Accounts Receivable Officer
About The Role:
The role will deliver quality services involving turnarounds in recovery of trade debts along with accurate allocation of receivables. To service the business with detailed analysis and evaluation of credit risk reports, collections of debts, cash receipting, dispute handling, reconciliations, and reporting.
You will be exposed to a large range of accounting fields, making this a great opportunity to grow your career in a large, leading company with a wide range of internal career advancement opportunities.
This position would suit someone who is a passionate, inquisitive individual with a unique blend of skills, understanding technical challenges, business processes and wider impacts.
Main responsibilities:
- Debtor management including credit checking, cash collection, receipting and dispute management.
- Receipting of cash received against issued invoices and resolving any un-matched cash.
- Prepare AR related reports such as Aged TB, Debtor statement, Bad and Doubtful Debt and Unallocated Cash
- Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
- Provide backup and support to other team members as workload fluctuates or leave is taken.
- Escalate issues promptly.
- Assist the finance team to manage the transactions related to AR
- Perform account reconciliations and analysis including correction journals
- Support the business and group finance teams with ad hoc reporting and analysis
- Participate in Visual Management Board (VMB) for the team, operational huddles
- Work as part of and provide support to the wider team
- Follow internal controls and processes
About You:
- JDE/SAP or similar ERP as a user (1+ years – advantageous)
- 3+ years credit control/collection experience, encompassing fundamentals of credit control processes and its impact on the business
- Experience in Accounts Receivable/ Credit Management/ Debt Collections
- Experience in Payment receipting, reconciliations and Month End Reporting
- Stakeholder management, dealing with external customers and key business stakeholders.
- High volume data entry environment, preferred Shared Services
- Excellent customer service skills, effective communication skills
- Effective time management skills.
- Advanced Excel capabilities (Essential)
- Demonstrable understanding of Account Receivable environment for a large operational business of 1000+ employees.
- Sound knowledge of AR, Banking and Commercial debt collections processes
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