[Job Vacancy] Credit Controller at Unilever Nigeria Plc

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Unilever Nigeria Plc – Welcome to Unilever, a global multinational and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company with products sold in over 190 countries and more than 2 billion consumers across the world who use our amazing products everyday!

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Credit Controller

Job ID: R-56866Location: LagosJob Type: Permanent Contract – Immediate HireCategory: Finance

Your Role

This permanent role is responsible for managing ekaterra’a credit and collections processes for Nigeria, reporting to the Credit Control Manager.
Following go live, this will transition to a BAU role of performing Credit Control activities within [country], ensuring that engagement with customers on credit matters is optimised for customer experience as well as managing ekaterra’s credit risk in line with the local and global policies and working capital performance, working closely with global O2C and operational teams, as well as GTM and Finance.

Your Key Tasks

Contribute to the development of a high quality, efficient, and effective credit control organization
Support the implementation of any local variations to global processes and policies covering billing, credit management and collections
Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure business and customer needs are being met
Meet all the operational and financial performance targets and obligations, including delivering on collection and credit management KPIs and SLAs
Handle escalations from Operational teams
Approve or reject blocked orders
Block and unblock customers
Negotiate payment plans
Provide reporting for the company accountant
Customer account reconciliations
Support credit insurance and factoring activities if applicable
Deliver on local and global credit risk policies and collections strategies.
Drive proactive customer communication to manage timely credit and collections management activities and improve ekaterra’s working capital position
Evaluate, create and maintain credit limits for the customers in the system.
Responsible for collecting debts from our company debtors

Skills and Experience

Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Business (preferably Finance, Accounting or Business)
At least 5 years business experience in Credit or Collections roles
Proactive and self-leading
Service oriented attitude
Able to adapt to changes quickly.
Familiar with SAP functionalities
Ability to work cross functionally
Excellent verbal and written communication skills

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