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Providing support across the South African Tax business, you will play a key role in managing and optimizing working capital processes using various reports issued on a daily, weekly, monthly basis in conjunction with existing processes.
Candidates should possess experience, knowledge, and skills that allow them to execute the following responsibilities:
- Contributing to continuous improvement by sharing knowledge and providing support to other team members.
- Embedding data analytics capability by coaching the adoption and usage of working capital reporting.
Essential Functions of the Job:
- Billings: Monitoring and managing inventory to ensure billing is done on time.
- Cash collections: Monitoring and managing AR to ensure cash is collected on time.
- Revenue days: Improve revenue days by monitoring and managing inventory and debt collection effectively.
- Reconciliations: Perform reconciliations on a daily, weekly, monthly basis to ensure accuracy of inventory and AR.
- Forecasts: Generate and manage billing and cash collection forecasts.
Analytical/Decision Making Responsibilities:
- Resolve issues with tenacity and determination.
- Handle multiple projects simultaneously with flexibility.
- Work through complex technical issues and understand client needs.
- Identify and investigate issues for continuous improvements.
- Act as a trusted business advisor, providing clear points of view and challenging existing processes.
Supervision Responsibilities:
- Supervision of the engagements assistant team on a daily basis.
Knowledge and Skills Requirements:
- Professional approach with a strong understanding of credit control.
- Ability to build strong internal Partner-level relationships and external relationships with client contacts responsible for credit control.
- Problem-solving skills and ability to provide credible solutions.
- Confidence to challenge where appropriate.
- Strong analytical and numeracy skills with attention to detail.
- Effective time management and ability to balance multiple priorities.
- Eagerness to learn quickly, be proactive, and share knowledge.
- Ability to translate technical terms into business-relevant language.
- Excellent communication skills for delivering presentations, training, and knowledge sharing.
- Ability to deliver challenging messages professionally and drive mutual understanding.
- Demonstrate the ability to become an effective change advocate.
- Proficient in MS Excel.
- Ability and flexibility to work in a virtual environment across multiple time zones.
Job Requirements:
- Relevant bachelor’s degree in law and or business administration, or related field is preferrable.
Experience:
- 10+ years of experience in credit control, debt collection and inventory management.