Accounts Receivable Officer
Location | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
Date Posted | July 1, 2021 |
Category | Accounting Finance |
Job Type | Full-time |
Currency | ETB |
Description
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND DELIVERABLES
Account Receivables Management:
- Manage bad debt risk (monitor payment behavior of shops and update in text line to aid in effective risk management)
- Manage shops’ ledger in line with established KPI’s (reconciliation, reason coding)
- Ensure that each invoice processed in the shop’s account has been paid for and follow up on the debts
- Ensure all receivables are as per the HOS AR policy and approvals as per the approval matrix
- Support Finance processing activities (payout, payout advance receivables management, shop deposit reconciliation)
- Work hand-in-hand with payables officer to assure timely process of payouts and monthly payments to shops
- Assign and review risk categories and share marketing categorization of shops to Master Data managing officer based on the defined HOS criterion.
Policies, Controls and Process Improvement:
- Lead AR improvement initiatives for HOS
- Assist in development and implementation of HOS AR Policy.
- Support cash conversion process improvement initiatives
- Continuously look for process improvements to drive stakeholder satisfaction (i.e., shop owners) raise service efficiency
- Adhere to controls/compliance environment
Stakeholder Management:
- Manage relationship with sales persons, shop owners and, internally, with customer service team and marketing team
- Handle issue resolution (e.g., customer disputes) for AR related challenges encountered by shops and escalate to management when appropriate
- Being responsible for proper communication between HOS and shop owners. And support HOS by providing feedback from these interactions.
Reporting:
- Prepare Aged Debt Reports and provision for doubtful debts
- Give input to weekly working capital forecast
- Ensure that shops Sub Ledger accounts are reconciled in time for weekly reviews
- Preparing account receivables ageing reports (weekly and monthly reports)
Job Requirements
Applying Instructions
Interested and qualified applicants are invited to send their Application letter, CV and scanned documentations via email to gediongedion94@yahoo.com and within seven working days from the date of this announcement. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Note: Use "Accounts Receivable Officer" as the subject line of your email!