Job Summary

• Accountable for queries about billing issues or requests for information from other departments – this could include tasks such as calls from sales representatives who may have problems with a customer not having been billed yet for products supplied.

Job Responsibilities

• Calculating, recording, inputting, or processing financial data.
• Preparing customer invoices based on accounting procedures.
• Researching and investigating discrepancies in invoices to determine the accuracy of charges.
• Matching payments to invoice numbers or sales orders.
• Handling customer inquiries regarding billing issues.
• Managing an Accounts Receivable ledger and Accounts Receivable files
• Submitting daily reports to management on accounts receivable operations.
• Maintaining customer accounts.
• Working with a billing system generating invoices.
• Collecting payments.
• Posting receipts in a timely manner.
• Securing revenue.
• Applying fair credit practices.
• Processing credit memos and refunds.
• Raising and sending invoices to customers.
• Posting payments to customer accounts.
• Tracking overdue invoices and following up on them.

Qualifications and Experience

• Must possess a First Degree or its equivalent in Accounting or Finance.
• Professional certification of ICAN or ACCA will be added advantage but not a must.
• Must possess 2 – 3 years post-NYSC working experience in the downstream oil and gas sector of the economy.
• Knowledge of billing & invoicing systems, commercial negotiations, financial management, internal controls/systems development, accounting, auditing, and reporting.
• Must be conversant with all aspects of corporate accounting and all pertinent financial standards, rules, and regulations relating to good financial management.
• Ability to solve problems, exercising good judgment will be an asset.
• Must be of good character with proven impeccable integrity.