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Unilever Zambia is Currently Recruiting: Accounts Receivable Specialist

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MAIN JOB PURPOSE:

Routine collection activities (verbal or written) relating to customers’ outstanding debts. Ensuring debtors days, overdue invoices and aged invoice KPI’s are delivered. Ensure bad debt is managed as per the agreed collection policy.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Statements:

  • Prepare customer statements as per customer requirements
  • Ensure statements are accurate and complete, Capgemini back posting & baselines dates are accurate
  • Invoices, credit notes & pods are sent to customer where required
  • Customer statements are sent to customer timeously
  • Customer details are accurate and complete
  • Obtain customer confirmation that statements have been received/uploaded successfully
  • Where payment date falls on a weekend or public holiday negotiate early payment

Collections:

  • Ensure invoices are paid within payment terms
  • Request early remittances to have visibility of what will not be paid.  Investigate the invoices not on remittances
  • Where pods/grv etc need to be furnished for payment, kindly ensure the customer receives this timeously
  • Ensure account is reconciled timeously to enable the early follow up on possible second payment
  • Regularly extract ledger and proactively follow up on aged invoices
  • Invoices greater than 90 days that are under dispute must be escalated for assistance with recovery or highlighted as possible bad debt
  • Ensure Global and local KPIs for overdue/ageing and debtors days are delivered
  • Payment plans/extended terms are approved by CDF
  • SAP should be updated with follow up comments or correspondence attached for follow up and tracking
  • Credit management solution specialist is aware of customers overdue and where orders should not be released
  • Cash In Advance customers, orders are only released after confirming payment in the bank

Cash Application:

  • Follow up on “routine” cash application with CG ensuring recons are complete timeously and KPIs are delivered
  • Completeness and accuracy of cash application by CG
  • Clearing of all reserve bank cross border payments are performed
  • Accounts are reconciled and unmatched credits are investigated
  • Remittances are reconciled within SLA
  • Delivery of cash application KPI by ensuring remittances are received and sent to CG timeously

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

  • University degree either in Finance/ Commerce/ Accounting
  • ACCA Diploma in Accounting and Business/ Chartered Accountant will be an advantage
  • 2 years Finance experience within FMCG
  • Ability to work with large data volumes
  • SAP experience will be an advantage

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