Credit Controller

Job description

• Take ownership of debtor account allocated to you;
• Continuously review customer account credit limits against pre-set credit control parameters;
• Identify breaches in parameters and highlight to senior where you are not able to resolve independently;
• Keep track of all outstanding sales invoices of each of your debtor accounts and actively follow up on accounts that could potentially start to age;  
• Identify customer receipts from the daily bank statements and accurately process the amount to the correct debtors account;
• Good communication with the cash management team where applicable;
• Ensure that all your invoices are created and where necessary send to your customers;
• Regular reconciliations of your debtor accounts to ensure all sales invoices; payments, and credit notes have been processed.
• Proactively resolve client queries
• Facilitate swift recovery of outstanding amounts due to the organisation.
• Service internal stakeholders; with a strong focus on problem solving with a positive outlook on growing the business whilst maintaining the core responsibility of credit control;
• Routine reporting to financial senior on recoveries; outstanding customer balances; sales reporting; analytics etc.
• Adhere to all company and departmental policies and procedures;
• Ad hoc tasks and projects.

Requirements

• Must have grade 12 certificate
• National Diploma in Finance
• Must have at least two years credit control experience within a finance environment.
• Must be Computer literate
• The ability to cope with the constant pressure of strict deadlines 
• Excellent analytical skills
• Planning and organisational skills 
• People orientated and proactive
• Team player