Collector

Collector

Cote d'Ivoire
Abidjan
Local
Finance/Accounting
Last application date: 28/11/2019

The Republic of Côte d’Ivoire is located in Western Africa, bordering on the south by the Atlantic Ocean. The population is estimated at 20 million with the capital city residing in Abidjan. The country is regarded as having a high level of religious freedom and diversity, with the predominant religion being Christianity, Muslim and animist.

Côte d’Ivoire boast lots of agricultural products like cocoa (1st worldwide producer), coffee, cotton, rubber, oil palm, cashew, and diverse natural resources natural gas, diamond, gold, timber, iron, etc. Côte d’Ivoire forms part of the Central Bank of West African States (of which it is the dominant economy), the West African Economic and Monetary Union and Economic Union of Central Africa (UEMOA) and the Organisation for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA).

The Côte d’Ivoire Cluster, which includes offices in Côte d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Burkina Faso is a fast changing and dynamic collection of markets. With its head office in Abidjan, Maersk Liner business has established a strong and expanding presence in the area with an expectation for continued growth and development in the future.

Maersk is looking to hire a Collector to join our team in Abidjan.

We offer
An exciting career opportunity in an international, challenging business setting, characterized by high pace and diversity.

You will focus on creating valuable relations with stakeholders, customers and work with highly-professional teams in an environment where you will be valued, recognized and well-rewarded with exciting possibilities for personal and professional development.

Key responsibilities
• Ensuring proper handling of dunning procedures (send out dunning letters and follow-up through phone calls)
• Ensuring customers are contacted/visited on regular basis
• Following-up of all noncredit customers when outstanding occur and address rout courses
• Ensuring that credit policy is strictly followed for all customers
• Ensuring FRC SOPs are followed in all departments
• Meeting all targets and deadlines
• Unapplied follow up for assigned customers.
• Ensuring that disputed invoices are followed up and taken off dispute within 7 days except when under litigation and abandoned cargo
• Coordinating with Freight Cashier on payment update
• coordinating new tasks and actions with Cluster Collections Lead
• Reporting recurrent errors to Process excellence
• Coordinate with GSC for daily bank reconciliation
• Other tasks may be assigned as deemed relevant.

We are looking for
• Bachelor Degree
• 2+ years of Accounts Receivable Experience
• Fluent in French and Intermediate level of English
• Effective communication and strong Interpersonal Skills
• Ability to work under pressure
• Analytical thinking
• Negotiation
• Customer Focus
• Microsoft Office Suit