Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
* Customer Management: Manage a diverse customer base covering the UK, Israel, and Ireland, including sectors such as aviation, military, and commercial.
* SAP & Business Knowledge: Investigate issues effecting types of customer orders and billings, Stock Transfer Orders (STOs), customer returns, credit notes, and cancellations. Manage maintenance service contracts.
* Debtor Ledger Management: Maintain and manage the debtor ledger, progress chase aged debts, clear queries, and secure payments. Communicate effectively with internal and external networks, including Finance, Order to Invoice, Operations, Sales, Program Managers, and Service teams.
* Invoice Submissions: Handle invoice submissions through customers’ portals.
* Credit Control Log: Maintain the credit control log and download weekly after bank reconciliations.
* Credit Management in SAP: Oversee the credit management process in SAP, including the "new customer" approval process, obtaining financial reports, credit limit application forms, and approval limits. Ensure accurate information is loaded into the solution manager by the Sales Department.
* Existing Customer Management: Amend credit limit applications following the approval process and input changes into SAP. Review trading history and conduct active credit limit reviews on the top customers.
* Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvements in the credit management process. Review customer credit limits based on recalculated sales documents, analysis reports, trading history, and new financial details.
* Cash Forecasts: Provide accurate cash forecasts based on customer knowledge and trading history. Maintain and provide actual cash updates.
* Credit Blocks: Review SAP credit blocks on customers to determine either credit limit increases or manual releases. Manage manual credit blocks due to non-payment
* Bank Accounts: Post all receipts in SAP, identifying the right GLs and reconcile bank accounts weekly.
* Agents Commission: Manage balance sheet accruals, issue agent statements and pay agents.
* Royalties: Manage balance sheet accruals, issue statements and related intercompany recharges and pay third parties.
* Visa Payments: Handle proforma/advance payments of nominal value.
* Month-End Duties: Monthly internal controls and entries, including bank reconciliations, accounts receivable reconciliations, royalty and commission journals and reconciliations, aged debtor analysis, and cash forecasts.
* Support: Assist Accounts Payable and other members of the Finance team during annual leave and periods of high volumes.
Qualifications
Technical Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
* Proven experience as a Credit Manager or in a similar role
* SAP experience is essentials
* Strong understanding of credit management principles, financial analysis, and risk assessment.
* Knowledge and experience of bookkeeping double entry and accruals concept
* Experience of preparing cash forecasts
* Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
* Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
* Able to respond in a timely way to stakeholders
* Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and credit management software. Excellent Excel knowledge
Additional Information
We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.
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