Ongoing Recruitment at Airtel Zambia Now – December 2016


Job Deadline 9 December
Airtel is the number ONE service provider covering every district in Zambia and offering the widest range of tariffs & Value Added Services on the market suiting all our subscribers. The role is key to providing support on Revenue Accounting and Debtors management for Credit, Bank Guarantee, Corporate & Postpaid accounts and Site rentals.
Job Title: Revenue Reporting Accountant

Responsibilities

  • Prepaid and postpaid Revenue reporting
  • Provide RA validated Revenue reporting inputs from IT and Marketing to ACE for prepaid and postpaid  Review of revenue output from ACE team
  • Prepare and analyze revenue, monthly or quarterly revenue review
  • Ensure compliance with report input SLA
  • Debt Management
  • Proactive monitoring of potential bad debt and follow up with sales and commercial to expedite collections for Credit customers, Corporate, Partners & Postpaid debtors
  • Liaison with Customer Service team & Credit Collection team on collections and representation at collections meetings held regularly
  • Timely follow up on settlement of dues from collection partners
  • Ensure completeness of bad debt provision every month end in line with SOP
  • Distributor claims management
  • Monthly validation of Distributor Incentives calculation versus targets in liaison with S & D
  • Ensure completeness of Incentive processing to avert omissions and inaccuracies
  • Tracking and approval of Incentive orders duly validated by tax team through Order Management System and S&D portal are within SLA
  • Ensure credit notes are passed based on Incentive schedule as incentive stock orders are booked to prevent debit balances on accounts
  • Liaison with SCM or FR & AP for timely payment of incentives where applicable
  • Responsible for accurate Target Incentive provisioning monthly to reflect true balance of Incentives Payable
  • Credit Management – Distributor debtors
  • Approval of distributor orders for credit accounts and Bank Guarantee to line with credit policy and within billing SLA
  • Provide twice weekly reconciliation of debtors to sales, marketing and Enterprise departments to facilitate timely collections on credit accounts
  • Daily review of age analysis for appropriate action
  • Ensure compliance with terms & conditions of Bank guarantees & performance bonds held as security overdue amounts, limits, validity & release instructions from banks where applicable
  • Initiation of timely reminders for renewal of security in line with Credit Policy
  • Seeking waivers from group where in breach of policies to ensure smooth business operations and mitigate audit findings
  • Aligning of payment terms in place with those reflected in S&D portal and ASI
  • Overall management of bad debt on the portfolio to ensure no incremental provision is booked
  • Daily monitoring of Bank Guarantee accounts
  • Dealer reconciliation & confirmation
  • Responsible for reconciliation of dealer accounts in line with SOP & distributor categorization
  • Confirmation and sign off of balances for portfolio accounts
  • Obtaining No due certificates on all accounts
  • Report unusual transactions and discrepancies to Channel Accounting Manager
  • Balance Sheet Integrity
  • Reconciliation of revenue, deferred revenue accounts and debtors accounts
  • Review and closure unreconciled items within SOP
  • Analyze various balance sheet accounts and reconcile monthly
  • Controls & Compliance
  • Adherence to SOPs in revenue accounting and reporting
  • Ensure compliance with SOP, credit policy and bad debt provisioning guidelines.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance and Must have completed Part two of ACCA or CIMA
  • Three years in accounting
  • Strong analytical skills and problem solving skills
  • Excellent planning skills
  • Strong personal commitment to meet deadlines and ability to align other contributors in the organization
  • Strong Communication Skills – written and oral
  • Ability to function under pressure
  • Proactive
  • Ability to network and leverage on network to deliver results

How to apply
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