Senior Accountant – Credit Control

Job Description

The purpose of this role is to ensure payments with customers are strictly followed, the Sr. Accountant - Credit Control Monetization is responsible for proactively managing debt collection on assigned portfolios of accounts. Also to facilitate the compliance with approved credit policies and assist senior management in executing an effective credit control and collection function based on credit policy.

Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities:

• Oversee accurate collection of payments for these assets.
• Coordinate with KF or the sales company team to ensure all payment information is correctly uploaded.
• Review and verify the status of security deposit collections.
• Provide relevant data and reports regarding PDC dates, due amounts, and any returned cheques associated with these assets.
• Update collection and outstanding records weekly to support timely statement closures.
• Upon deal closure, record all received payments and reconcile collections to maintain an accurate balance in the Kezad system, ensuring proper handover of PDCs to the new purchasing company.
• Apply collected security deposits in the system against closed statements as required.
• Proceed collection process to ensure that outstanding receivables are recovered in a timely manner as per credit terms.
• Sending customer statement of account and follow up with customer for overdue payment.
• Follow up with billing/commercial departments for resolving the disputed invoices
• Escalation to the management if dues are doubtful to provide bad debts provision
• Prepare ad-hoc reports as and when requested
  
  

Qualifications

Educational and Technical Qualifications:

• Accounting Degree Bachelor’s degree or higher in accounting
• Knowledge on ERP, preferably Oracle financials
• Strong communications skills
• Good Analytical interpersonal skills
• Strong understanding of billing and collection processes.
• Working under pressure.
• Has teamwork and innovations skills.
  
  

Language Skills: Written and spoken English is a must. Knowledge of Arabic will be an added advantage

Years of Experience: Requires at least 4 years of experience in Accounting & Finance or Documentation in transportation or related industry

Nature of Experience: Finance, Accounts Receivables, Credit Control etc.