Head of Debtors

 

Recruiter:

Broad Based Executive Appointments

Job Ref:

CM53

Date posted:

Thursday, March 10, 2022

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

Negotiable


JOB SUMMARY:
Head of Debtors

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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

 

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