Senior Accountant – Credit Control
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About the Role
AD Ports Group is hiring a Senior Accountant for Credit Control in Abu Dhabi. The role involves managing debt collection, implementing credit policy, and preparing reports. Candidates need 6-8 years of experience in credit control or accounts receivable, and a Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
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Responsibilities
- Receive new credit requests and submit for evaluation, review customers' credit rankings
- Implement credit policy by regularly checking credit reports and flagging high risk customers
- Proactively manage debt collection on assigned portfolio accounts
- Issue statements of accounts to customers
- Review requests for payment plans and implement them
- Prepare weekly reports on credit control performance
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Accounting or Finance
- Minimum 6 8 years of experience in a similar role
- Experience in Credit Control, Accounts Receivable, Collections, or Revenue Accounting
- Experience evaluating customer creditworthiness and reviewing credit applications
- Proven track record in debt collection and reducing overdue receivables
- Excellent in English; Arabic is an added advantage
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Job Description
- Responsible for Credit Control and managing debt collection for the assigned portfolio of accounts.
- Ensure payment plans agreed with customers are strictly adhered to.
- Facilitate implementation and compliance to the approved credit policy.
- Assist senior management in executing a comprehensive and robust credit control function in line with corporate credit policy.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Eliminate non value activities and seek automation for repetitive tasks.
- Have a strong systematic approach towards dunning processes.
- Preparation of customer files for legal support and escalation to senior management.
- Preparing weekly reports on credit control performance.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Accounting or Finance
- Excellent in English, Arabic is an added advantage
- A minimum of 6 8 years of experience in a similar role
- Minimum experience in Credit Control, Accounts Receivable, Collections, or Revenue Accounting.
- Experience evaluating customer creditworthiness and reviewing credit applications.
- Experience working with credit reports, bank references, and customer credit assessments.
- Proven track record in debt collection and reducing overdue receivables.
- Experience managing a portfolio of customer accounts and following up on outstanding payments.
- Strong background in customer relationship management and dispute resolution.
- Experience negotiating and monitoring customer payment plans.
- Experience preparing and analyzing aging reports, collection reports, and receivable reconciliations.
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