Senior Accountant – Credit Control

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Core Responsibilities:

Analysis

• Receive new credit requests and submit for evaluation from commercial and review customers’ credit rankings with banks.
• Implement the credit policy by regularly checking the credit report and flagging any high-risk customers.
• Proactively manage debt collection on assigned portfolio accounts and maintain proper communication with customers to ensure smooth collections.
• Issue statements of accounts to customers using established guidelines.
• Review requests for payment plans and implement them accordingly.
• Be the focal point for customers and coordinate internally to answer queries and resolve disputes in order to facilitate payments from customers.
• Prepare working file for bad debt and ECL provisions Coordinate with treasury and collection for any payment rEliminate non-value activities and seek automation for repetitive tasks
• Have a strong systematic approach towards dunning processes

Communication

• Preparation of customer files for legal support and escalation to senior management.
• Preparing weekly reports on credit control performance.
• Maintain and document accurate activities on daily basis.
• Able to have a firm but fair attitude towards dispute resolution with customers
• Experience in communicating with people of different cultural backgrounds

Reporting

• Weekly collection reports.
• Weekly Ageing reports.
• Report for provision on doubtful receivable balances.
• Customer account analysis.
• Propose write offs.
• Related party aging report.
• Intercompany aging.

Others

• Implementation of policies and procedures relating to credit control section.
• Continuous enhancement of processes and procedures to improve efficiency.eceived.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Accounting or Finance
• CPA, CMA, ACCA will be an added advantage
• Accounting degree and advance knowledge of accounting