MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Maintaining and monitoring accounts

• Manage and monitor company’s total debtor’s book
• Ensure that book debt is secured and collected within
• terms
• Monitor and review special arrangements and legal
• accounts
• Setting up payment plans incurring interest
• Reviewing – Approve and decline new accounts
• Ensuring appropriate security when required to
• mitigate risk
• Submitting and monitoring claims with CGIC
• Setting of procedures and policies ensuring that they
• are adhered to
• Reconciling accounts
• Weekly cash projections
• Liaising with sales staff
• Ensuring internal and external queries are resolved
• Local and export customers

Staff – Manage credit control department

• Setting of objectives and targets
• Appraisals of key performance areas
• Training of personnel
• Setting and analysing budgets/fixed costs
• Interviewing/employing staff members

Reports

• Monthly debtor’s summary
• Special arrangement accounts progress
• Process legal accounts and costs
• Provisions for doubtful debts
• Declarations for CGIC

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Must have Credit Management level 4 qualification or higher and a Finance related degree (Bcom etc.).
• A minimum of 5 years in a top Credit Manager position
• Must have national credit management experience,running a Credit Control department that oversees a number of company’s books
• Manufacturing experience
• MS Excel and MS Word literacy
• Good oral and written communication skill
• Able to work accurately and under pressure
• Self-starter & teamwork persona

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Relocation costs will be covered if necessary.