Manager: Finance - Credit Legal

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Manager: Finance - Credit Legal

Manage the relevant department’s collection targets on a daily/weekly/monthly basis.

Manage the department’s target with regards to normalized accounts and ensure that all normalized accounts are identified, activated and transferred back to credit control.

Oversee and control the top 40 legal accounts under his/her control (Including those of Supervisors) ensuring that relevant risks are identified and reported to Senior Manager: Legal Credit.

Prepare monthly handover files (New instructions) to attorneys/ pre-legal and bad debt call centre’s in accordance with prescribed format provided.

Prepare monthly debit order resubmission files in accordance with prescribed format provided.

Prepare bulk update requests as and when necessary in accordance with company policy.

Calculate/prepare and submit monthly incentives for department in accordance with company policy.

Manage, control and oversee the monthly legal handovers received from credit control. Ensure that systems are updated with the relevant process statuses.

Provide supervisors with the necessary support with regards to difficult debtors.

Oversee and control the accounts under his/her control ensuring that legal credit controllers work on all accounts at least every 14 days.

Check and authorize (within mandate) the relevant financial documents received from legal credit controllers on a daily basis.

Check all invoices for correctness and ensure that supervisor/s provide all relevant invoices for payment received from attorneys, pre-legal and bad debt call centre’s on a weekly basis and authorize for payment..

Manage, control and ensure that all payments received from attorneys, pre-legal and bad debt call centre’s are captured from suspense account onto the debtor’s accounts within 24 hours of receipt there off.

Age Analysis: Ensure that:

• There are no unallocated credit balances older than 30 days as at month end. (Invoices wrt damages to be raised on a daily basis),
• There are no debit balances older than 30 days on all relevant sub segments (Bad Debt).
• There is no active billing on legal/Bad debt accounts.

Any ad hoc requests as per General Manager: Legal Credit.

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Law

Languages

English