Job Description
- KPA – National retail company wants to employ a Debtors Clerk: –
- Optimal / Effective role is fulfilled within the finance department – full function debtors and credit control compliance.
- To ensure that the Debtors functions is executed professionally, providing effective support.
Duties and responsibilities
- Ensure all POD’s are scanned and saved on one drive.
- Checking of bank accounts daily and assist bookkeeper on customer allocations.
- Proactively collect remittances from customers, ensuring payments allocated correctly.
- Resolving and finding adhoc receipts and always reconcile account.
- Reconciliation handed to FM at month end and get the bookkeeper to sign off the recon first.
- Always keep admin up to date.
- Customer information
- Credit applications and limits
- Follow up on outstanding credit applications
- Saving of credit applications
- Proactive on all online systems, around collecting of debt
- Always ensure prompt responses to clients in a professional manner
- Collecting of debt and strive for – 10 days of collection on all current date
- Always be available to assist customers.
- Ensure debtors queries are seen urgent and strive 30-day in resolving them.
- Communication is key in debtors with all parties, especially sales colleagues and clients
- Daily invoicing of all clients, to Group and following up on return emails
- Monthly statements to be sent to all customers by no later, the 2nd day of each month.
- Strive to by the 7th of each month to have contacted clients.
- The 5th working day of each month, ensure all debtors account.
- Ensure that our DSO target of 10 days is achieved and maintained.
- Assist with all month end request and closing of the month end procedure.
- Provide support within all audits and the finance team.
Requirements
- Matric
- Financial background
- Credit control experience (above 3 years)
- Debtor/Credit control experience, above 3 years, in similar role and actively able to perform full debtors’ function.
- Communication: Verbal/telephonic and written (emails, reports and message taking.)
- Customer service skills (customer focus.)
- Multitasking and strong administrative debtors’ skills.
- Adapt to new systems and programs and use them actively.