JOB DESCRIPTION: AR CREDIT CONTROL
Job Title: AR Credit Control
Job Purpose:
The AR Credit Control role is responsible for managing receivables, ensuring timely collections, minimizing credit risk, and maintaining healthy cash flow.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Accounts Receivable Management
- Monitor customer accounts and ensure timely collection
- Maintain AR aging and follow up on overdue balances
- Reconcile customer accounts
- Submission of LC to bank, Co-ordinate Bank guarantees to Customers
2. Credit Risk Management
- Assess customer creditworthiness
- Set and review credit limits
- Monitor exposure and enforce policies
3. Collections & Coordination
- Follow up with customers
- Collaborate with sales teams
- Resolve disputes
4. Cash Flow Optimization
- Reduce DSO
- Support cash forecasting
5. Reporting & Compliance
- Prepare AR reports
- Ensure compliance and audit readiness
6. Process Improvement
- Identify automation opportunities
- Improve efficiency
Key Performance Indicators:
- DSO
- Aging profile
- Collection effectiveness
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting
- 15 years’ experience in AR/Credit Control
Skills:
- Strong AR knowledge
- Communication and negotiation
- ERP systems and Excel
Detailed Description for AR-Credit Control
AR / Credit control functions:
- Preparation of monthly AR ageing report
- Circulating AR ageing report to sales team with proper collection target.
- Forecast the expected collection target beginning of the month and ensure money is collected.
- Closely liaise with Sales Team/Customer Service Order Execution/Customer to ensure Invoices are accounted/bills are uploaded timely
- Handling of Bank Guarantees
- Submission of Bill of Exchange to Bank timely and ensure LC acceptance
- Handling of LC discounting
- Review and approval of all the contract: Check the payment terms, Credit Limits, financial risk,
overdue position/previous payment history of the customer
- Credit Limit monitoring: regular revision of credit limits of customers as per Credit Policy and hold release of account. Ensure necessary approvals are in place
- Dispute management: Handling of issuing credit note/debit note, GST related issues with respect to supply invoices and ensure necessary approval.
- Balance confirmation: Regular reconciliation of customer balances.
- Cash application: Ensure accurate recording of customer payment, pass necessary TDS/GST TDS entry in the books and reconciliation of AR sub-ledger to general ledger.
- Handling Audit, preparation of various schedule respect the AR
- Regular monitoring of CRM out of process cases
- Tred’s platform onboarding
- Creation of necessary provision of doubtful debts, ECL metrics
- LD exposure & passing necessary LD entry.
- Passing write off entries related to AR not collectables after necessary approvals.
Shared Service Invoicing - SIEC/IAT/Sales & Marketing supported Intercompany related activities:
- Monthly generation of SIEC/IAT Invoices as per agreed per hour rate.
- Preparation of consolidated report related to SIEC
- Submission of statement of account related Intercompany transaction related AR
- Follow-up for payment collection
- Maintain proper record and transaction related to ECB transactions
- Regular ECB return submission to AD banker.
Treasury related activities:
- Rollover of STL loan
- Onboarding of current Authorized signatory
- Changes in Bank Authorized signatory
- Automation of Import Online Payment
- Handling BG and LC related activities
- Form OPI submission
- Processing of employees share redemption
- Handling RBI related compliance with respect ESOP, Capital Infusion, LEI etc
- ECB return
Monthly reports:
1. Cash flow preparation
2. Preparation of AR ageing report
3. Export sales report
4. Intercompany closing balance
5. LD exposure
6. ECB loan re-instated statement
7. Various others Audit schedule
📌 AR Credit Control (Kolkata)
🏢 RGBSI
📍 Kolkata