Credit Specialist

We are looking for an experienced Credit Specialist to work for one of our clients, who are a market leader in their field of Electronics manufacturing. The main focus of the role is to maintain and manage the Sales Ledger and be the primary customer contact for credit and collection activities

The role requires a proactive approach, to work with their truly international customer base to expedite payments, resolve credit issues, negotiate and monitor payment schedules, have the ability to communicate effectively and be well versed in international VAT.

• Credit Control
  Responsible for effective credit control;
  Creating new Customer accounts on SAP and informing customers of credit limit;
  Use of D&B to review credit and suggesting credit limit
• Chasing payments
  Issuing customer statements;
  Chasing payment using telephone and E‑mail;
  After a receipt is allocated, identify items not paid and follow up immediately with customer
• Deal with customer queries
  Chase down credits for returns, progress price queries and resulting credit notes;
  Provide copy invoices as requested and inform customer of credit status
• Monitor credit and overdue invoices
  Run reports from SAP to identify overdue accounts in arrears and put accounts on hold if needed;
  Run open Sales orders to identify required shipments for overdue customers;
  Proactively communicate with customer as to resolution and decide whether to stop shipments;
  Communicate with regional sales managers when customers are about to be put on hold;
  Negotiate special terms to resolve old debt to allow some business to take place and lower exposure
• Generating reports
  Create a weekly aged debt report by region and identify accounts on hold with comments/issues
• Accounting
  Maintain Sales Ledger;
  Enter all Cash Receipts;
  Post Cash receipts from Bank Statements;
  Allocate cash receipts on customer accounts and chase for allocations where none provided;
  Reconcile Sales Ledger to GL;
  Compare Sales Ledger to GL control accounts and identify and report any differences;
  Create journal entries arising from sales ledger as required;
  Identify inter‑company journals, foreign currency exposure/revaluation journals;
  Prepare VAT returns and EC Sales listing and monthly returns;
  Prepare EC sales lists quarterly;
  Reconcile GL VAT accounts;
  Reconciliation of Bank accounts and bank clearing accounts;
  Reconcile bank clearing accounts monthly;
  Prepare and enter any resulting journal entries;
  Enter journals arising from Sales ledger, Bank reconciliation and VAT

Bachelors degree in Accounting or Finance or equivalent experience

• 3-5 years previous experience within accounting including credit control
• Strong communication, organizational and interpersonal skills
• Ability to recommend credit direction in the best interests of the company
• Solid problem‑solving and negotiating skills
• Ability to multi‑task
• Computer knowledge (Excel, SAP, Power Point, Word, Outlook)