Executive Accounts Receivable

Job Summary

The role supports accounts receivable collections, accounting, reconciliation and reporting, ensuring customer ledgers are maintained and reconciled on an ongoing basis. The successful candidate will demonstrate an analytical mindset, attention to detail, and strong interpersonal skills to manage customer relationships and internal stakeholder expectations. They will actively contribute to improving cash flow, reducing aged debt, and supporting overall financial health and transparency of the organization.

General Responsibilities

• Record all accounts receivable and collection transactions to ensure timely and accurate monthly and yearly accounts receivable closing.
• Prepare and review debtor aging reports, match receipts against invoices and aged balances.
• Follow up on payments due, solve disputes and provide clarifications to debtors to ensure timely collections
• Send debtors' confirmations and confirm intercompany balances with the relevant countries for month-end closing purposes
• Respond to queries and clarifications to internal stakeholders on debtors' outstanding balances, collections, etc.
• Work closely with customers/build relationship with customers on collections and reconciliation of balances to ensure accurate and timely recovery of payments
• Support customer rebate calculations and process approved amounts to customer ledgers
• Provide administrative support with the preparation of the monthly accounts receivable status reports, collection status and receivables analysis (e.g. days’ sales outstanding, receivables turnover, etc.) for accountability purposes.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation and compliance with company policies and audit requirements.
• Create/update new customers using Customer creation form portal
• Forecasting of cash collections & Tactical cash flow forecast with minimum variances.

Functional Skills

• Demonstrate experience in the accounts receivable function including managing the accounts receivable ledger, internal and external customer management and issue resolution.
• Previous experience with high volume customer accounts with complex rebate and claims.
• Demonstrate strong attention to detail, strong analytical and reconciliation skills.
• Demonstrate proficiencies in office productivity tools (e.g. Excel, Word and PowerPoint), previous SAP experience is highly recommended.
• Demonstrate fluency in local language and ideally in English, both written and spoken
• Fluent oral and written English
• Drive to follow and resolve issues through to the end – sense of accountability
• Passionately results oriented with high sense of responsibility
• High attention to detail
• Act with a sense of urgency
• Able to work autonomously

Education

• Professional qualification in Business Admin, Finance or a related discipline
• Up to 2 years' experience