Cash Collectors at SAP Nigeria

SAP Nigeria - As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries innovate through simplification. From the back office to the boardroom, warehouse to storefront, on premise to cloud, desktop to mobile device - SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Cash Collector

Requisition ID: 99765
Location: Maitama, Abuja
Work Area: Finance
Expected Travel: 0 - 10%
Career Status: Professional
Employment Type: Limited Full Time

Role Descriptions

• The Cash Collections Organization resumes ownership of the company's trade receivables. The focus is reduction of DSO and improvement of cash-flow by driving timely settlement from customers using standardized processes and tools.
• The organization will engage with other relevant departments within the company to resolve disputes and inform about necessary impairments. It provides timely and relevant reporting and supports projects.
• The Cash Collector is responsible for the A/R functions of the relevant legal entity or Region. He/she overlooks the collection process and provides guidance and support.
• He/she interacts with all levels of senior management, ensuring appropriate degree of awareness about potential risks to SAP. While working across standard collections tasks on a defined customer portfolio, he/she will assume Responsibility for additional tasks.

Expectations and Tasks
The main tasks are:

• Proactive contact to customers, set up good relationship with internal stakeholders
• Proactively call customers to reassure the time of invoice payment.
• Handle escalations on open invoices
• Perform monitoring and collection of receivables
• Manage open items incl. overdue receivables
• Investigate billing discrepancies and respond to external queries
• Business administration
• Support ad-hoc queries and contributes to projects
• Contact for external and internal auditors
• Fulfillment of pre-set targets
• Follow SAP processes and use application tools available in ISP
• very important in this role is interaction and communication with other team members and managers in an international environment, and as such require advanced communication and language skill

Work Experience:

• Working experience within a finance related field required (5-10 years)
• Fluent written and spoken English language skills
• Local language skills

Education and Qualification / Skills and Competencies

• Excellent "Customer Focus" approach
• Independent communication and negotiation with client
• Communication skills (verbally and written)
• Must be a well-organized and self-starter with "can do" attitude
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to work in an international environment
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong will to deliver excellent quality
• Willingness to learn and improve
• Team spirit contribution
• Knowledge of SAP FI module

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: This position is open for 6 months, but maybe with possibility to extend for a full-time role (currently under discussion).