Senior Accountant-Credit Control (Internal / External )

Senior Accountant-Credit Control (Internal / External )

We are seeking a Senior Accountant to manage credit control and ensure effective debt management for our telecommunications company. The ideal candidate will maintain a healthy debt portfolio, optimize returns on investments, and contribute to customer retention.

Responsibilities

• Enhanced & increased cash collection against revenue of above 100% month on month. 

•    Continuous ledger collection on other buckets collection as guided by the collection matrix. 

•    Ensure contained debt spill over monthly with maximum of 1% per age bucket 

•    Monthly Engagement with Technical billing on roaming rates system updates to enhance billing accuracy and drive demand reduction on billing disputes 

•    Full reconciliation & customer engagement on overdue accounts

•    Timely Receipting of EFTs & withholding taxes & allocation of credits to ensure clean ledger and reconciled customer accounts. 

•    Auto-Audit review of the withholding tax portfolio 

•    Implement right first time on business processes. 

•    Proactive resolve and closure of customer queries & 

•    Improved customer satisfaction and therefore assured churn reduction. 

•    Ensure that the collection plan only affects the unpaid accounts.

•    Daily review of the consumption reports daily and bar customers were necessary. 

•    Follow up reconnection after payment to improve on customer satisfaction, rapport, and work with others more effectively 

• Build and maintains strong relationships and networks 

Operational Excellence 

• Targets effort and resources on high-value, high impact activity 
• Focuses on achieving maximum performance and continuous improvement 
• Thinks about processes and problems cross-functionally and end-to-end 
• Use knowledge of products, technology, processes, systems and policy to solve problems 

Creativity and Innovation 

• Customer visits to push for payment and offer payment plan where acceptable. 
• Prepare and recommend accounts to be written off or provided for. 
• Offer alternative account types e.g. Auto bar with a controlled balance to ensure customer retention while still collecting the outstanding amounts. 
• Management of Credit Note issuance 
• Raise credit notes to all queries received on assigned accounts. Ensure the credit notes have been approved and posted. 
• Demonstrate and achieve Safaricom values and behaviors within the team 
• Ensure participation of projects and its completion within the set timelines. To continually participate in postpaid stakeholders training and process reviews
• Finds creative ways to exploit opportunities and solve problems 

Business Know how 

• Uses data and research to make decisions that are competitively and financially robust 
• Balances current and future needs 
• Thinks and acts like an owner of the business   
• Acts in line with legal, regulatory, professional and 
• ethical standards 

Working with Change 

• Responds flexibly to changing situations  
• Manages the business and people aspects of change 
• to drive performance 

Project and program Management 

• Defines scope and 
• deliverables in terms of time, cost, quality and business benefit   
• Schedules activity and identifies resource needs, dependencies and synergies 
• Daily review of the periodic high balance reports and   bars where necessary 
• Customer visits to push for payment and offer payment plan where acceptable Prepare and recommend accounts to given over to collection agencies 
• Reconciliation of accounts monthly to ensure that payments have been allocated correctly and the customers’ statement reflects only unpaid items done by the 5th of every month 
• Follow up on the temporary deactivated accounts by ensuring reminder letters go out by documented milestones. 
• To analyze and document accounts with credit balances. 
• Monitor and ensure customers on payment plan adhere to the plan proposals 
• All pending queries are attended to and customers informed within agreed SLA to ensure that collectable amounts are paid in time. 
• Ensure customers are added to the collection plan monthly. 
• Ensure that all bills are dispatched within defined timeframes. 
• Ensure all issues affecting Billing from preceding periods have been logged in the incidence folder for follow-up.  Ensure that the incidents have been addressed before Bill ran. This will be done by the 20th of each month in preparation for the next Pre-Bill review
• Send reminder letters to those customers who have not paid. 
• Accounts in assigned ledger are fully reconciled. 
• Management of disconnections and ensuring reduction of overdue amounts on the above accounts

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience: 

Business Competencies 

Working with Others 

• Consciously takes steps to make the most of every conversation/ interaction 
• Identifies people’s needs, interests and motives to be able to influence the decisions they make 
• Communicates simply to excite and engage people 
• Pro-actively adapts own style and approach to build

Accounting 

• Prepares, analyses and summarizes financial data to support business operations and delivery statutory information 
• Ensures the integrity of processes and systems to record and authorize transactions in compliance with Safaricom accounting 
• policies and regulations 

Reporting 

• Delivering timely and accurate reports to satisfy statutory and business requirements   
• Identifies key performance and variances, and provides recommendations 
• Treasury 
• Development and advice on funding strategies for the business 

Tax 

• Apply appropriate treasury processes to maintain financial liquidity 
• Delivers filings/reports to satisfy statutory and business requirements Combines expertise and commercial awareness to deliver value added solutions 

Functional Competencies 

Planning and Control 

• Analyses performance trends to determine the health of the business 
• Steers business performance by using strategy and external data to help set goals   
• Translate strategies into actionable plans that add value via process and operational improvements 
• Maintains controls within Financial Systems through setup control and master data management 
• Daily review of the periodic high balance reports and bars where necessary 
• Customer visits to push for payment and offer payment plan where acceptable Prepare and recommend accounts to given over to collection agencies 
• Reconciliation of accounts monthly to ensure that payments have been allocated correctly and the customers’ statement reflects only unpaid items done by the 5th of every month 
• Follow up on the temporary deactivated accounts by ensuring reminder letters go out by documented milestones. 
• To analyze and document accounts with credit balances. 
• Monitor and ensure customers on payment plan adhere to the plan proposals 
• All pending queries are attended to and customers informed within agreed SLA to ensure that collectable amounts are paid in time. 
• Ensure customers are added to the collection plan monthly. 
• Ensure that all bills are dispatched within defined timeframes. 
• Ensure all issues affecting Billing from preceding periods have been logged in the incidence folder for follow-up.  Ensure that the incidents have been addressed before Bill ran. This will be done by the 20th of each month in preparation for the next Pre-Bill review. 

Key performance indicators 

• Key understanding of the Dynamic of the Financial sector to guide the Business units in customer management and risk reduction 

• To achieve incremental collection month after month. A monthly collection of 100% against revenue of the private ledger. 

• Reduce the risk of bad debt by ensuring that we do not have more than 1% of debt spilling over to the next bracket. 
  
  • To ensure the effective execution of defined milestones, while aligning with departmental objectives of improved collections. Ensure 100% adherence to milestone schedules and all milestones are executed on time: 
  • Ensure all adjustments e.g., credit notes are posted by the 25th of every month. 
  • Ensure that each collection plan affects only unpaid accounts by ensuring that all remittances from the customers have been forwarded on time 
  • Enforcing strict daily high usage monitoring for both Local and Roaming Customers 
  • Ensure all payments received are allocated and follow up remittances to be provided by the customers within the month of payment receipt. 
  • Weekly review of unallocated payments in the ledger 
  • Achieve cash allocation of 95% current: 100% on 30-90 days & 5% reduction on over 90 days per month on total

Qualifications

• Accounting or related Finance bachelor’s degree from a recognized university.  ACCA will be an added advantage. 
•  3-4 years’ experience in a Credit Control administrative and/ or account management role in debt management experience in a well-run company working with multiple business partners  
• Proven experience & good understanding of debt 
• acquisition and management and Experience in building complex financial models to evaluate various financial plans. 
• Experience in Oracle or any other ERP 
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