About the position
Exciting opportunity to join our Client in the Retail Food and Beverage industry for a Debtors Manager, based in Brackenfell, Cape Town.
We are seeking an energetic individual to effectively manage the Debtors functions, by monitoring and improving business and financial processes, managing the team in order that the financial controls and outputs meet the required level of service, producing financial reports and planning for the long-term financial goals of the team and business.
Responsibilities
- Managing, motivating and developing a team
- Identify and improve KPIs
- Stakeholder management
- Analysing and updating existing accounts receivable, processes to create efficiencies
- Ensure all customer payments are received within the agreed payment terms
- Month-end Processes
- Month-end Reporting
- Debtors forecasting
- Change management of people and processes
- Ensure all accounts are paid within terms
Requirements:
- Knowledge of management accounting principles and practices
- Leadership, people and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team
- Ability to work under pressure
- Good communication skills - verbal and written
- Advanced computer literacy
- Resilient, flexible, able to adapt to a changing environment
- Detailed knowledge of interest calculations
- Budget / Forecasting knowledge
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders in the business
- Monthly and weekly focused reporting to Business Units highlighting problem debtors
- Management of all intercompany billings and the filing thereof
- Month-end Processing i.e. accurate matching of customer payments to invoices, resolving customer queries, reporting accurate balances, ensure Customer Control in line with GL, ensure unallocated payments are allocated
- Monthly Debtors Balance Forecasting
- Account receivable year end audit
- Approve bank activations for debit orders, Approve weekly debit order deductions
- Master Data Maintenance i.e. vat no, contact details
- Formalise SOP and embed in team and business
- Recruitment
- Full team management.
Desired Skills:
- Debtors Management
- Debtors
