Accountant / Debt Recovery Officer at Rotation and Precision Machines Limited

Responsibilities

• Reviewing and tracking RPM’s debtor lists
• Developing and maintaining a cordial relationship with clients’ finance department
• Planning course of action to recover owed money
• Contacting customers and informing them of their overdue bills.
• Negotiating payoff deadlines and payment plans
• Identifying gaps in the system and recommending solutions
• Building trust with debtors
• Updating receivables status on the database appropriately
• Compiling the list of recovered amounts on a weekly/monthly basis
• Updating the Sales Engineers on their client’s receivables status on a weekly basis usually on Monday
• Complying with requirements when legal action is unavoidable.
• Accurately billing the client
• Ensuring the correctness of submitted documents to reduce payment delays beyond the agreed timeline
• Follow up on receivables status.
• To ensure payment is collected within agreed timelines.
• To track and ensure the collection of cash and debt receivables
• Visibility and real-time information
• To avoid granting Credit Sales to non-worthy or chronic debt customers
• To avoid credit sales turning to bad debt.

Requirements

• BSc/ HND degree in Finance or Accounting
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in debt/ cash recovering
• Professional qualification (ICAN) is considered a plus.
• Smart analytical, detailed, strategic, and conceptual thinking skills.
• Advanced MS Excel skills.
• Knowledge of financial regulations.
• Excellent analytical and numerical skills..
• Strong ethics, with an ability to manage confidential data.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.