Credit Controller

PepsiCo Inc.; Bellville; On-site; ZAR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

PepsiCo Inc. in Bellville seeks a Credit Controller to enhance cash flow, minimize bad debts, and manage on-time payments from debtors while maintaining outstanding balances within targets. The role covers monthly claims analysis, reporting, and customer relationship management.

Responsibilities include data accuracy, adherence to SOPs and POPI, and inter-department collaboration to ensure timely payments and compliant debtor information handling.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of financial and management accounting principles.
• Proven decision making and problem solving abilities.
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Good communication and business acumen.
• Attention to detail and accuracy in bookkeeping.
• FMCG industry knowledge not required here but relevant.

Responsibilities

• Capturing payments and reconciling debtors' accounts.
• Managing and processing customer claims, including transport and stock-related claims.
• Maintaining master data accuracy and POPI-compliant handling of debtor information.
• Maintaining good relationships with internal and external customers.
• Ensuring approved credit terms and limits are not exceeded.
• Bookkeeping: timely clearing of accounts and sending statements to avoid nonpayment or late payments.
• Reporting: 30, 60, 90, 120 days and related action plans; POD and price discrepancy reports.
• Advising superiors of potential bad debts and coordinating necessary actions.
• Inter-department communication with Sales Admin, Sales, PFLS, etc.

Skills

Decision Making

Problem Solving

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Negotiation Skills

Persuasion

Business Acumen

Attention to Detail

Industry Knowledge

Tools

SAP

Job description

Overview

To enhance the company’s cash flow and minimize the risk of bad debts. The role is responsible for all the directs activities of the credit control function, which includes proactively managing and collecting debts of on time debtors payments from company debtors. Ensuring both on time collection and maintenance of outstanding debts within agreed targets. Monthly claims management and analysis, by resolving claims with both internal and external customers. Reporting and customer relationship management is also a major requirement of this position.

Responsibilities

• Capturing of payments and accurate reconciliation of debtor’s accounts
• Claims management - control and processing of all claims deducted by customer in form of transport claims, sallies, ensuring that ad hoc claims are processed by the sales admin team and that the stock related claims such as returns and damages is processed on time by the responsible unit.
• Master Data management – ensuring that the master data is 100% correct and compliant to the SOP. Also ensuring the safe and correct handling of debtor’s information, to be in line with the POPI act.
• Maintaining good customer relationships both internally and externally
• Ensuring that the approved credit terms and limits are not exceeded
• Bookkeeping – Ensuring accurate clearing of accounts, timeously submitting of statements to avoid nonpayment or late payments
• Reporting – 30, 60, 90, 120 days reporting and action plans. POD Control reporting, Price Discrepancy report, Cash Inflow and Settlement discount report
• Advising superiors of potential bad debts in order to take necessary action steps
• Inter department communication – Sales Admin, Sales, PFLS, etc.

Qualifications

• Computer skills incl SAP
• Decision Making & Problem solving
• Knowledge of Financial & Management Accounting
• FMCG Industry knowledge
• Interpersonal & Relationship building Skills
• Persuasion, Influence and Negotiation skills
• Communication skills
• Good business acumen
• Attention to detail