Head of Debtors

Qualifications, Experience, Attributes

• Preference will be given to an individual with a financial degree/diploma
• Minimum 5 years head of debtors and strong management experience
• Minimum of 5 years experience in debtors finance

Skills

• Strong Reconciliation Skills
• Syspro Skills an advantage
• Advanced Microsoft Excel
• Strong analytical skills
• Ability to work in a highly pressured and fast paced environment

Duties and Responsibilities

General:

• Maintain a department structure sufficient to meet goals & objectives
• Responsible for full function of credit vetting
• Manage, train, motivate and retain staff
• Measure department performance
• Manage relations with credit agencies
• Maintain the company credit policy
• Meet set deliverables
• Analyse performance of existing clients
• Monitor credit granting
• Monthly reporting to management

Monthly

• Check and sign off legal accounts
• Bank reconciliations of cash sale and debtors accounts (done twice a month)
• Assist credit controllers with payment allocations at month end
• Insure that debtors statements are sent out timeously
• Check and sign off declarations
• Submit monthly age analysis for declaration purposes
• Do cash collection projections for the company
• Do cash collection projections for Botswana & Namibia
• Submit month end age analysis to Management
• Submit debtors report
• Submit debtors analysis report
• Advise A winter of status of Africa branch accounts
• Do bad debt provisions for SA, Botswana & Namibia
• Check debtors exception reports
• Insure that all debtors review are done and signed off for the month
• Check and sign off all cash sale reconciliations
• Monthly debtors meeting with branches
• Check and sign off all cash sale reconciliations (Namibia & Botswana)
• Go through age analysis with credit controllers
• Receive management reports from controllers and check reporting to
• Oversee bank audits
• Assist with sorting out bank retentions