Credit Controller

C. Steinweg Group-Johannesburg, África do Sul

With offices, warehouses, and terminals at strategic locations across the globe in more than 50 countries and with over 5,500 skilled and experienced employees, Steinweg is well-equipped to handle a wide range of cargo and commodities.

Key tasks & responsibilities:
The overall purpose is to ensure that efficient collections of monies owed to the company by our customers are collected on time and in full. The resolution of customers’ queries is resolved timeously and trade within the agreed payment terms and credit limits.

Debtor account functions:

  • Contact clients before payment due dates to ensure that payments are received within the agreed credit terms.
  • Capture payments from the bank statement daily and allocate them to the correct debtor’s account.
  • Follow up on overdue to reduce the overdue daily.
  • Monitor the client’s available credit limit and make the necessary arrangements with the client.
  • Sending statements in relation to the client’s payment terms and invoices, where required.
  • Forecast to be managed daily.
  • Debtors reports are to be sent weekly.
  • General admin duties.

Communication with clients & operations:

  • Communicate with operations on overdues & queries and assist where required.
  • Set up weekly meetings with the MDs to review overdues and queries.

General Administration:

  • Follow up on queries daily.
  • File and archive all documents in accordance to company and legislative requirements.
  • Retrieve filed and archived documents when required.
  • Perform any other reasonable task that may be assigned by management or requested by the client.
  • Carry out the duties of colleagues, as requested by management, whilst other colleagues are on leave or during peak periods.

Qualifications:

  • Matric - Grade 12.
  • Tertiary qualification in Credit/Finance.
  • Credit Management 2.
  • Prepared to complete studies on Credit Management 3 to 5.

Experience:

  • Minimum of 4 years experience in a Credit Control function.
  • Dealing with a large book value of R60m+.
  • Dealing with large complex debtors.
  • Shipping knowledge would be an advantage.

Interested?: