Assistant Credit Control

General Responsibilities

• Support superior in managing day-to-day operating expenditures against operating budgets to ensure efficient usage of resources
• Support the implementation of credit policy, processes and internal controls to ensure governance over the credit control/collections function
• Gather and compile new customers' corporate and financial information to support the verification of creditworthiness
• Prepare the summary of credit and collection history of existing customers for tracking and decision-making purposes
• Support the follow-up of payments due, solve basic disputes and provide clarifications to debtors to ensure timely collections 
• Ensure new terms and conditions arising from renegotiation of customer payment plans and reassignment of credit limits are captured in the system
• Provide administrative support to continuous improvement initiatives that streamline existing credit control processes and improve efficiencies through a better utilization of automated systems 
• Provide information to internal stakeholders on debtors' outstanding balances, collections, etc.
• Work closely with customers on collections and reconciliation of balances to ensure accurate and timely recovery of payments