Finance / Accounts Officer at ConSol Limited

Location: Oshodi, Lagos

Job Duties / Responsibilities / Accountabilities

• Liaison with the marketing / sales department to ensure that credit issues are resolved to smoothly.
• Checking customer’s credit situation
• Deciding whether or not to offer the credit
• Dealing with internal queries about payments, ensuring customers pay on time and negotiating re-payment plans
• Assist in the setting up of credit control system
• Ensure that debts are paid in a timely manner
• Meet cash and & debtor day targets set by a firm
• Chase overdue invoices within agreed timescales
• Regularly making contact to ensure all relevant debts are managed as necessary
• Identify changes in payment patterns and propose action to avert indebtedness
• Ensure that all transaction are compliant with Company’s policies
• Handle disputed bills and negotiate to bring payment within the agreed terms
• Provide accurate advice on billing queries
• Respond promptly and completely to both client and internal enquiries
• Propose write-off of irrecoverable receivables
• Providing ad-hoc reporting as and when requested by management
• Undertake account reconciliations as required
• Send out monthly client statements / letters as may be agreed from time to time
• If any customer stops paying or pay late then it’s your responsibility to stop the providing services, start legal action to collect the money owed( if necessary) and in the case of bankruptcy u have to report to your higher management about the strategies to make sure you can recover what you can.
• You are expected to regularly review the company’s debt recovery procedures.
• Plan, organize and manage own workload to ensure contribution to company’s monthly financial reporting process is achieved in timely and accurate manner.
• Assist with end of year and ends of month preparation procedure
• Prepare invoices in line with contracts/ Purchase Order
• Post Invoices and Purchase Order into appropriate General Ledger heads
• All aspect of sales ledger, raising invoices, re –issue invoices and raising credit notes
• Investigating and resolving queries relating to invoices
• Perform other related duties as many be assigned by the Finance Manager.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of 1 year work experience.