Position: Credit Control Accountant (6
Months Contract)
Region: Nairobi
Reporting to: Head of Credit Control
Range: R3
Department: Finance
Role Purpose: Perform debtors’ reconciliations and engage customer for collection of debts.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Perform various debtors’ reconciliations to
ensure balance outstanding is well supported, documented and acknowledged
by customers.
- Perform debtors’ follow-up via emails,
telephone and visits & ensure timely payment of reconciled debts.
- Ensure all disputed amounts are fully
supported, resolved with customers’ and where credit notes are to be
issued ensure they are timely processed through the system.
- Negotiate with customers’ debt settlement plan
and payment proposals.
- Ensure bad debts are well reconciled before
hand over to private debt collectors (PDC’s).
- Follow up customers for timely submission of
allocation schedules and receipting of payments.
- Participate in preparation of proposed bad
debts write off for approval by management and preparation of various
monthly debtors’ reports
- Participate in vetting of customers applications;
ensuring compliance to various vetting requirements and advising customers
where requirements have not been met.
- Undertake other credit control assignments as
directed.
Academic Qualifications
- Min CPA II or a related accounting course
- Business degree in accounting/finance/banking
- Min two year experience in credit control and
debt collection, account payable, auditing, banking.
- Experience in computerized accounting,
knowledge of receivable/payable reconciliations
Personal Attributed
- Self-Driven
- Energetic
- Trustworthy
- Perseverance
- Diligent
- Good Judgement
Professional Skills:
- Good communication skills
- Skills in analysing detailed data
- Attention to details
- Team player
- Good computer skills (Excel/PowerPoint/Word)
- Good interpersonal skills
- Good planning and negotiation skills
This position is opened to Kenyan
citizens only.
If you fit the required profile,
please apply highlighting how your qualifications, experience and career
aspirations match the requirements for this position.
Application should be sent by latest 26th June 2015, please provide an updated Curriculum Vitae (CV) including details of your current telephone contacts and names of three referees.
Apply through
recruitment@orange-tkl.co.ke and quote the job title in the subject
field.
Only shortlisted candidates will be
contacted.
