Account Receivable Officer
Key Function
Responsibilities
- Reviewing and tracking RPM’s debtor lists
- Developing and maintaining a cordial relationship with clients’ finance department
- Planning course of action to recover owed money
- Contacting customers and informing them of their overdue bills.
- Negotiating payoff deadlines and payment plans
- Identifying gaps in the system and recommending solutions
- Building trust with debtors
- Updating receivables status on the database appropriately
- Compiling the list of recovered amounts on a weekly/monthly basis
- Updating the Sales Engineers on their client’s receivables status on a weekly basis usually on Monday
- Complying with requirements when legal action is unavoidable.
- Accurately billing the client
- Ensuring the correctness of submitted documents to reduce payment delays beyond the agreed timeline
- Follow up on receivables status.
- To ensure payment is collected within agreed timelines.
- To track and ensure the collection of cash and debt receivables
- Visibility and real-time information
- To avoid granting Credit Sales to non-worthy or chronic debt customers
- To avoid credit sales turning to bad debt
Requirements:
- BSc/ HND degree in Finance or Accounting
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in debt/ cash recovering
- Professional qualification (ICAN) is considered a plus.
- Smart analytical, detailed, strategic, and conceptual thinking skills.
- Advanced MS Excel skills.
- Knowledge of financial regulations.
- Excellent analytical and numerical skills..
- Strong ethics, with an ability to manage confidential data.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: [email protected] using the position as subject of email.
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