{"id":11103,"date":"2025-05-28T15:38:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/job\/manager-finance-credit-legal\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T00:24:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:24:34","slug":"manager-finance-credit-legal","status":"expired","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/?post_type=job_listing&p=11103","title":{"rendered":"Manager: Finance &#8211; Credit Legal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About the job<\/p>\n<p>\tPlans, organize, directs, control and coordinate the pre-legal, legal and bad debt collection activities within the organization by analyzing the book constantly, identify trends or changes with a view to pre-empting problems and developing innovative counter actions which will prevent loss to the business.<\/p>\n<p>Responsibilities<\/p>\n<p>\tInitiate, develop and implement appropriate collection and recovery strategies with long term effectiveness.<br \/>\n\tEnsure that attorneys adhere to all conditions as per negotiated Service Level Agreements.<br \/>\n\tOversee and control the panel of Attorneys \/ call centre\u2019s under his\/her control ensuring that collection targets are met on a monthly basis.<br \/>\n\tSupervise normal credit control functions under his\/her control including allocations, debit- and credit balances etc.<br \/>\n\tMeet with problematic debtors.<br \/>\n\tTraining of staff.<br \/>\n\tAuthorization of financial documents, journals, debit and\/or credit notes within mandate.<br \/>\n\tEnsure that all policies and procedures of the department\/company are adhered to.<br \/>\n\tManage the relevant department\u2019s collection targets on a daily\/weekly\/monthly basis.<br \/>\n\tManage the department\u2019s target with regards to normalized accounts and ensure that all normalized accounts are identified, activated and transferred back to credit control.<br \/>\n\tOversee and control the top 40 legal accounts under his\/her control (Including those of Supervisors) ensuring that relevant risks are identified and reported to Senior Manager: Legal Credit.<br \/>\n\tPrepare monthly handover files (New instructions) to attorneys\/ pre-legal and bad debt call centre\u2019s in accordance with prescribed format provided.<br \/>\n\tPrepare monthly debit order resubmission files in accordance with prescribed format provided.<br \/>\n\tPrepare bulk update requests as and when necessary in accordance with company policy.<br \/>\n\tCalculate\/prepare and submit monthly incentives for department in accordance with company policy.<br \/>\n\tManage, control and oversee the monthly legal handovers received from credit control. Ensure that systems are updated with the relevant process statuses.<br \/>\n\tProvide supervisors with the necessary support with regards to difficult debtors.<br \/>\n\tOversee and control the accounts under his\/her control ensuring that legal credit controllers work on all accounts at least every 14 days.<br \/>\n\tCheck and authorize (within mandate) the relevant financial documents received from legal credit controllers on a daily basis.<br \/>\n\tCheck all invoices for correctness and ensure that supervisor\/s provide all relevant invoices for payment received from attorneys, pre-legal and bad debt call centre\u2019s on a weekly basis and authorize for payment..<br \/>\n\tManage, control and ensure that all payments received from attorneys, pre-legal and bad debt call centre\u2019s are captured from suspense account onto the debtor\u2019s accounts within 24 hours of receipt there off.<\/p>\n<p>Age Analysis: Ensure that:<\/p>\n<p>\tThere are no unallocated credit balances older than 30 days as at month end. (Invoices wrt damages to be raised on a daily basis),<br \/>\n\tThere are no debit balances older than 30 days on all relevant sub segments (Bad Debt).<br \/>\n\tThere is no active billing on legal\/Bad debt accounts.<br \/>\n\tAny ad hoc requests as per General Manager: Legal Credit.<\/p>\n<p>Qualifications and Experience\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\tBachelor&#8217;s Degree in Law<br \/>\n\t4+ years in high volume legal credit collections\u00a0<br \/>\n\tManaging a team<br \/>\n\tAdvance excel<\/p>\n<p>Apply via company website (  ) or<\/p>\n<p>www.linkedin.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_promoted":"","_job_location":"","_application":"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com","_company_name":"Netstar","_company_website":"","_company_tagline":"","_company_twitter":"","_company_video":"","_filled":0,"_featured":0,"_remote_position":0,"_job_salary":"","_job_salary_currency":"","_job_salary_unit":""},"job_listing_region":[11],"job-types":[12],"class_list":{"0":"post-11103","1":"job_listing","2":"type-job_listing","3":"status-expired","4":"hentry","5":"job_listing_region-gauteng","7":"job-type-full-time"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings\/11103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/job_listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"job_listing_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_region?post=11103"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-types?post=11103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}