Responsibilities
- Chair a weekly online debtors’ meeting and follow up with the designated “Sales Person” in Palladium for each customer to assist in collecting all overdue debts.
- Identifying the reasons for persistent, generally small, balances (both negative and positive) on the Accounts Receivable ledger and driving through a strategy to get rid of them permanently across the Company.
- Promptly confirm receipt of individual customer payments.
- Promptly and accurately posting payment receipts to individual customer accounts in Palladium to ensure the Accounts Receivables ledger is kept up to date.
- Calculating late payment interest monthly and promptly invoicing customers including our shareholder farms, the same at the end of every month.
- Overseeing customer account reconciliations for all customer credit accounts and keeping each customer account reconciled at all times.
Qualifications:
- Must have a relevant bachelor’s in Finance or any other related field with CPA Qualification.
- Excellent writing, communication, and presentation skills. When chasing large customers for overdue debts there is a skill in being firm and polite – verbally and in writing via email.
- Pro-active, punctual and service-minded always. You will be expected to respond to colleagues’ banking receipt queries promptly and efficiently.
- Good attention to detail. Efficient. Reliable. Dependable.
- Proficiency with Google Workspace and Microsoft Office suite, especially with Excel.
- Knowledge of Palladium accounting software would be an advantage.
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