National Credit Manager
- Western Cape
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Opportunity to lead and shape the national credit strategy of a leading specialist
- Play a key role in safeguarding financial health through credit risk control, working closely with internal stakeholders and customers
- Be part of a company that operates across Africa and globally, providing a professional yet purpose-driven environment
- Control opening of new customer accounts
- Assess creditworthiness of new applications
- Recommend and implement credit limits
- Review and apply credit policies
- Conduct periodic credit reviews
- Monitor account statuses continuously
- Authorise journal entries submitted by credit controllers
- Review account reconciliations regularly
- Enforce supply restrictions for overdue accounts
- Visit key/problematic accounts to resolve issues
- Liaise with customers and regional teams to collect overdue payments
- Accompany sales reps and managers on client visits
- Manage handovers to legal for collections
- Handle legal correspondence for liquidations and bad debts
- Work to minimise bad debt exposure
- Submit bad debt provision and year-end write-off list to Financial Director
- Proven experience in credit management
- Strong understanding of credit risk principles and collection processes
- Ability to manage legal processes relating to bad debt
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills
- Attention to detail and ability to enforce policy
- Experience leading and developing credit control teams
- Key leadership role within a niche, high-impact industry
- Strong national and global presence
- Opportunity to influence strategic credit practices
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