Responsible for managing and collecting outstanding receivables from customers, ensuring timely collections while maintaining professional customer relationships. The role requires regular customer follow-up, field visits, strong coordination with Sales teams, Strong communication skills to prioritize accounts based on overdue value, payment history, customer importance, and risk.
Key Responsibilities
- Follow up with customers through phone calls, emails, and field visits to ensure timely payment of outstanding invoices.
- Maintain regular follow-up on overdue and high-value receivables, with stronger escalation for customers presenting higher collection risk.
- Use commercial judgment to determine which customers require aggressive follow-up, escalation, negotiation, or management intervention.
- Conduct regular customer visits across Dubai and the Northern Emirates for payment collection, account discussions, and resolution of outstanding issues.
- Maintain strong professional relationships with customers.
- Communicate clearly and professionally with customers regarding invoices, statements of accounts, payment commitments, disputes and overdue balances.
- Obtain firm and realistic payment commitments, document them accurately, and ensure follow-up until payment is received.
- Identify reasons for delayed payments and follow up internally to resolve them.
- Keep Sales teams updated on pending overdue, customer commitments, disputes and collection risks.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date collection remarks and customer-wise follow-up records.
- Prepare Daily reports and collection trackers showing overdue balances, payment commitments, follow-up status and collection progress.
- Review customer account statements and identify unallocated payments, credit notes, disputed invoices and reconciliation differences that may delay collection.
- Provide regular feedback to management regarding customer payment behavior, emerging collection risks and market/customer issues and flagging the high risk customers.
- Adhere to company credit-control policies, approved customer payment terms and escalation procedures.
- Strong written and oral Communication Skills
- Ability to write clear, professional collection emails and follow-up messages.
- Strong ability to assess customer payment behavior and collection risk.
- Problem Solving for all pending dues
- Basic excel Skills to create reports
- Driving License is must
- Ability to efficiently plan daily customer visits based on priority and location.
Experience & Qualifications
- Experience in B2B customer collections (Healthcare field is a plus)
Location: UAE – Mainly Dubai & Northern Emirates