Credit Controller

Michael Page

Kuwait

Ref: HP350-4002

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Our client, one of the Leading Multinational Oil & Gas manufacturing and servicing groups, is looking to expand their finance team and is seeking an experienced Credit Controller.

Client Details

Our client is a principal joint energy solution provider that operates in the Nuclear, Aerospace, Oil & Gas, and Mining sectors across Middle East and Europe. They have a committed management and are now looking to further expand their finance function in Kuwait by hiring an experienced Credit Controller

Description

Reporting to the Financial Controller and working alongside the Finance Business Partner, the Credit Controller will be responsible to/for:

* Ability to review contract in detail to highlight the key milestones/commercials to the billing team
* Coordinating with the sales and operations team to ensure that the customer data base always reflects the correct level of credit limit and credit days
* Willing to visit customers at the stage of bidding to assess the credit worthiness of the customer
* Provide ad hoc reporting on AR outstanding and ageing analysis including DSO`s
* Able to do complex reconciliations - reconciling the statement of account with the balances provided by customers to ensure collectability of the receivables and confirmation of balances
* Ensuring that the accounting for the customer collections is robust whereby the receipts are matched to appropriate invoices, deductions for rebates, promotions, listing fees, etc. are matched to the agreement and accounted for against accruals or by appropriate debit to the profit and loss account
* Forecasts collections for the month in advance and deliver what was committed
* Prepares and maintains an excel file with the provision for bad debts based on collection experiences, conversation history and reconciliation of accounts with the customer

Job Offer

The successful candidate for this role will be offered a competitive monthly salary, all-inclusive of basic, housing and transport allowances. The role offers the autonomy to be a part of the core credit control team managing the regions cash collections for a multinational client.

Requirements

The successful candidate for this Credit Controller role will have

* A minimum of 3-5 years of relevant Credit Controlling/AR managing experience.
* Candidates with Professional Finance & Accounting Qualification will be preferred.
* Candidates should have been a part of leading companies handling a high-volume of invoices/cash collections
* Candidates who have worked with customers from UAE and Oman would be highly preferred
* Strong communication skills and should have a track-record of building/maintaining strong, long-lasting customer relationships

About the Company

Michael Page is one of the world's leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.

The Group has operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. In the Middle East we focus on the areas of:

Finance & Accounting Banking & Financial Services Procurement Property & Construction Engineering & Supply Chain Oil & Gas Technical and Engineering Human Resources Sales Marketing Technology Secretarial Executive Search Legal

The Group operates through 161 offices in 33 countries and employs over 5,000 employees worldwide.

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