Sweet Nation Foods Limited is a manufacturer and supplier of specialty food snacks to the Abuja market. Our product line includes over 80 flavors of popcorn. Our mission is to enrich lives and create new and memorable food experiences through our unique and diverse selection of premium quality snacks and confections. We are a small company with a big heart that is obsessed with bringing our clients variety and premium-quality.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Account Receivables Officer

Location: Abuja

Purpose of Position

• Timely and complete completion of payments for supplies

Function

• Coordinating corporate resources to collect payments in meeting with the company’s credit policy and payment collection targets.

Accountabilities
The Stock / Inventory Officer is accountable for:

• Communication of Sweet Nation Foods’ credit policy to customers
• Ascertaining customer payment policy and informing Sweet Nation Foods’ management
• Negotiating, deciding, documenting supply terms for each customer
• Communicating agreed supply terms to the delivery and sales team
• Enforcement of sales/delivery team adherence to supply payment terms for each customer
• Maintaining direct lines of communication with customers for receivables verification and audit
• Verification of address and contact information of new retailers and their staff (both in-state and out-of-state)
• Conducting random periodic receivables verification and audit
• Providing weekly updates to sales/delivery team of accounts receivables (AR) status
• Creating weekly plan and task assignment for sales and delivery team to collect receivables (Dictating operations for sales and delivery team collection of receivables)
• Setting deadlines for sales/delivery team to collect payments
• Prepare reports of accounts receivables periodically (weekly, monthly) and by location
• Following-up on past-due invoices till payments are collected (phone calls, emails, texts, letters, and physical visits)
• Negotiating and settling non-payment disputes with customers efficiently (request for payment letters, sales order summaries, specific customer online payment record)
• Keeping track of all payments outstanding or unpaid by the company’s customers
• Investigation and resolution of unknown online payments
• Reduction of Bad debt
• Prepare periodic reports (weekly/monthly) making forecasts on payment flow
• Formulate tactics and strategies to reduce receivables over short and medium term.

Tasks
Daily:

• Review  of previous day’s supply and payment collection report
• Receive proposed daily supply list from Sales rep
• Review and approve daily supply list and return to sales rep
• Formulate daily payment collection list
• Review online payments entry workbook
• Call, email and text customers with past-due invoices
• Investigate unknown online payments using (5-step unknown payment approach).

Weekly:

• Generation of complete Accounts Receivables statement and aged account
• Generation of Accounts Receivables by State statement
• Generation of Accounts Receivables by Delivery Personnel statement
• Creation of weekly payment-collection plan and lists (with deadlines and staff assignments)
• Creation and issuing of “request for payment” letters (F.C.T and Out-of-State).

Monthly:

• Calculation of Complete Days Sales Outstanding (DSOs)
• Calculation of Days Sales Outstanding by state
• Calculation of Days Sales Outstanding by Delivery Personnel.

Salary
N100,000 – N150,000 Monthly.

Application Closing Date
30th June, 2022.