Credit Control Executive

Our client a leader in the manufacturing industry is looking for a Credit Control Executive to join their team 

Responsibilities:

• Taking a proactive role in managing and collecting debts of company debtors to ensure a reduction in debtors
•  Initiate and follow up legal actions against customers with overdue balances.
•  Evaluating new credit requests and reviewing customers credit rankings
•  Ensuring timely payments from customers
• Negotiating re-payment plans
• Checking and posting of receipts to accounting systems.
•  Preparation of client status reports and all relevant information to be presented to the management
• To periodically review current company credit policies and procedures and suggest improvements
• Ensuring credit and collection policies and procedures are followed
• Liaising with customers, as well as internal personnel including the sales team

• Previous experience in a credit control environment is a must
• Experience in legal proceedings will be considered an asset
• Good negotiation skills
• Outstanding attention to detail with the ability to contribute to formulation/review contracts of supply with our debtors
• Ability to maintain strong relationships with external clients and internal colleagues
• Understand current setoffs and propose new ones as a means of protecting sales whilst collecting debts within a reasonable timeframe

• An Accounts/ Maths related qualification

• Various discounts from the outlets
• Yearly increments