Are you an energetic and vibrant individual with strong Credit Control skills and eager to join a finance team who sparkles under pressure? Are you passionate about Creditors but yet seek a role with diversity? Then this position at Europcar in Bruma as a Credit Controller would be the ideal stepping stone in your career.
The purpose of the position is minimizing risk to the business by monitoring active accounts and managing the credit terms and limits of these accounts through collecting payments timeously. This is done through meeting customer requirements for payment and professionally communicating indebtedness to customers, thereby delivering excellent customer service and reducing/preventing bad debt losses.
- Telephonic and electronic collections of all amounts due.
- KPI would be to log a minimum of 32 customer contacts daily.
- Conduct regular customer visits to build and maintain good customer relationships, and proactive prevention of issues developing.
- Ensure that at least 100% average of the monthly targeted collections is achieved.
- Investigating and logging all queries on outstanding accounts, following up and providing feedback to the customer once queries have been resolved.
- Analysis of overdue amounts on accounts to highlight areas of improvement or problems to be attended to.
- Regular reporting and feedback regarding problem accounts. Escalation of problem accounts to the Credit Manager within prescribed time frames.
- Processing and allocation of all payments received as per the daily bank statement and deposit slips strictly in accordance with the remittance advice from the customer.
- Preparation of journals with supporting documentation. Filing, record keeping and various other admin duties.
- Effectively minimize bad debt and increase collections
Minimum Experience
- 3 years in a senior credit control environment
Minimum Qualification
- NQF Level 4 (Matric or equivalent) Preferred Qualification
- Credit Management II, BCom in Finance, or similar tertiary qualification in Finance. – advantageous
Minimum Requirements
- Valid unendorsed driver’s license
- Multilingualism would be an advantage
- MS Excel – intermediate skills
Competencies:
- Communication skills in English (read, write & speak)
- Planning and organizing skills
- Able to work under pressure.
- Client relationship building
• Initiative • Persuasiveness
- Results driven and orientated
• Business acumen • Financial acumen
- Excel skills Personal Attributes:
- Self-motivated, trustworthy and highly responsible.
• Friendly, approachable • Reliable
