Senior Accountant/team lead - credit control
INCHCAPE SHIPPING SERVICES (
Total years of experience :13 years, 8 Months
Credit control.
* Handling entire Accounts receivables (locals & overseas) & preparing financial reports including
monthly and annual accounts related to AR activities. Handling team receivables.
* Experienced in handing credit control team & also engaged in team training activities &
assistances.
* Experienced in handling accounts payable, invoices posting, job closing, petty cash
management, local vendor payments, and voucher preparation & accounts reconciliations.
* Conduct and coordinate company’s monthly and year-end closings & monitoring monthly
inventory controls.
* Assisting clients with shipping related queries & meeting their requirements.
* Reviewing internal controls and watches out for financial imbalances.
* Analyzing & follow up on the debtors ageing and thereon highlighting the issues concerned with
payment to the finance controller.
* Achieving the targets set by the finance controller on collection of payment on monthly basis.
* Following up on regular contact with clients on payments, Identifying accounts that need special
attention & thereby reporting to management for further actions.
* Handling disputed accounts and negotiating payments in co-ordination with the management.
* Checking credit records on databases and maintaining and updating these databases on a
regular basis & obtain sufficient information to assess the creditworthiness of new and existing
customers.
* Preparation of monthly management reports (Forecasting/critical debtors/suppliers).
* Perform audit and consulting engagements individually and as part of a team.
* Handled the complete accounting cycle, including opening, posting entries and closing of
accounts and preparation of various accounting reports.
* Handled tasks related to payment collections, monitoring the BRS & resolving payment related
queries both overseas & domestic.
* Managed Short term planning, including daily operation issues solving.
* Preparation and execution of invoices & credit notes.
* Responsible to monitor the critical accounts & accounts exceeding the credit limits,
* Responsible to maintain good record of all documentation including inventory, Ledger.
* Preparation of consolidated reports, follow up on intercompany accounts.
* Performing tests of internal controls carried out every six months.
Achievements:
* Awarded as the best performer in the year 2009/2010/2011 in the credit control team for
collecting the maximum payments and resolving the old pending issues.
* Formulating & implementing the new invoicing & credit procedures to minimize the invoicing
errors.
Independently managing the entire credit control department (i.e., Debtor follow-ups, posting
entries, management reporting & client meeting, and team management).
* Experienced in handling accounts payables(local vendors payments, agency accounts, bank
reconciliations, month end closing, payables reporting)
* Sorting out the payment related issues of the client and highlighting the issues with regards to
payment.
* Coordination with the operations departments in sorting out the operational issues such as
documentation, monitoring the invoicing procedures and to ensure the invoices reaches the
client on time with proper acknowledgements.
* Opening new client account with all proper documentations such as credit applications, trade
license copy.
* Handling job closings, monitoring the provisions & cost and report thereon to the finance
manager.
* Handling overseas clients’ accounts, reconciliations, coordination & follow-ups and to forward
the revised statement of accounts to client on periodic basis.
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