Job reference n°: NGA0577
Sector: Services - Nigeria - Western Africa
Function: Accounting & finance
Offers updated on 11/05/2011
Our client
Adexen Recruitment Agency is mandated by a leading Security Company. The Company is looking for a Credit and Cost Controller for its activites.
Job description
The credit and cost controller position is accountable for:
The entire credit granting process, including the consistent application of a credit policy, periodic credit reviews of existing customers and assessment of the creditworthiness of potential customers, with the goal of optimizing the mix of company sales and bad debt losses.
The ongoing analysis of process constraints, target costing projects, margin analysis, and tracing costs back to underlying activities.
He must also construct and monitor those cost-effective data accumulation systems needed to provide an appropriate level of costing information to management.
Responsibilities
Maintain a department organizational structure sufficient to meet all goals and objectives
Properly motivate the credit and collections staff
Measure department performance with appropriate metrics
Provide for ongoing training of the credit staff
Manage relations with collection agencies, credit reporting agencies, sales department
Credit Operations
Maintain the corporate credit policy
Recommend changes in the credit policy to senior management
Create a credit scoring model
Manage customer credit files
Monitor the credit granting and updating process
Accept or reject the staff's credit recommendations
Personally investigate the largest customer credit applications
Personally visit the largest customers to establish relations
Monitor periodic credit reviews
Monitor deductions being taken by customers
Manage the application of late fees
Manage the corporate financing program
Data Collection
Construct data accumulation systems for a cost accounting system
Create and review the controls needed for data accumulation and reporting systems
Inventory / Operations; Coordinate physical inventory counts
Investigate cycle counting variances and resolve issues
Update standard costs of profit centre’s
Review standard and actual costs for inaccuracies
Validate the cost of sales as part of the month-end close
Accumulate and apply overhead costs as required by generally accepted accounting principles to profit centre’s
Ensure procurement at minimum cost
Analysis
Conduct ongoing process constraint analyses
Report on breakeven points by product / department / regions
Report on margins by product and department / regions
Report on periodic variances and their causes, focusing in particular on spending variances
Analyze capital budgeting requests
Perform cost accumulation tasks as a member of the target costing group
Qualifications et experience
University Degree or equivalent
Professional qualification -ACCA, ACA, COST MGT etc
Minimum of 12years post qualification experience
Oral & Written Communication Skills / Negotiating & Leadership Skills
Operational planning, Implementation and Control
Financial Analysis and interpretation
Budgeting / Management Accounting
IT System skill
Business Acumen
What is on offer
Attractive package
If your experience, personal characteristics and qualifications meet the position specifications and your personal objectives are to seek such a challenge, then we would like to hear from you with details of your current earnings, up to date CV and explanation as to why your achievements to date fit you for consideration.
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