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×Fran Swartz
Prizes super visor and senior credit controller at Primedia Broadcasting
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Supercall Cellular
AdminClerk
May 2001 - June 2002
Consumer Credit Controller
June 2002 - June 2003
Senior Credit Controller
June 2003 - September 2005
Environment
To maintain a specific debtors listing to acceptable days outstanding, whilst minimizing churn (deactivations), bad debt and the risk of fraud.
To ensure lines are suspended timorously in order to avoid risk of bad debt.
Monitoring and maintaining my soft bar and suspended report sent weekly and reporting back to the credit control supervisor.
Allocation of monthly payments
Journals,Credit notes & debit notes.
Reports on high user accounts.
Small, Medium Enterprises and Corporate clients. 2-10 lines.
Book value of 3000 000 to 4000 000
• Customer base of at least 6000 clients.
• Hand over of bad debt accounts and black listing of handsets.
Cell C (Sandton Esher Place)
Retailer Credit Controller
Environment
• Ensure credit limits are maintained in accordance with the credit control policy on a monthly basis.
• Maintain debtors days at 45 days.
• Maintain the 90/120 days at 1%
• Ensure monthly recons balance customers remittances/Recons.
• Ensure all monthly reporting requirements are met on or before due date.
• Allocate unallocated payment and offset against credits or debits on system as per customer recons/ remittances.
• Double check delivery of stock from Warehouse/ courier direct to customer and returned stock from customer to Warehouse/ courier direct.
Primedia Broadcasting
Credit controller
Prime Talent FinanceController
Finance - Prizes Supervisor
Environment
To maintain a specific debtors listing to acceptable days outstanding, whilst minimizing bad debt and the risk of fraud.
To collect telephonically all outstanding monies, whilst maintaining an excellent customer service record.
To ensure that advertisements (airtime) are placed on hold or cancelled timorously in order to avoid risk of bad debt, this allows me to work close with Sales coordinators and Account executives.
Monitoring cash up front customers with no credit and payments to be allocated before airtime flights.
To prepare documentation for handover accounts to be handed over to Credit guarantee and the
Book value of 22 million.
Active clients of approximately inclusive of Cash Upfront customers - 1000
Reconciliations on overdue and queried account.
Extra Duties within Marketing/ Prime Talent Department
Debt collecting of presenters outstanding invoices.
Processing of invoices and credit notes
Payment allocations to correct customer account
Credit PAYE costs on invoices.
Prime talent book is strictly cash upfront unless arranged differently with finance manager.
Process all payment allocations from bank statements to correct accounts and advise payroll of percentage pay out to Prime Stars.
Environment (Prizes Supervisor)
Liaise with Sales, Programming, Service Providers, Listeners and Financial Department on a daily basis
Managing the Prize Co Ordinators
• Dealing with queries from winners, clients and staff
• Preparing financial reconciliations on a regular basis
• Managing valuable prizes
• Creating Month end Prize reports
• Ordering packaging
• Ensuring physical prize corresponds with prize description
• Responding to enquiries and complaints
• Compiling competition recons for sales & clients
• Ensure communication lines between marketing are kept open concerning events
• Ensuring that all competitions are up to date at month end
• Receiving of physical prizes
Work Experience
Supercall Cellular
AdminClerk
May 2001 - June 2002
Consumer Credit Controller
June 2002 - June 2003
Senior Credit Controller
June 2003 - September 2005
Environment
To maintain a specific debtors listing to acceptable days outstanding, whilst minimizing churn (deactivations), bad debt and the risk of fraud.
To ensure lines are suspended timorously in order to avoid risk of bad debt.
Monitoring and maintaining my soft bar and suspended report sent weekly and reporting back to the credit control supervisor.
Allocation of monthly payments
Journals,Credit notes & debit notes.
Reports on high user accounts.
Small, Medium Enterprises and Corporate clients. 2-10 lines.
Book value of 3000 000 to 4000 000
• Customer base of at least 6000 clients.
• Hand over of bad debt accounts and black listing of handsets.
Cell C (Sandton Esher Place)
Retailer Credit Controller
Environment
• Ensure credit limits are maintained in accordance with the credit control policy on a monthly basis.
• Maintain debtors days at 45 days.
• Maintain the 90/120 days at 1%
• Ensure monthly recons balance customers remittances/Recons.
• Ensure all monthly reporting requirements are met on or before due date.
• Allocate unallocated payment and offset against credits or debits on system as per customer recons/ remittances.
• Double check delivery of stock from Warehouse/ courier direct to customer and returned stock from customer to Warehouse/ courier direct.
Primedia Broadcasting
Credit controller
Prime Talent FinanceController
Finance - Prizes Supervisor
Environment
To maintain a specific debtors listing to acceptable days outstanding, whilst minimizing bad debt and the risk of fraud.
To collect telephonically all outstanding monies, whilst maintaining an excellent customer service record.
To ensure that advertisements (airtime) are placed on hold or cancelled timorously in order to avoid risk of bad debt, this allows me to work close with Sales coordinators and Account executives.
Monitoring cash up front customers with no credit and payments to be allocated before airtime flights.
To prepare documentation for handover accounts to be handed over to Credit guarantee and the
Book value of 22 million.
Active clients of approximately inclusive of Cash Upfront customers - 1000
Reconciliations on overdue and queried account.
Extra Duties within Marketing/ Prime Talent Department
Debt collecting of presenters outstanding invoices.
Processing of invoices and credit notes
Payment allocations to correct customer account
Credit PAYE costs on invoices.
Prime talent book is strictly cash upfront unless arranged differently with finance manager.
Process all payment allocations from bank statements to correct accounts and advise payroll of percentage pay out to Prime Stars.
Environment (Prizes Supervisor)
Liaise with Sales, Programming, Service Providers, Listeners and Financial Department on a daily basis
Managing the Prize Co Ordinators
• Dealing with queries from winners, clients and staff
• Preparing financial reconciliations on a regular basis
• Managing valuable prizes
• Creating Month end Prize reports
• Ordering packaging
• Ensuring physical prize corresponds with prize description
• Responding to enquiries and complaints
• Compiling competition recons for sales & clients
• Ensure communication lines between marketing are kept open concerning events
• Ensuring that all competitions are up to date at month end
• Receiving of physical prizes
