About the Role

Reporting to the Branch Manager, the Finance Assistant will be responsible for Branch credit reports, debtor’s reconciliation, receipting, banking, and petty cash management

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in implementation of the company’s credit control policy;
• Sending monthly commission and debtor’s statements and resolve incoming queries on outstanding accounts from intermediaries;
• Apply reminders on account to ensure debts are paid in a timely manner and full follow through by relevant intermediaries;
• Referring of uncollected debts to debt collection agencies, managing legal action and reference to the Credit Reference Bureau (CRB);
• Drive collection of premiums debited on a monthly basis;
• Tracing and pursuing long outstanding debtors and where possible, assess capacity to settle debts;
• Follow up bounced cheques and contacts the clients for replacements as and when it arises and provides a monthly report;
• Check remittances (RTGS, EFT, IPFs) and facilitate receipting within 24 hours and monitor daily receipting and banking of all premiums received;
• Visit and call intermediaries for follow up on collections and reconciliations to provide a weekly report.

Who We’re Looking For

Qualifications

• Bachelors’ Degree in a related field
• Progress in CPA, ACCA, or Certificate in credit control management
• Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience

• Participate in implementation of the company’s credit control policy;
• Sending monthly commission and debtor’s statements and resolve incoming queries on outstanding accounts from intermediaries;
• Apply reminders on account to ensure debts are paid in a timely manner and full follow through by relevant intermediaries;
• Referring of uncollected debts to debt collection agencies, managing legal action and reference to the Credit Reference Bureau (CRB);
• Drive collection of premiums debited on a monthly basis;
• Tracing and pursuing long outstanding debtors and where possible, assess capacity to settle debts;
• Follow up bounced cheques and contacts the clients for replacements as and when it arises and provides a monthly report;
• Check remittances (RTGS, EFT, IPFs) and facilitate receipting within 24 hours and monitor daily receipting and banking of all premiums received;
• Visit and call intermediaries for follow up on collections and reconciliations to provide a weekly report.

• Credit control
• Debtor reconciliation
• Receipting
• Banking
• Petty cash management
• Commission statements
• Query resolution
• Debt collection
• Premium collection
• Cheque follow-up
• Remittance checking
• Intermediary follow-up

• Bachelors’ Degree in a related field
• Progress in CPA, ACCA, or Certificate in credit control management