• Outstanding attention to detail with the ability to contribute to formulation / review contracts of supply with our debtors
• Be capable to understand current set-offs and propose new ones as a means of protecting sales whilst collecting debts within a reasonable time frame
• Be accurate, efficient and organised with the ability to prioritise tasks
• Be proficient in Mathematics ideally with a good accounting background
• Be able to maintain strong relationships with external clients and internal colleagues
• Be professional, confident and diplomatic when liaising with clients and internal colleagues
• Have a hands-on with can-do attitude
• Have good analytical skills with attention to detail
• Demonstrate problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Have excellent Microsoft Excel knowledge
• Have good business acumen
Qualifications required
Applicants must ideally have a diploma in Credit Management or alternatively a degree in Accounting.
Experience required
Previous experience in a credit control environment is a must. In addition, experience in legal proceedings will be considered an asset.
Work Place
On-site
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