Senior Credit Controller

Report to the National Credit Manager. Successful incumbent will have Grade 12, with a completed tertiary qualification in finance or ICMSA (Certified Credit Management). Minimum 3 years experience as a Senior Credit Controller within the FMCG industry essential with a proven track record of working on a debtors book of R100m. Exposure with credit control management of chainstores, wholesale, distributors, buying groups, independent and informal trade essential. Experience in both open item and balance brought forward customer reconciliations essential. Vetting by assessing risk for new and existing customers; timeous and prompt collection of customer payments on or before due dates with no cost to the business ie. additional discounts; reduction of overdue balances (invoices and claims) in consultation with respective BU's, the Call Centre and the Deports, using an up-to-date Age Analysis, daily application and allocation of payments, processing and allocation of approved credit notes; daily credit risk assessment for escalation where the business is exposed with the daily management of suspended orders; Customer Master Data integrity ie. correct and up-to-date is maintained as approved and aligned with business needs; adhoc projects as the need arises and interaction with all BU's. Syspro highly advantageous as well as above-average Excel skills