About the position
Accounts Receivable Specialist | Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern CapeAn international enterprise is seeking a highly skilled, fluent German-speaking Accounts Receivable Specialist to join their global accounting division based in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth). Reporting directly to the Global Risk & Receivables Senior Manager, this crucial role manages the end-to-end financial health of customer portfolios, ensuring timely collections, seamless cross-border payment processing, and excellent international client relations.
Key Performance Areas:
- Billing & Invoicing Execution: Generate and distribute highly accurate, timely invoices to global corporate clients, ensuring total adherence to customized billing schedules and territorial trade terms.
- Payment Processing & Allocation: Process daily incoming customer payments, accurately post and apply transactions across accounting records, and resolve complex payment discrepancies.
- International Collections & Risk Reduction: Actively communicate with international clients regarding past-due accounts. Identify slow-paying accounts and recommend strategic collection actions to optimize corporate cash flow.
- Account Reconciliation: Perform regular, detailed ledger reconciliations for customer accounts, cross-referencing transaction records to maintain an error-free accounts receivable ledger.
- Process Automation: Actively identify operational bottlenecks, assisting management in streamlining the regional accounts receivable and credit tracking processes.
Minimum Requirements:- Education: A completed Matric / Grade 12 qualification; a relevant tertiary qualification in Accounting or Finance is an advantage.
- Language Skills: Fluent, native-level or near-native command of the German language (written and spoken) is a non-negotiable requirement (NB).
- Experience: Minimum of 2 to 3 years of experience directly within an Accounts Receivable, Collections, or Corporate Credit Control function.
- Technical Skills: Exceptional computer literacy, with practical experience operating advanced accounting packages and global ERP systems.
- Attributes: Strong numerical accuracy, excellent international business etiquette, high adaptability to diverse systems, and a proactive approach to issue resolution.
Position Details:- Location: Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape (Full-Time, Office-Based).
- Remuneration: Highly competitive, market-related cost-to-company structure.
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Desired Skills:
- Accounts Receivable Clerk
- Accounts Receivable Clerk
- Accounts Receivable Clerk
