Billing and Account Receivable Officer at Cobranet Limited

Cobranet Limited was incorporated in 2003 and began its operations to provide the Nigerian Market with a reliable Internet Service and meet the requirements of the market, positioning itself as a leader in providing Internet Solutions and as a provider of choice.
The company was founded and is managed by a group of professionals whose collective business backgrounds include managing diversified business such as Banking/Industry/and Internet Services in Nigeria as well as other countries internationally. This rich experience in varied business gives Cobranet an edge as a professional solution provider. Cobranet ensures that it does not compromise on quality or performance and uses State of Art Technology and equipment to provide a reliable link to its subscribers. Importing bandwidth directly from Intelsat via satellite give Cobranet the biggest advantage since it is not dependent on any other bandwidth provider and ensures extremely high uptimes.Job Description

A Billing/Account Receivable Officer isresponsible for recovering money owed by customers to theorganization.
The credit function plays a vital rolein the finance department to ensure that invoices are paid on time to assistthe organization manage their cashflow.

Key Responsibilities
Reporting to the Credit control supervisor, theBilling/Account Receivable Officer role will perform a wide range ofduties and responsibilities. These may include,but are not limited to:

Chasingup overdue payments via telephone and email and visits
Invoicing
Resolvingcustomer Accounting queries and issues
Setting credit limits
reconciliation of payments to customer’s accounts
Solve problems regarding incorrect payments.
identifying clients that exceeded credit limits for disconnection.
Highlighting problem customers to senior management
WHT recovery and follow up.

Skills and Attributes
The more common skills and attributes that are most needed for this role may include:

Understanding of the end-to-end Accounts Receivable process
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
Ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including Management
Excellent organizational and time management skills
Ability to prioritize and multitask
High level of accuracy and attention to detail
Tenacity and ability to have difficult conversations
Willingness to escalate debt issues
Intermediate computer software skills, including Excel and Accounting packages.