Credit Officer Job in Kenya

Our client in the health sector is seeking to recruit a Credit Officer to join their team.
 
Salary: 60K - 70K
 
Primary Purpose: effective management of medical debtors in compliance with the hospitals’ credit policy and containment of credit risk.

Key Performance Areas (KPAs)

Customer Focus

  • Responsible for ensuring that clients are handled in a professional manner, the information provided is correct and clients are correctly referred.
  • Confer with other departments to aid in resolving medical debtors balance problems.
  • Client relationship management to ensure there is continued Sales Focus
Credit Management
  • Evaluation of debtor accounts, with reference to risk factors:  Financial analysis, Credit evaluation and assessment, Collateral.
  • Ensure all applicable documentation for debtors are received from other service departments.
  • Ensure that documents for payments are completed correctly with the required authorization and signatures.
  • Preparing reports and standard statements / Ensure that monthly ageing reports are submitted to respective stakeholders.
  • Ensuring that customer contracts are complete and legally correct.
  • Review and update debtors ageing report and debtors general ledger.
  • Ensuring that difference between source documents and the System are corrected and the adjustments are filed.
  • Enforce credit policies, credit lines, procedures and standards in conjunction with senior managers.
  • Achieving credit control assessment targets / audit.
  • Collect all due claims
Payments
  • Compute refund payment schedules as per agreed timelines.
  • Prepare and pass quarterly, Midyear and annual discounts due to Insurance Companies.
Core Competencies:
  • Customer focus
  • Delivering Results and meeting customer expectations
  • Planning & Organizing
  • Assertive
  • Interpersonal Sensitivity
  • Problem Solving and Analytic
  • Insight/understanding
  • Ability to work well under pressure
  • Friendliness
  • Quality conscious
  • Communicating orally/written
  • Teamwork
  • Reliability
  • Resilience
Experience / Knowledge & Skills
  • 3 to 4 years general credit and reconciliation experience in a busy hospital
  • Knowledge of Credit principles
  • Computer literacy essential (Word, Excel)
  • Good Leadership skills
  • Excellent interpersonal relationship skills
  • Skill in analyzing and evaluating financial information.
  • Passion to work with numbers
Qualifications
  • Bachelor Degree (Finance/Accounts Major).
  • CPA/ACA part 2
Kindly send your application to jobs@jantakenya.com clearly indicating ‘Credit Officer’ on the subject y line. 


Do not attach any certificates.

Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted.