About the Role:
Leading a small global team, this role will be accountable for developing and monitoring a robust credit control system for the AMOS Group in collaboration with sales, finance and executive team members.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee credit assessment, invoicing, credit and collection initiatives to ensure credit policies are enforced throughout the organisation and timely collections are made.
- Evaluate reports, financial data and other relevant information to determine customer credit worthiness, appropriate credit terms and limits.
- Active involvement in collection activities, collaborating with stakeholders to improve existing accounts receivable collections processes and maintain DSO within target limits.
- Support cash flow and cash forecasting in partnership with Group Treasury.
- Actively assess and manage credit control risks; implementing controls and procedures to minimize delinquent debt and unbilled revenues.
- Support financial closing and management reporting; ensure financial reports are presented in an accurate and timely manner.
- Provide strong leadership, direction, and management to the team members, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment.
- Support ad-hoc tasks and projects as assigned from time to time.
Qualifications:
- Degree in Accountancy or equivalent or extensive relevant work experience.
Required Skills:
- 5-8 years of relevant experience in accounts receivable with recent years leading credit control operations.
- Working knowledge of designing/ implementing/ monitoring credit control policies, procedures and best practices that lead to tangible improvements in DSO and AR performance.
- Ability to manage the complexities associated with geographically distributed teams and cultures.
- Hands-on experience with SAP and other ERP systems.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Critical attributes - Proactive and hands-on leadership style, “can-do” and “roll up the sleeves” attitude, strong interpersonal and communication skills, strong analytical abilities, process thinking and problem-solving skills.
