Accounts Receivable Controller
Intrinsic Consulting Solutions
- R Undisclosed
- Permanent Intermediate position
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South Africa
- Posted 21 Jul 2025 by Intrinsic Consulting Solutions
- Expires in 8 days
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Job 2617368 - Ref CPT000444
About the position
Our client is looking for an Accounts Receivable Controller to join their dynamic team.
The incumbent will be responsible for building positive relationships with both internal and external customers to ensure timely payments and reduce bad debt.
This role involves collections on all outstanding accounts, investigating student account queries, and providing information to relevant internal departments for timely and accurate correction.
The role requires a customer centric approach and the ability to solve problems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collections:
- Daily collections on assigned age analysis
- Meeting monthly collection targets and reducing portfolio risk.
- Escalating and assisting with account-related queries (Billings/Payments/Statements).
- Following up on promise-to-pays on specified dates.
- Ensuring correct Master Data is updated and maintained.
- Immediately addressing debit orders returned unpaid from the bank, contacting account payers, and arranging payments.
- Administration:
- Ensuring monthly updated Debtors Trackers are distributed.
- Ensuring recommended Suspension/Termination Lists are distributed.
- Preparing requested refunds.
- Making recommendations for bad debts.
- Approving handover files.
- Relationship Management:
- Handling Account Payer complaints, providing appropriate solutions and alternatives.
- Communicating with internal departments to maintain an accurate position on accounts.
- Ensuring monthly meetings are held with stakeholders.
- Resolving all queries in line with Collections SOP's.
- Bad Debt Management:
- Ensuring all potential bad debt accounts are sent on for review in line with pre-legal requirements.
Educational Requirements:
- Grade 12
- Credit Management/Finance qualification
- Knowledge of accounting software
- Knowledge of Excel
Experience Requirements:
- 1 to 3 years minimum experience as an Accounts Receivable Controller
Desired Skills:
- Receive payments timeously
- manage debt collection
- Investigating queries on student accounts
- Handle account payer complaints
- customer focussed
- Build relationships with internal stakeholders
Intrinsic Consulting Solutions
About the agency
At ICS, our client and candidate centric processes provide a platform for excellent service delivery of a wide range of human resource solutions to organisations large and small. Our ability to identify key elements of current and future organisational requirements and then, source assess and select the right resource to meet those needs is the driver of our success.
Our consultants are all experienced in delivering Human Resource solutions in some of the most demanding environments to very exacting standards where results are critical to organisational success. They have worked locally, on the wider African continent and overseas, giving them both a breadth and depth of experience to add value. Our competency framework allows organisations to drill down to the key attributes they seek and consultants to identify those attributes in a structured and uniform manner.
Based in Century City the company location provides for convenient access for our candidate base and a central base of operations for our consulting staff to all areas of the Western Cape. This fits in with our commitment to face to face interactions as a basis for not only establishing position requirements and company culture, but also candidate suitability
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