Credit Controller at Santam Insurance

What will you do?

Niche Finance Shared Services  has a position available as a credit controller who will be based in Auckland Park.
The successful candidate will be required to perform a Credit Control Function. This will encompass the collection and follow up of outstanding debtors and allocating of monies received, and other associated activities.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Collection of premiums from Intermediaries and clients.

• Processing of payment bordereaux.

• Receipting, allocating and reconciliation of premiums on Kindle.

• Processing refunds.

• Optimizing processes.

• Implement and maintain accurate financial information

• Relationship building

• Assisting with queries and providing back-up support where required

• Resolving queries on outstanding premium and commission with business partners.

Qualification and Experience

• Matric 

• Minimum 2 years of working experience in a financial environment would be an advantage

• Accounting Knowledge

• Reconciliation experience

Skills

• Attention to detail.

• Must have analytical ability and be able to analyse data in order to solve problems and provide appropriate solutions.

• Strong client service orientation.

• Ability to work under pressure.

• Dead-line driven.

• Excellent communication skills – all levels.

• Must be Computer Literate (MSExcel & MS Word).

Core Competencies

• Cultivates innovation - Contributing independently
• Customer focus - Contributing independently
• Drives results - Contributing independently
• Collaborates - Contributing independently
• Being resilient - Contributing independently

About The Company

Santam is the market leader in the general insurance industry in Southern Africa. We are a large, diversified, expanding, and transforming company, and whilst based in South Africa, we are rapidly moving into a number of emerging markets, both in Africa and Asia.
Our success is rooted in our passion for our clients and everything we do is centered on our delivery of Insurance Good and Proper. We’re about people. People drive our business so it follows that we want to recruit the best people possible whether they work for us permanently or for a short time as temporary employees.
 
At Santam we are committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society. In achieving our employment equity goals we give preference to applicants from the designated groups in alignment with the Divisions Employment Equity targets.