Legal Credit Controller - Ekurhuleni (East Rand) at Unique Personnel

Job Description    

• The main scope for the position is managing the company's debtors, ensuring timely payments, and maintaining customer relationships and to administer the legal and credit insurance activities of company.

The key tasks & responsibilities for this position

• Provide pins for up to R500 000.00
• Provide pins for cash sales and COD government accounts, inter-branch and inter-company and normal debtors
• Deal with debtors (excluding export customers)
• Provide stats for the whole department
• Deal with Branch Managers and Credit Controllers
• Transfer cover between branches
• Handles company claims payments and reconcile bank statements monthly
• Apply for new policies
• Give annexure number
• Give file number for customer and group
• Must notify company within 3 months of cause of loss before the claim is rejected
• Lodge all claims and notify company
• Declarations must go to company before the 20th of the month
• company to invoice company based on what is declared per branch, per month and split payments amongst branches
• Terminate policies
• Claim costs from company
• Pay all attorneys for company branches
• Send a schedule to the branches with the attorney’s charges
• Reconcile bank statements – all collections done by attorneys and direct payments from debtors
• Type instruction to attorney’s
• Sort out payment queries with attorneys
• Assist the warehouse supervisor with other duties that is fair and reasonable
• Assist other staff and management in the execution of their duties that is fair and reasonable
• Assist with stock taking
• Assist with payment allocation for debtors
• Review debtors and see if there are any duplications that need to be reversed
• Be a backup for the creditors’s supervisor

Inherent Requirements    
The key qualifications and experience for this position would be:

• A valid Grade 12 certificate is a MUST
• A National Diploma (NQF6) in Accounting or equivelant
• Minimum of 5 years legal  credit control experience
• A good understanding of the National Credit Act
• Proficient in excel
• Knowledge of the K8 system would be advantageous