Credit Controller Employment Opportunity – Appliance World Ltd

Job Title:    Credit Controller
Organisation: Appliance
World Ltd
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
About US:
Appliance World Ltd (the company) is one of the largest organizations
in Uganda dealing in consumer electronics (refrigerators, microwaves, audio
products, televisions, and washing machines), commercial air conditioning and
mechanical ventilation, mobile phones, computers/network monitors.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:  
  • The Credit Controller will be responsible
    for reviewing Credit Limits for all parties who receive goods and services
    on credit and present a report with recommendations to management. This
    should be done every two months.
  • Approving every LPO before it reaches the
    MD’s table for approval.
  • Keeping copies of original Purchase
    Orders, Invoices, Delivery Notes and Contracts where applicable.
  • Ensuring that all payments are paid within
    the stipulated credit period.
  • Setting weekly collection targets and
    reporting to the MD on actual versus target collections on a weekly basis
    in Excel format and also meeting him once a week. It is important that
    collections are at least 85% of the target in order to maintain a healthy
    cash flow.
  • Tasked with reconciling accounts for every
    single outstanding client in the system and ensuring that that the
    Company’s statement matches with the Creditor’s/Debtor’s statement. The
    complete exercise of reconciliation for all non-reconciled accounts should
    be complete within 3 months of joining. Thereafter, monthly balance
    confirmations should be done for each and every Creditor/Debtor and they
    should be shown to the MD.
  • Actively getting involved in collections
    i.e., visiting, phoning and writing to clients and collecting payment.
    Your role is not merely one of being on a desk but also involves daily
    visiting of clients.



  • Preparing reports showing details of
    Creditors/Debtors who are simply not paying despite the efforts put with
    all evidence of action you have taken to collect the money.
  • Instructing lawyers to write demand
    notices with permission of the MD for difficult clients.
  • Keeping excel files which clearly indicate
    payment statuses for Air Conditioning projects and sending updated sheets
    for each Air Conditioning project on weekly basis.
  • Ensuring that all clients on Air
    Conditioning Maintenance Contracts are invoiced in accordance with the
    maintenance contracts and sending reports to the MD every two weeks
    showing the status of invoices and payments.
  • Ensuring that invoices are raised for Air
    Conditioning clients once a ‘Certificate’ is issued. Weekly reports on the
    invoices issued/not issued must be sent to the MD.
  • Holding weekly debt collection meetings
    and sending the minutes and collection schedule to the MD showing which
    amount is to be collected and the person whom you have delegated to
    collect on your behalf.
  • In charge of checking our systems daily
    and the manual documents at the Kibira Road branch for any delivery notes
    which have not been invoiced and invoicing these daily.
  • Going through the ‘Sales Bills Pending’
    and getting all items and services invoiced whilst ensuring that all supporting
    documentation is present and attached.
  • Tasked with ensuring that credit notes are
    issued in time. This should be done and complete within 3 months of
    joining for historical clients. And on a day to day basis as and when it
    happens. You need to forward a report to the MD of the credit notes raised
    for ‘that week’ on a weekly basis, even if NO credit notes have been
    issued.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience
:
The ideal candidate should have qualifications and experience to
perform the aforementioned tasks. 
Good working knowledge of tally is mandatory
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates are encouraged to send
their updated CVs via email to septemberjobs@applianceworld.co.ug. Call or
Whatsapp 0756 817062 for any inquiries.
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