Credit Controller

Job Position: Credit Controller
Ref: 5063
Location: PE/Gqeberha
Salary: R25 000 - R35 000 TCTC

Start date: 1st October 2025

Qualifications / Requirements:
• Minimum of Matric
• Excellent communication skills with resilient and strong personality
• High proficiency in Pastel and Excel
• Numerical accuracy and strong attention to detail
• Must be tech savvy
• Self-motivated, solutions orientated, high work ethic and ability to work without guidance

Key Performance Areas:
• Manage and maintain an aged debtor analysis of all outstanding payments – approximately 320 debtors
• Daily updating of payments received on age analysis spreadsheet (shared with management)
• Chasing overdue debts
• Checking that receipts are allocated to correct accounts prior to being updated in cash book
• Working closely with Internal Sales Co-Ordinators to keep debtors within credit limits
• Journal entries
• Approval of credit applications and opening of accounts on Pastel
• Emailing monthly statements from Pastel
• Providing trade references
• Verifying tax invoices for SARS
• Reconciliation of accounts
• Sending final demands to debtors
• Handing over of bad debt accounts/writing off bad debt
• Providing information to attorneys and completing affidavits
• Updating monthly spreadsheets
• Managing trade credit insurance (Credit Guarantee) which entails applying for insurance cover/credit limit for new customers and maintaining/increasing cover for existing customers when necessary
• Weekly download and upload of debtor’s transactions to bank
• Emailing of Credit Guarantee annexures to bank to update their records
• Providing required documents for Debtor Finance Audit and liaising with bank auditor regarding any queries