Job Summary
Our Client in Cape Town is looking to hire a dedicated and detail-oriented Debtors Clerk to join their finance team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing accounts receivable, ensuring timely payments, and maintaining excellent customer relationships. If you are highly organized, have a strong understanding of financial processes, and are eager to contribute to a fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you
Requirements
- Matric with at least 5 years of international debtors experience
- An independent self-starter who uses their excellent attention to detail and work ethic to deliver OTIF
- Works well as part of a team to deliver results and meet deadlines
- Strong systems aptitude and ability to think on their feet
- Strong planning and organizing skills that enable them to deliver OTIF against monthly objectives
- Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills that enable them to communicate difficult information in a diplomatic way
- Firm yet polite
- Strong computer literacy and experience working on financial systems in a similar role (Syspro)
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills together with a “can do” attitude for getting things done
Key Roles
- Perform full debtors function including maintaining customer data, sending out monthly statements and processing of receipts
- Accounting for interest, discounts and rebates
- Reconcile individual debtors accounts
- Resolve queries on customer accounts
- Update cashflow forecast for customer receipts on a weekly basis
- Maintain customer information on the accounting system
- Monitor age analysis and follow up to ensure that payments are made timeously
- Collect overdue amount, escalating potential problems to relevant managers
- Liaise with Customer re payment terms and overdue payments
- Implement intercompany transactions
- Ensures that tasks are completed in accordance with accounting standards
- Adhere to agreed deadlines
- Provide assistance to the finance team as required
- Supports auditors with year-end audits