Billing & Receivables Coordinator (South Africa) at Nova Pioneer

ABOUT YOUR ROLE:

Key responsibilities for the role include:

Billing and receipts

• Generate accurate annual, termly monthly tuition and other fees invoices for all revenue streams
• Issuing of credit notes
• Ensure generation of customer receipts and provision of receipts to customers on a daily basis
• Escalation and resolution of any missing receipts with relevant colleagues
• Resolving of receipts with missing billing with relevant colleagues

Reconciliations and general ledger management

• Perform daily reconciliation and allocation of all receipts from the previous day across all campuses
• Perform reconciliations of individual student accounts
• Perform bank reconciliations
• Perform general ledger entries related to billing, receipts, bad debts and bad debt provisions

Bookkeeping

• Cross-skilling with Accounting team members to assist with broader finance functions including reconciliations and general ledger activities
• Contribute to the month-end and year-end reporting and audit processes

Reporting

• Producing monthly debtors age analysis, bad debts, bad debt provision and associated reports analysing the billing of Nova Pioneer versus collections
• Produce reports at a detailed level explaining variances between budgeted and actual revenue, collections and bad debts
• Track and update required databases and dashboards

Budgeting

• Assist in preparing annual and revised revenue budgets

Business control environment

• Recommend & implement internal controls across areas of responsibility to ensure accuracy and timely delivery of responsibilities

General

• Contribute to the ongoing improvement of Nova Pioneer by suggesting and implementing measures that increase productivity, reduce costs and raise customer service levels
• Maintain effective and productive working relationship with the collections department and contribute to activities to improve interaction and collaboration with the collections department
• Achieve and maintain proficiency with the system and tools required to perform duties
• Other duties as assigned by the billing team leader which may include (but not limited to) assisting with collections and parent gating during peak times.

ABOUT YOU:

Skills and Qualifications required:

• Bachelor's degree in finance or commerce is preferable
• At least 2 years experience in finance, audit, or similar role
• Highly motivated self-starter with a bias for action and teamwork, comfortable working in a startup environment
• Outstanding organization, project management, problem-solving, and communication skills
• You have a passion for education and Nova Pioneer's vision of transforming schooling across the African continent

HOW TO APPLY

Does working at Nova Pioneer excite you? If so, then apply now!