Credit Control Officer at TOS TV Network

TOS TV brings you daily news on business, politics, and development. TOS TV aims to become one of the world’s most trusted sources of informative, educational and entertaining news that provides a comprehensive range of high-quality inspirational programming and broadcasting. 

TOS TV Network is a fast-rising current affairs station and we want persons who can tell the African story that encourages business between Africans to join our team in the position below:

Job Title: Credit Control Officer

Location: Nigeria
Department: Finance & Accounts

Job Description

• Coordinate the debts of existing creditors and deciding whether to allow credit to a debtor
• Handle the collection of finances, the resolution of account queries, produce and send sales invoices and issue credit notes
• Notify debtors by letter, email, or telephone call of upcoming or outstanding invoices
• Negotiate payment plans and settlements with debtors, including fixing terms and conditions
• Set up the terms and conditions of a loan to be in line with the risk, amount and type of loan
• Resolve all issues raised internally nd externally around outstanding invoices
• Post and allocate daily receipts to accounting systems; run reports for senior staff
• Performing internal audits and resolving discrepancies
• Reply promptly to client questions and concerns received by voicemail or via written communication
• Working with legal team to initiate legal action against debtors who evade or refuse repayment ‘according to the terms and conditions
• Work closely with the Accountant to process irreconcilable debts, as in the case of bankruptcy, to be written off and archived
• Arrange for account statements to be forwarded to clients each month,’ updating records when necessary
• Establish and maintain regular communications with clients to facilitate periodic payments

Qualification

• Holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or Mathematics
• Ability to establish and maintain good client relationships, both internally and externally at all levels
• Strong communication skills, orally and verbally
• Understanding of the legal complexities of loans, payments, interest rates, etc
• Ability to reconcile complex accounts and have excellent attention to detail
• Prior experience with financial systems including invoicing
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products, and accounting software programs

Competencies:

• Deciding and initiating action: takes initiative and works und own direction;
• Ability to think critically
• Analysing numerical data and all other sources of information, to break them into component part, patterns and relationships; probes for further information or greater understanding of a problem; makes rational judgments from the available information and analysis; demonstrates an understanding of how one issue may be a part of a much larger system.
• Calm, confident manner to handle potentially uncomfortable conversations
• Ability to hold personal client information in the strictest confidentiality

Application Closing Date
14th August, 2020.