Senior Credit Controller at Smith Garb

Report to the National Credit Manager.  

• Successful incumbent will have Grade 12, with a completed tertiary qualification in finance or ICMSA (Certified Credit Management).  
• Minimum 3 years experience as a Senior Credit Controller within the FMCG industry essential with a proven track record of working on a debtors book of R100m.  
• Exposure with credit control management of chainstores, wholesale, distributors, buying groups, independent and informal trade essential.  
• Experience in both open item and balance brought forward customer reconciliations essential.  
• Vetting by assessing risk for new and existing customers; timeous and prompt collection of customer payments on or before due dates with no cost to the business ie. additional discounts; reduction of overdue balances (invoices and claims) in consultation with respective BU's, the Call Centre and the Deports, using an up-to-date Age Analysis, daily application and allocation of payments, processing and allocation of approved credit notes; daily credit risk assessment for escalation where the business is exposed with the daily management of suspended orders; 
• Customer Master Data integrity ie. correct and up-to-date is maintained as approved and aligned with business needs; adhoc projects as the need arises and interaction with all BU's.
•   Syspro highly advantageous as well as above-average Excel skills