Consumers everywhere are increasingly conscious of the quality of the food they eat. Puratos develops, produces, and distributes a unique range of ingredients for bakers, pastry-chefs and chocolatiers who demand the very highest quality.
Founded in Belgium in 1919, From humble beginnings to worldwide success, join us on our journey and discover our history and heritage.
Weve evolved from a father-and-son start-up in Belgium, to a global group with more than 9000 employees, 93 innovation centers, and more than 65 manufacturing operations across 81 countries to date. Its with great pride that we look back on this century of hard work, courage, and innovation. Thank you for making it all possible and lets continue building the next 100 years of shared success!
Our passion for innovation, pioneering spirit, and core value our communities, is what makes working at Puratos so magical.
CREDIT CONTROLLER
(Johannesburg, Longmeadow)
Position Overview
Effective management, analysis and problem solving of the Companys Based at Johannesburg to further strengthen our local Debtors Control team, we are currently seeking Credit Controller, reporting directly to the National Credit Manager, the successful candidate for this key function will be responsible for:
- Effective management, analysis and problem solving of the companys outstanding debt and the application of payments.
- Managing the debt of the business and ensuring that the debtor days outstanding are in line with the companys requirements.
- Verify validity of account discrepancies by obtaining and investigating information from sales, trade promotions and customers
- Resolve valid or authorised deductions by entering corrections to customer accounts
- Ensure timely payments of debts
- Respond to customer queries
- Dealing with internal queries about payments, ensuring customers pay on time
- Ensure that the service offering provided satisfies customers
- Meet the cash & debtor days targets set by the company
- Ensure that all transactions are compliant with the companys policies
- Adhere to and support the companys vision, mission and values without compromise or exception
- Provide ad-hoc reporting as and when requested by management
- Undertake account reconciliations as required
- Send out customers statements timeously
- Ensure monthly processing deadlines are met by working overtime as and when required
- Release orders timeously to prevent any delays in deliveries
- Support the General Manager on releasing orders after hours
- Fully responsible of maintaining the National Retail Debtors Book
- Matric (Grade 12) with Finance Qualification
- Strong in reconciliation
- Computer literacy: MS Office suite (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word), SharePoint and WMS (Johannesburg branch only)
- Communicate with staff at all levels; communicate with persons outside the organisation; negotiate with customers; establish and maintain interpersonal relationships.
- Written comprehension the ability to read and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Good communication skills - English is a prerequisite.
- Ability to read and write in English and any other language(s)
- Good personality, hardworking, teamwork, service orientated, creative, innovative, trustworthy, open to learn from feedback.
- Collaborating Effectively: Ability to think and act as one team in a spirit of trust and respect. Being open to different ideas. Building formal and informal relationship networks.
- Communicating Effectively: Developing and delivering communications in diverse modes that generate a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
- Driving Performance: Showing ambition and going the extra mile in achieving expected results. Driving sustainable operational excellence through diligent planning, prioritization, monitoring & effective use of resources.
- Improving Continuously: Being passionate about achieving high quality standards for oneself and the organization. Constantly looking for and taking advantage of improvement opportunities
- Managing Customer Needs: Being able and eager to find out what the internal or external customer wants and needs and to act accordingly. Making the life of the customer easier. Fostering a customer centric culture.
- Ethical, honest and utmost integrity - sharing Puratos values.
Puratos provides a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment that encourages our people to take initiatives and bring ideas that will contribute to the success of the company. Of course, Puratos offers a competitive package (salary, and market related benefits) but additionally, offers you a position that you can further develop and shape.
